Today, there are many smart home solutions available in the market that no one even imagined before. These smart home solutions ensure complete protection, security, and optimum utilization of space and devices in the home.

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4. Delivering
Pragmatic,
Functional,
and Organized
Home Solutions
e are living in a world where everyone prefers
Wsmart things. People like to control everything
with a touch of a button. Everyone wants
smartwatches, smart machines, smart bikes, smart cars,
smart devices, smart homes, etc. All these smarter things
are obviously attractive and increase our comfort to a great
degree. With the help of technology and using all the
creative intelligence, it is possible to create smarter things
and enjoy the world in a befitting way. The need for smart
things will stay longer in the increasingly smarter world.
Today, there are many smart home solutions available in the
market that no one even imagined before. These smart
home solutions ensure complete protection, security, and
optimum utilization of space and devices in the home. The
companies designing these solutions constantly innovate
and come up with more exciting devices. They understand
that technology is a tool, and they expertly utilize
technology to create smart home solutions that provide
happier user experiences.
These businesses also consider the environmental and
sustainability aspect while designing solutions. They strive
to create home solutions in a way that there will be the
minimum requirement of the utilization of energy or
electricity so as to minimize carbon emissions. They also
consider the designing aspect as well as an aesthetic
experience. They use automation and innovative methods to
deliver pragmatic, functional, beautiful, and smarter home
solutions.
Home automation makes the home highly secure and easy
to access. With certified smart home devices, these
companies make the lives of people and non-experts in the
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5. home effortless and bring them utmost ease. People
in the home can improve their functionality,
productivity, and overall efficiency with services
from smart home solution providers. They can save
their most precious time, resources, and money with
the smarter and more optimum services provided by
expert smart home solution providers. These
companies make the home more organized.
With the help of easy-to-use new-age devices and
smarter apps, the companies providing smart home
solutions beautify the functionality of the home. In
this way, through a variety of ways smart home
solution providers improve the overall satisfaction
and happiness of the people. Such companies adopt
the latest methods and constantly improve the
solutions they offer to the clients, thus sustaining
their value in the market.
In this edition of The 10 Best Performing Smart
Home Solution Providers, 2022, we have enlisted
companies that are experts in providing smart home
solutions and are improving the overall functionality,
security, experiences, and productivity of consumers
Flip through the pages to learn about these
companies and their exceptional offerings. Also, in
between, you will come across CxO standpoints by
industry experts and creative articles penned down
by our in-house editorial team.
Happy Reading!
sharad@insightssuccess.com
Sharad Chitalkar

6. Leader’s
Viewpoint
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How Storytelling can
Enhance Brand Identity?
Articles
Homes
Smartified
18
The Next Big Change
Promising
Future
28
The Future
of IOT
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CXO

7. Aprilaire
08
Healthy Air in Every Home
Netatmo
20
A Step Towards your
Smart Home
Prescient
30
Digitally Transformation the
Construction Industry
BrickControl
12
Facilitating Total Management
of Construction Projects
Easily and Ef?ciently
Origami
24
Creating a Green Energy
World with Innovation
YI Technology
32
Making Lives of People Safer, Richer and More
Fun with Smart Cameras and Computer Vision

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9. Brief
Company Name
Prescient is building a unique technology platform that is
revolutionizing the building environment.
Brandon Glancy,
Corporate Training
Manager
AprilAire has been providing a variety of Indoor Air Quality
solutions and technology since 1938.
Origami is helping to build a green energy world, powered by
smart technology.
Nexus 21 is the leading provider of systems that put technology
in motion.
AprilAire
aprilaire.com
Tespack is a technology company specialised in the
development of mobile energy solutions and wearable
technology for off-grid purposes.
Swann is a global leader in do-it-yourself video surveillance,
consumer electronics and security-centric solutions for homes
and businesses.
BrickControl is a “cloud-based” application that helps you
manage all of your projects in an easy, simple, and efficient
way.
YI Technology is the leading provider of advanced video,
imaging and computer vision technologies.
Featured Person
BrickControl
brickcontrol.com
Netatmo
netatmo.com
Nexus 21
tvlift.com
Nice S.p.A.
niceforyou.com
Origami Energy
origamienergy.com
Prescient Co. Inc.
prescientco.com
Swann
swann.com
Tespack
tespack.com
YI Technology
yitechnology.com
David Jiménez,
CEO
Fred Potter,
Founder
Cory Lovett,
CEO
Pete Haikio,
CEO
Peter Bance,
CEO
Magued Eldaief,
President and CEO
Michael Lucas,
CEO
Mario Aguilera,
Founder and CEO
Sean Da,
CEO & Founder
Netatmo is a leading smart home company creating simple,
beautiful smart solutions for a safer and more comfortable
home.
Nice is an Italian multinational reference company in the Home
Automation, Home Security and Smart Home sector.

