Touchscreens everywhere
EvoLink expects a big growth of touchscreens at home. A touchscreen is an ideal universal smart home interface, but only if combined with the right software. Multifunctional and interactive. Convenient at locations like your living room entrance, the kitchen, near your couch and at your nightstand. Depending on the location and size, besides typical smart home control, think of functionality like video doorbell, intercom, voice control, camera, speaker, recipes, timers, security alarm, shopping lists, tasks, calendar, weather, traffic & public transport. Touchscreens are becoming more readily available & affordable. Some of EvoLink’s competitors still sell way too expensive touchscreens when cheap smartphones & tablets can basically do the same. Also smart displays and wall panels are slowly getting interesting (Sonoff & Aqara). In all cases usefulness mainly depends on software. For touchscreens with an OS like Android, Linux & Fuchsia it’s much easier to build software support than for touchscreens with custom or closed software, like a remote control.
EvoLink visions homes with touchscreens everywhere. Affordable wall panels are the ideal supplement to wall switches. Wall switches will remain ideal for basic functionality. But soon you’ll want more buttons close by. At first a 6-button switch with single, double and long-press functionality delivering up to 18 different commands seems appealing. In reality remembering which button controls what is already a challenge for the smart home enthusiast, but impossible for partner and children. An intuitive touchscreen with buttons clearly describing functionality works best for everybody. Most common functionality displayed in big buttons for fast access and lesser used commands a swipe away.
At first basic smartphones & tablets will be most popular, because of their low price (below € 99,-) and universal Android OS. Most people don’t want to spent thousands of Euro’s to place iPhones or iPads in every room to use Apple HomeKit. Even older unused/second-hand devices can be ideal touchscreens. EvoLink will provide best buy guides and will ensure availability of minimalistic universal wall mounts with almost invisible power connectors or wireless charging. With increasing popularity the smartphones on your wall will be replaced with more basic wall panels, because you don’t need a battery, cellular & GPS connectivity, enduring enclosure, back camera’s, lightweightness, compactness, etc. Also placing parts of the wall panel inside the wall leaving only a slim touchscreen visible “on” the wall results in a more appealing and lower priced touchscreen. The EvoLink control panels display buttons efficiently so there’s no need for a big obtrusive display. You can easily set it up to display things like room temperature and important notifications, like who is ringing your video doorbell. It can switch to a different layout displaying buttons when you’re close to the display and turn off when no presence is detected in the room.
EvoLink is excited to make smart home touchscreens much more convenient! Currently available functionality can use a nudge for these devices to become really interesting...
Touchscreens everywhere
EvoLink expects a big growth of touchscreens at home. A touchscreen is an ideal universal smart home interface, but only if combined with the right software. Multifunctional and interactive. Convenient at locations like your living room entrance, the kitchen, near your couch and at your nightstand. Depending on the location and size, besides typical smart home control, think of functionality like video doorbell, intercom, voice control, camera, speaker, recipes, timers, security alarm, shopping lists, tasks, calendar, weather, traffic & public transport. Touchscreens are becoming more readily available & affordable. Some of EvoLink’s competitors still sell way too expensive touchscreens when cheap smartphones & tablets can basically do the same. Also smart displays and wall panels are slowly getting interesting (Sonoff & Aqara). In all cases usefulness mainly depends on software. For touchscreens with an OS like Android, Linux & Fuchsia it’s much easier to build software support than for touchscreens with custom or closed software, like a remote control.
EvoLink visions homes with touchscreens everywhere. Affordable wall panels are the ideal supplement to wall switches. Wall switches will remain ideal for basic functionality. But soon you’ll want more buttons close by. At first a 6-button switch with single, double and long-press functionality delivering up to 18 different commands seems appealing. In reality remembering which button controls what is already a challenge for the smart home enthusiast, but impossible for partner and children. An intuitive touchscreen with buttons clearly describing functionality works best for everybody. Most common functionality displayed in big buttons for fast access and lesser used commands a swipe away.
At first basic smartphones & tablets will be most popular, because of their low price (below € 99,-) and universal Android OS. Most people don’t want to spent thousands of Euro’s to place iPhones or iPads in every room to use Apple HomeKit. Even older unused/second-hand devices can be ideal touchscreens. EvoLink will provide best buy guides and will ensure availability of minimalistic universal wall mounts with almost invisible power connectors or wireless charging. With increasing popularity the smartphones on your wall will be replaced with more basic wall panels, because you don’t need a battery, cellular & GPS connectivity, enduring enclosure, back camera’s, lightweightness, compactness, etc. Also placing parts of the wall panel inside the wall leaving only a slim touchscreen visible “on” the