10. Healthy Air in Every Home
Air quality in our homes has been a growing risk the
past few decades as tighter building envelopes
have decreased the amount of fresh, clean air
circulating in the house. Add a global pandemic on top of
those issues and 2021 heard a concerted call for Healthy Air
from homeowners, buyers, and builders as well as the
service people who manage a home’s HVAC and air quality
systems. To answer this growing call for Healthy Air,
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Aprilaire has produced the Aprilaire Healthy Air System
for residential use to help in the fight against virus-sized
particles and provide clean, Healthy Air.
Headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin, Aprilaire has
provided premium Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) solutions and
technology to North American customers since 1938.
Brandon Glancy, the Corporate Training Manager at
Aprilaire, helps thousands of HVAC professionals grow
their business by learning the ins and outs of selling Indoor
Air Quality solutions to homeowners. He has been a highly
effective motivational speaker and business coach for over
two decades. He provides an inspirational element that gets
right to the heart of the matter. That heart is passion and
persistence.
We at Insights Success caught up with Aprilaire in our
expedition to find ‘The 10 Best Performing Smart Home
Solution Providers of 2021.’ We talked with Brandon to
gain in-depth knowledge about Aprilaire’s innovative
approach to contributing to clean air.
Let us go through their journey.
The Brief Synopsis
Indoor Air Quality is more important than ever. Aprilaire
has built an unparalleled reputation as the provider of
choice among the millions of homeowners and tens of
thousands of professional contractors who use their
products every day.
Aprilaire is on a mission to deliver Healthy Air to every
home.
They continue to be inspired by the needs of consumers and
the proficiency of professional contractors to create, design,
and build innovative Healthy Air solutions, including
whole-house humidifiers, dehumidifiers, air cleaners, and
fresh air ventilation. They have a long tradition of
developing professional-grade Healthy Air solutions.
Top-Notch Products
Aprilaire’s strength is that they realize no single product
can solve every home’s individual requirement for Healthy
Air. Working with HVAC contractors and builders,
Aprilaire has developed a suite of products to meet the
various installation applications and geographic variables
that must be considered.
Aprilaire has brought these mechanical solutions (air
filtration, ventilation, humidification, and dehumidification)
into the palm of the consumers’ hand through a line of Wi-
Fi connected IAQ controls as well.
Best-in-Class
Aprilaire prides itself on education and training for all
business partners, be it HVAC contractors, builders, or
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11. We help
people
breathe
Healthy Air.
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basement and crawl space specialists. It helps them
understand the technical details of its products, their
installation, and the consumer features and benefits that
allow them to leverage these products.
Dedicated Work-Culture
Aprilaire is committed to understanding their customers as
well as their customers’ customers. They design and build
products and provide training and support for all
touchpoints: distribution, contractor, homebuilder, and
homeowner.
Implementation of Modern Technologies
Healthy Air solutions were traditionally relegated to the
mechanical closet, basement, or attic. Consumers had
limited interaction with the products and were therefore
somewhat unaware of what they had in their home and how
to use it, explained Brandon.
Using IAQ controls that connect wirelessly through an app
to Aprilaire products and sensors creates a more direct
connection to the consumer because they interact with
products on a more familiar platform – their mobile device.
The Next Big Change
Brandon states there is an increased awareness of the need
to manage moisture in the air before introducing it to the
living space. The air conditioner is designed to control
temperature, and therefore will not manage the latent load
in markets where heat and humidity is high; even when the
Brandon Glancy
Corporate Training Manager
Aprilaire
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12. temperature is mild, that increased moisture can lead to
mold, mildew, odors, and discomfort.
Aprilaire’s Ventilating Dehumidifier (E100V + 8190FF) is a
new product designed with contractors and builders in mind
to provide a simple, efficient, and effective solution for
delivering filtered and conditioned air to the home to create
a healthy environment. Like all Aprilaire products, the
Ventilating Dehumidifier connects to their line of smart
IAQ controls and thermostats, making homeowner
management simple and convenient.
The COVID-19 pandemic brought high-efficiency filtration
to the forefront of consumers’ concerns. MERV 13 filtration
is becoming a standard among builders committed to
delivering healthy homes due to the high capture rate of
particulate PM2.5, the size considered to be most harmful
to human health that includes viruses and bacteria.
Helping Hand in the Community
Aprilaire also closely partners with the American Lung
Association. Aprilaire 4” air filters are included in the
*
American Lung Association Proud Partner program. They
also support the American Lung Association Fight For Air
Climb.
Brandon says, “The funds raised support research,
education, and programs to help the millions of Americans
impacted by asthma, COPD, lung cancer and other lung
diseases.”
“Aprilaire is also active in our home community of
Madison, Wisconsin, with employees donating time and
money to countless efforts and organizations, including St.
Vincent de Paul, an organization that fights hunger and
homelessness,” Brandon concludes.
*
The American Lung Association does not endorse any
product, device, or service.
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14. David Jiménez
CEO
BrickControl
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15. BrickControl
Facilitating Total Management of Construction
Projects Easily and Efficiently
With a mission to improve the operations of the
construction sector, facilitating the management
of the entities and entities in charge of
developing and directing works projects, SHM created the
easiest construction management software to use,
BrickControl.
BrickControl is a cloud-based application that helps
professionals and companies in managing all of their
projects in an easy, simple, and efficient way.
We at Insights Success caught up with David Jiménez,
CEO of the BrickControl, to learn more about the company
and its contribution to the construction sector.
Improving the Operations of the Construction Sector
BrickControl is a web software in the cloud for works
management, which allows the creation of budgets with all
the necessary structure, such as chapters, items, and units;
certifications, planning through Gantt charts, orders,
invoices, work reports, deviation control, warehouses, and
powerful indicators of the multi-projects that can be
managed in parallel in the software.
The software is developed with the latest technology that
allows access from anywhere and navigation devices. It
also allows the protection of information through an access
control system that allows maintaining a completely
controlled and secure environment. Additionally, it uses one
of the best servers in the world, such as the Amazon web
services servers in Europe, to guarantee all its clients the
special care of their data so that the information is backed
up instantly and can be accessed at any moment.
BrickControl is software designed to handle construction
projects of all sizes, from small remodeling or construction
to projects that involve teams at a global level. It has multi-
language, multi-currency, multi-company, and multi-user
features that make it a very intuitive and easy-to-use
platform.
Having a Leading System in Construction Technology
Among BrickControl’s first-level features, it can count
these that represent great solutions for the management of
works projects of its users:
BrickControl is a SaaS-based Cloud solution that keeps up
with a construction ERP system. It allows the total
management of construction projects easily and efficiently
and thus, is considered as a Leading System in Construction
Technology.
Principal functions:
• Estimates, Project Progress Reports, Budget
management, Certifications, Cost analysis, Access
control, Warehouse management, Resource
management, Unit price management, Customer and
supplier management, Document management,
Progress control, assignments, deviations, invoices;
and more.
Main features:
• No facilities or infrastructure payments. Just subscribe
and log in.
• Developed with the latest HTML5 technology.
• Use of APIs to make business management and
integrations more powerful.
• Multi-language, multi-currency, multi-company, multi-
user.
• Progressive Web Apps System. (PWA).
• High capacity for integrations due to API REST
technology.
• Exceptional capabilities like Measurement Software.
• Applicable to project versatility.
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16. Integrations:
Integration with financial products of the SAP R / 3 type
such as Microsoft Dynamics 365, plus other types of
applications with which BrickControl integrates, such as:
• Accounting software
• Quality and environment
• Helpdesk
• Management of real estate, promoters, and assets
In addition, BrickControl has a REST API that allows full
integration with any other type of software.
Innovating Based on Collected Experience and Needs of
Users
David states that according to the opinions of the clients,
the sense of service and attention is a primary factor.
BrickControl has 30 years of experience in the construction
sector. Its secret to keeping the product efficient in the face
of the changing needs of users has been to adapt to the
needs of users and innovate based on recommendations and
collected experience.
In addition to staying close to the public, this practice has
allowed BrickControl to evolve successfully in such a
competitive sector. It is proud of the multiple recognitions
obtained as the best technological solution for construction
in 2021.
“We pride ourselves
on having one of the
best customer
support teams, and
one of the best teams
of software
development
experts; these teams
are without a doubt
the reason why
clients consistently
choose us.”
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17. Being Transparent, Adaptable, and Passionate
Transparency has allowed BrickControl to inspire
confidence in the market and maintain it over time because
customers know that they are not going to get surprises in
the provision of the service or the execution of the system.
Besides, BrickControl is closely linked with its users and
their experiences of use and management of works; it
constantly obtains learning that transforms into a
continuous evolution of its product.
Its team is characterized by feeling passion for the area in
which it works. This commitment can be seen in
BrickControl’s final product, and it is the delivery itself that
allows it to anticipate situations and venture to innovate.
Providing Customers with Modern Software
David anticipates that we are going to experience strong
growth in the construction software market. Many
companies want to modernize their systems, the time is
right, and companies like BrickControl have been working
for many years to provide customers with the modern
software they need. At BrickControl, everyone is preparing
to meet the demand that will be experienced in the coming
years. Depending on the country, it will also help its
customers obtain financial support for the digital
transformation prepared in different countries.
BrickControl aspires to continuous growth, to continue to
be a reliable and useful solution for its users, and a leading
solution in the market.
Hear it from the Client
“Working with BrickControl allows us to see a quick and
accurate analysis of the costs of our works, as well as the
imminent integration of data into our“ review ”accounting
software. Metro7 is a leading company in singular building
and sustainable construction. We decided to work with
BrickControl despite being used to working with other cost
programs for many years because, in addition to being in
the cloud and being able to access it from any device, we
realized that it gave a very detailed cost analysis to
everyone. The projects. We work as a team often because
we all use BrickControl at the same time. In addition,
BrickControl's decisive decision to become part of Metro7
was based on how we have been able to integrate data with
the accounting program, so that in administration we do
not do double work. By including invoices for expenses and
income, you transfer them to accounting, without having to
re-enter the data. But we would like to highlight the
efficiency of the entire BrickControl team, they are
professionals who have always known how to solve any
problem through online chat or instant email.”- @
metro7_construccionsostenible, a well-known industry
customer
h ps://ww .brickcontrol.com/
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18. About the Author
From the start-up community to
the classroom and now in my
companies Schmooz Media and
Daddys Digest, Zoë Share values
creating meaningful
relationships, helping businesses
add value to real people -
specifically families, parents and
children. Her passions for
business and education stem
from her belief that
communication and
collaboration can start a positive
conversation and impact
values-based businesses
bottom lines.
Leader’s Viewpoint
Zoë Share
CEO
Daddy’s Digest
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19. that would appeal to them so that they are getting value out
of your stories and experiences.
Right now, I’m writing for you and I’m making
assumptions about you - the reader - as I write. I assume
you’re interested in business, you are curious about how an
entrepreneur who has had 2 companies before the age of 32
years old, with 2 kids under the age of 4 makes it work. You
want to learn from my subject matter expertise (education,
language and business) and you want to feel like you didn’t
waste your time reading this.
A platform like Daddy’s Digest is so strong because it’s
made up of these vulnerable moments and opportunities for
connection. DD is amplifying the voices of fathers to
encourage the radical involvement of fathers and father
figures in their kids' lives and teaching them how to
navigate fatherhood. We focus on stories from the audience
about self-discovery, mental health, gender and sexuality
crisis issues, divorce, and doing the work so you can have
the hard conversations (and all the fun) with your family.
The staff at DD also tell their own stories which are part of
our brand’s identity. It shows people that we also go
through these problems and are also looking to build a
community to help one another. With Daddy’s Digest,
people (partners, readers and friends) can tell that we are
more concerned with helping fathers to navigate fatherhood
more than trying to get money out of them.
So can storytelling enhance a brand’s identity? Absolutely.
My advice is not to tell a made-up story, but instead search
yourself and your colleagues for the true stories that make
up the passion and expertise in your company. How did you
all end up at this company? Why do you care about the
work you’re doing and how do you live your learnings day
to day? This is the stuff that makes people want to know
more about you and your products. Remember, if you don’t
care about what you’re talking about or sharing, no one else
will care. I challenge you to think deeply about the stories
you are telling and encourage you to tell the stories you
want to read about. The more I lean into that, the better I
feel about the way I am spending my time each day.
I’m going to tell you a story. The story of how I came to
acquire Daddy’s Digest, when I was 8 months
pregnant. It all started at the beginning of the
pandemic. My husband and I were in lockdown in Toronto
Canada with our 2-year-old daughter, and I was beginning
to feel like the work I was doing was not as meaningful as I
wanted it to be. I loved helping brands determine their core
values so that they could live them in their social media
marketing, but I felt stuck in the day to day and wanted to
serve my bigger purpose more directly- helping parents
show up for their children. I set out to co-author a children’s
book - and worked with some
ABC Stay Home with Me -
amazing contributors - illustrators and printers - to make it
come to life, so we could all raise money for front line
workers. After doing this, I knew that writing and
publishing was my future.
One of the people who bought my book for his child was
the founder of Daddy’s Digest - a dad centered publication
with over 850,000 in its audience. I fell in love with the
brand, so much so that the founder asked me if I wanted to
buy it and carry it forward. It was a dream come true, one
that I had never even dared to dream until I started writing
and actively creating again. I was newly pregnant with my
second child, but that didn’t stop us from starting the
negotiations and figuring out how I could make this
publication my future.
I have always loved writing and I’ve also always loved a
good novel - whether fact or fiction, a good story hooks me.
After pursuing an English degree, a Teaching degree and
finally going to business school, it was second nature to me
to talk about a business with accessible language and
storytelling, so that people could feel connected to it. I
always say that marketing is where education and
storytelling meet and that’s why it became my career.
It’s not rocket science - telling a story makes your audience
engage more with you. In the case you don’t have an
audience, or are looking to grow one, it’s vital that you
think exactly about who you’re writing for. If you or your
brand are experts on environmentally-conscious products
and your audience is made up of single moms with a mid-
level income, you probably want to talk more about topics
How Storytelling can
Enhance Brand Identity?
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20. he advancements of the latest technologies have
Tgiven us access to everywhere, and home is just
another addition to it. With the deployment of
smart devices in our homes, we can do multiple tasks. It
feels similar to living in a parallel world. Today's smart
home technologies serve at their best to take care of our
homes. The features that come along with these products
make everything look easy. So, what exactly are its
features, and how does it work? Let us have a look at it!
Smart Energy Consumption: In today's modern era, energy
consumption plays a significant role, and thus, companies
are making smart energy systems a top priority. It is the
process of making devices energy-efficient and focusing on
sustainable energy sources to promote eco-friendliness and
drive down costs. This investment in smart energy systems
poses benefits to consumers, the environment, and energy
providers at large.
Smart meters: Smart homes are well-insulated and protect
homes with a cut back on energy use. Getting a smart meter
has become paramount today. Unlike traditional meters,
smart meters provide much more detailed results about
your power usage. With the detailed insight on your home's
energy usage, it opens doors to finding new, cost-saving
ways to cut down on your energy usage and make your
home more efficient.
The Next
Big Change
Homes Smartified
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21. Home Automation: In simple terms, home automation refers
to the automatic and electronic control of household
features, activities, and appliances. It can easily control the
features of your home with the help of the internet to make
life more convenient, secure and even spend less on
household bills.
Achieving Greater Heights
The studies suggest that the smart home market is projected
to grow from 84.5 US billion dollars to 138.9 billion by
2026. Looking at this increasing need for smart home
products, companies are building more smart home
solutions to meet the growing need for various smart
applications. Additionally, the covid pandemic has
highlighted the importance of concerns such as health and
hygiene. Thus, people are investing more in the deployment
of smart homes solutions, keeping their home environment
clean and hygienic.
Many More to Follow
Today, many companies are experiencing strong growth in
the smart home industry. Indeed, it is the right time to
invest in it, as the demand will increase in the coming
years. This growth will continue to grow to become a
reliable and useful solution for consumers as well as the
industry.
Smart home products are making everyone's life easier
while improving well-being at home. The latest addition is
the smartphone; it has aimed to improve more comfort in
our lives. You can access and update each room from
anywhere through the smartphone application.
The future advancement of smart homes with the
technologies like AI and the Cloud will grab more attention
from the people. Smart home companies will become the
next big thing. From cities to the entire nation, everyone
will be committed to using smart platforms in their lives, as
the transformation has already begun.
Solar Energy: The increasing demand for solar panels has
resulted in decreased energy costs. This is something that
will overtake the energy crisis with optimizing renewable
energy. Additionally, if you've got old, outdated appliances,
you might consider an upgrade for your home. The energy-
efficient lights can cut down on energy usage while
providing even brighter, more powerful illumination.
Security System: A fully automated security system in your
smart home can boost your safety and get timely alerts for
any suspicious activity, ensuring your house and family
members remain safe. It uses the Wi-Fi network to connect
entry sensors and sirens to devices like smart door locks,
smart thermostats, and smart lightbulbs. These devices can
talk to each other and integrate with your security systems
to make life more convenient and more secure.
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22. A Step Towards your Smart Home
Ahealthy indoor environment helps you to feel
comfortable, impacting your productivity and
ability to concentrate on work. When it comes to
home, a lot goes around - things need to be under control.
From finding a notebook to your phone, keeping track of
things can be a hectic task. Thanks to Netatmo and their
healthy home coach monitors that can keep a check-in of
every room from your phone. It is a leading smart home
company creating simple, beautiful smart solutions for a
safer and more comfortable home. It also monitors indoor
air quality with its devices and accessories giving one
visible access at every corner of one's house. So, build your
smart home with Netatmo.
To find more about it, an interview was held between
Insights Success and Netatmo that answers all the questions
on the smart home industry, making life easier.
Below are the highlights of the interview.
Give us a brief overview of Netatmo, its mission, and the
key aspects of its strong foothold in the Consumer
Electronics industry.
Netatmo is a leading smart home company that creates
simple and smart products for a safer, more comfortable
home.
Since its launch in 2012, Netatmo has been committed to
designing products that are:
- 100% inclusive: no subscription fees or extra costs
- 100% secure: data protection and privacy guaranteed
- 100% upgradeable: free upgrades and features added
regularly
To date, Netatmo has launched 13 smart home devices and
accessories. Helpful and easy to use, these products make
everyone's daily life easier while improving well-being at
home.
In addition to its consumer product lines, the company
collaborates with key leaders of the building industry
through its “with Netatmo” program to develop smart
solutions that integrate into the home's infrastructure.
In 2018, Netatmo joined the Legrand Group, a global
specialist in electrical and digital building infrastructures.
Our baseline: Netatmo, same home, just smarter.
Describe your top-notch solutions that address the need
of your customers.
Our products are divided into four categories of products
aimed at improving the comfort and the security of their
users.
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23. “At Netatmo, we want to
keep creating products
which are useful, with a
beautiful design which
fits into any home, easy to
install and to use.”
- SECURITY
With our Smart Cameras, Smart Sensors, Smart Video
Doorbells, and Smart Smoke Detectors, our clients' homes
are safe – whether they are in it or away on holidays.
Alarms can be automatically triggered in case of an event.
However, the users will also receive a notification on their
smartphone so that they can react immediately in case of an
emergency.
- ENERGY
Our Smart Thermostat and Radiator Valves allow our
clients to increase comfort at home while saving energy.
The heating programs are adapted to every room, easy to
update from the smartphone application.
- WEATHER
Our Smart Weather Station is great for anyone who is
looking to know more about his environment. Temperature,
humidity, rain, and wind (thanks to its accessories, the
Smart Anemometer and the Smart Rain Gauge): both the
indoor and the outdoor data are available in the app. There's
also a community-based Weathermap with all the Netatmo
Weather Stations in the world.
- WITH NETATMO
We also develop products and smart solutions with key
players of the home industry such as VELUX, Muller, or
Bubendorff. Smart shutters, heating solutions.
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24. What makes Netatmo a preferred choice among your
clientele over other competitors?
All of our products are subscription-free. Most of our
competitors sell products with a subscription fee to access
their videos or history. With Netatmo, when the client buys
the products, there is no extra cost. We also upgrade our
products regularly au automatically: we don't incentivize
our clients to buy new products. We expect them to use
them for years and years.
Security is also an important aspect of our company: video
storage is always available locally on a microSD card when
most of our competitors use the cloud, which is less secure.
With our facial recognition feature, family members or
relatives can choose not to be recorded by the Indoor
Camera.
From a business leadership perspective, what is your
opinion on the impact of the current pandemic on the
Consumer Electronics sector and the related market?
Due to the pandemic, people have been staying much more
at home, and they have invested more in improving it. The
Smart Home industry has benefited from this. Our Smart
Indoor Air Quality Monitor analyses the indoor
environment and alerts its user when he should be opening
windows to air the room (when the level of CO2 is too
high, for example).
This product has known great success in this time of the
pandemic.
Describe the values that drive your organization.
Ÿ Innovation & Simplicity
Ÿ There is always a simpler way to innovate; it is up to us
to find it!
Ÿ Common sense & Ambition
Ÿ We are always looking to run the extra mile whilst
keeping our feet on the ground.
Ÿ Empowerment & Kindness
Ÿ Take your responsibilities seriously, and we will support
you.
Ÿ Excellence & Friendliness
Ÿ Excellence is our goal, to be achieved on a friendly
playing field.
In your opinion, what could be the future of the
Consumer Electronics market post the COVID-19
pandemic? And how are you strategizing Netatmo for
that future?
The consumer electronics market will keep growing: smart
products are going to keep becoming more and more
democratized and easily available in terms of price and
accessibility. We are now all equipped with a standard
remote: our smartphones.
In what ways have you or Netatmo contributed to the
community?
Our Weathermap is a good example of our community-
oriented mindset. Thanks to the data gathered from our
Smart Weather Stations, not only can the users know the
temperature anywhere in the world, but some
meteorological institutions also use it to increase the
accuracy of their weather forecasts. It is the case of
Norway's YR, for example.
What are your future aspirations? Where do you see
your company in the next five years?
Netatmo is now part of the Legrand group: in the next five
years, we will use the group's presence all over the world to
keep expanding our business.
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26. Creating a Green Energy World with Innovation
he world is approaching towards the energy
Tsystem which will continue in the future, a shift
for a more sustainable energy system. An
important part of this approach will be the deployment of
smart and green energy solutions in the business and
household sector. Origami, a company that strives to
mitigate its carbon footprint and follows global best
practices related to Environmental, Social and
Governance, provides software solutions through its
platform, to help energy companies thrive amid more
complex and volatile energy markets.
Peter Bance, CEO of Origami, came up with the
concept for the company 12 years ago. He saw that
companies were investing billions into energy assets but
that once deployed, those assets were not being managed
in a smart way. The need for this smart management, but
also its complexity, would grow quickly with more solar
and wind energy. Out of this sprang the idea for Origami
– an energy technology company which would help
inform and execute the thousands of decisions that
needed to be made for a renewable-centric electricity
system to run smoothly and efficiently.
In an interview with Insights Success, Peter Bance
exemplified the significance of digital solutions to
accelerate the energy transformation.
Below are the highlights of the interview:
Describe your company and its energy solutions
which address all the needs of your customers.
Origami provides real-time energy optimization
solutions to the energy market, operating at the forefront
of the global energy transformation.
As renewables grow and energy markets shift closer to
real-time, powerful technology is required. Origami’s
modular suite of real-time, machine learning solutions
enables energy companies to quickly make and execute
informed decisions across physical and financial
positions, and to do so at scale. Real-time monitoring
and intelligent control of large numbers and types of
energy assets enables energy traders to respond quickly
to changes in the energy market, increase their
profitability, access new revenue opportunities and
improve trading positions.
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27. Origami is defining a new category in the global energy
sector with mission-critical software products to
accelerate the transition to a net-zero world.
How does your energy solution differ from others?
Energy traders already use a lot of specialist software to
help them make decisions. A big problem is that these
are often difficult to integrate – which limits the quality
of information that’s available to make decisions quickly
and at scale. Origami offers an interoperable suite of
real-time energy optimization tools for energy companies
to select what they need today, that can be integrated
with more modules in the future. Origami provides better
visibility for energy companies, with real-time
monitoring and visualization of assets and markets. We
also provide tools to decide how to use this information
with modules that enable dynamic opportunity
identification and decision support. We can also enable
the automated execution of asset and market instructions.
Origami offers the versatility for energy companies to
integrate their own data and deploy bespoke machine
learning models on our platform at scale.
Give a detailed description of the featured person’s
influence over energy optimization solutions industry.
Peter has spent his career focused on building high
growth ventures and technology commercialization,
primarily in the cleantech sector. He was CEO of a
combined heat and power business that he took public on
the London Stock Exchange (AIM) and then became
Entrepreneur in Residence at Octopus Investments
working with their venture capital team and renewable
energy business, before he founded Origami.
Alongside his role at Origami, Peter sits on several
bodies which bring together senior business, government
Peter Bance,
CEO
Origami
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28. and academic voices from across the UK energy
industry. He is a non-exec director on the Energy
Systems Catapult – set up to accelerate the energy
transition by applying expert ‘whole-systems’ thinking,
and of the Energy Research Partnership – which
provides high-level leadership to UK energy research.
He is also a member of the UK Government’s Smart
System Forum – a group of senior level experts and
stakeholders in smart technologies, new business models
and the energy system.
Could you throw some light on company’s mission
and vision statement?
Ÿ Our vision: A green energy world, powered by smart
technology.
Ÿ Our mission: To provide the time-critical visibility,
decision-making and execution solutions required in
an increasingly green energy system.
How are advance technologies bringing disruption in
energy industry?
Energy industries around the world are undergoing huge
disruption from new technologies – Renewables, storage,
electric vehicles. The aim of course is to reduce our
global carbon emissions, but these technologies are
challenging for energy systems built largely upon coal
and gas. Digital technology solutions aren’t really the
disrupter here – they are providing the solution for
energy systems not only to adapt, but to embrace and
profit from these changes.
What is the greatest challenges energy industry
facing and how are they best dealt with
The energy transition presents a huge challenge, and big
opportunities. The emerging system is faster, more
complex and interconnected. As weather increasingly
drives supply and demand, more decisions need to be
made shortly before delivery. With renewable generation
at its heart, the new energy system needs intelligent
technology at its head.
Today’s tools were designed for a slower world. Manual
workarounds, siloed information and batched processes
limit the capability of energy companies to respond as
the system speeds up.
We need a whole new approach using machine learning
to optimise the use of energy in real-time; Real-time
energy optimisation modules that integrate by design.
Automated workflows, open frameworks for innovation,
versatile microservices, configurable interfaces,
delivering the information you need, when you need it.
What technologies are you leveraging to make your
solutions more resourceful?
Our platform is hosted on the cloud (AWS). We are
building machine learning, Big Data solutions – a few of
the technologies we are leveraging are Kafka and
Cassandra.
Real-time energy
optimisation software
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30. The Future
of IoT
Promising Future
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31. wenty years ago, no one would have imagined how
Tthe Internet and Technology could transform our
lives and the way we communicate, work, and
socialize. Today, with the power of technology and the
internet, the entire world is at our fingertips. Evolving
technologies and the internet is providing us with
unprecedented connectivity. Latest technologies like
Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain Technology, the Internet
of Things (IoT), Big Data are changing the game in the
business world.
Internet of Things (IoT) technology connects smart
electronic devices to the internet. It lets smart devices send,
communicate, receive and interpret information from
connected devices from any part of the world in real-time.
The fascinating part is it works to make sustainable ways of
living and working. There are incredible opportunities for
an organization that adopts the IoT technology early.
Organizations can transform their businesses by leveraging
IoT technology, and they can make significant profits by
delivering advanced services to clients.
Today, people can't imagine the world without mobile
phones. We cannot deny the possibility of most of the
functions in the future by using IoT technology. A future
where all objects would not be connected to the internet is
tough to imagine. Manufacturers have already begun
incorporating IoT in cars, cities, smart home devices, and
factories, and the use of IoT in most of the devices is
continuing to grow rapidly.
There are some challenges as well with using IoT
technology, like security issues and data privacy concerns,
but those can be resolved in the future. The use of IoT by
businesses will continue to grow to achieve smarter
business goals.
IoT is increasingly useful with technologies AI, Big data
analytics. And by coupling IoT with evolving technologies,
businesses can derive many benefits. Organizations can
progress significantly by using these technologies, and the
most advanced solutions can be made available to the
citizens by improving the services.
Besides, IoT will reshape the industrial sector by its huge
potential to improve all types of services. Business leaders
should recognize the potential of this technology and adopt
smart technology and prepare for the shift in the business
domain since IoT will be an essential part of business
processes in the future. IoT will also be increasingly useful
in developing autonomous vehicles and health monitoring
systems. Smart use of IoT technologies can give businesses
a competitive edge, and they can save money by building
software solutions rapidly using cloud IoT accelerators. It
will help businesses maximize efficiency and increase
productivity from their manufacturing components and
resources. This will lead to high economic value for
businesses that adopt IoT technology.
IoT will also play a significant role in bringing valuable
improvements in mass personalization, cybersecurity,
unprecedented connectivity, and smart healthcare systems.
It has the potential to reshape the lives of people on
different levels. Businesses should adopt IoT technology to
stay relevant in the business world. The potential of the
technology to transform businesses is limited only by our
capacity to imagine.
IoT will continue to provide great advantages such as
connectivity, efficiency, health, fitness, wellness, making
life on earth more sustainable, personalizing web
experience, etc. The phenomenal growth and adoption of
the Internet of Things by different businesses itself is
evidence that businesses should not neglect the potential of
this technology.
Moreover, IoT will also play a significant role in controlling
climate change by coming up with smarter options to save
energy resources and minimize environmental threats.
IoT is still in its beginning phases, and we can anticipate the
integration of many devices with many applications in the
years to come to improve people's daily lives and make
businesses run more smoothly.
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34. Techn l gy
Making Lives of People Safer, Richer and More Fun
with Smart Cameras and Computer Vision
o o
e live in a world filled with smart devices from
Wphones, watches, TVs, and many more.
Creating smart homes with smart lifestyle
features is now the new normal that makes people's lives
safer, thoughtful, enriching, and more enjoyable with the
evolving need of people. YI Technology sought its
inspiration by a singular, bold vision of a future to provide
people with a smarter lifestyle to assist them in their daily
tasks. It is powered by widespread, intelligent video
technology, where smart cameras and computer vision will
make people's lives safer, richer, and more fun. YI
Technology's mission is to make advanced, practical AI
vision solutions affordable and accessible for consumers
and businesses. It envisions becoming the global leader of
revolutionary
Edge AI and Computer Vision Technology. YI Technology
is bringing the benefits of Computer Vision to every Person
and business.
We at Insights Success, caught up with Sean Da, CEO, and
Founder of YI Technology, to know more about the
company and its contribution to providing practical and
affordable smart life home solutions for everyone.
Providing Smart Technology Solutions
Advancement of technology such as combining AI and edge
computing is the topmost offering of YI Technology that
addresses the need of its customers. YI is an international
brand focusing on the research and development of video
imaging and vision technologies. YI has over 150+ patented
technologies in advanced computer algorithm capabilities,
original deep learning, edge computing, and assisted
driving algorithms around the world. Since it was launched
in 2014, YI has gained various prestigious awards for its
practical and affordable smart technology solutions for
individuals and enterprises across the globe.
Enhancing Quality, Privacy Protection with Affordable
Costs
The following features make YI Technology a preferred
choice of its clients:
• It offers quality services with decreased reliance on
internet connectivity and bandwidth.
• It has enhanced privacy protection.
• Cost reduction to customers.
Seeing Business Opportunities even in Challenges
For the smart hardware industry and related fields, the
impact of the pandemic is two-sided: both challenges and
substantial business opportunities. Due to the disruptive
impact of the pandemic, the supply chain industry has been
dramatically affected along with the shortage of chips and
price increases since the second half of 2020. The lack of
raw materials and rising costs of these chips have been
detrimental to the healthy development of the industry.
At the same time, in the era of the pandemic, human life
and work methods have also undergone profound changes.
Remote work, service robots to achieve contactless
services, online video, and thus have driven the rapid
growth of the demand for smart hardware. New industries
and product forms are also emerging, which intends to
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35. YI Technology is an
international brand
focusing on the
research and
development of
video imaging and
vision technologies.
Sean Da
CEO & Founder
YI Technology
bring tremendous business
opportunities to the smart hardware
industry.
Helping in the Development of Cities
After the pandemic, the future of the
computer vision market will be
technological innovation and user
experience for exploration and
breakthroughs. YI Technology will
combine its expertise in machine
vision algorithms and IoT scenarios
and its accumulation in P2P, cloud
computing, and other technologies and
use cameras as a carrier to help cities
develop digitally, connected, and
intelligently. YI Technology uses Kami
Vision smart cameras particularly.
Kami Vision leverages its computer
vision technology heritage and decades
of technical expertise in AI and
security solutions to bring customers
the most robust and seamless vision AI
platform available.
Ensuring Protection and Safety of
People
The values that drive YI Technology
are Responsibility, Efficiency, and
Empowerment. Specifically, during the
pandemic, through YI Technology's
subsidiary company Kami Vision, YI
Technology has donated with 'One
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36. More Breath' to support the relief efforts supporting the
catastrophic COVID-19 crisis in India. One More Breath is
raising funds to bring 1400 much-needed beds to hospitals
throughout India. Each hospital bed will help approximately
20 people. YI Technology's goal is to fund 15 fully
equipped hospital beds to ensure people's protection and
safety.
Establishing Largest Visual Intelligence Open Platform
YI Technology is committed to establishing the world's
largest AIoT visual intelligence open platform, including YI
cloud platform, small and medium-sized enterprise solution
platform, AI algorithm cloud ecological platform, and other
solutions. YI will continue to analyze the needs of small
and medium-sized enterprises in various vertical business
scenarios. YI Technology will gradually introduce low-cost
and fast-deployable solutions suitable for small and
medium-sized enterprises so that its clients can have a safer
and better solution more conveniently.
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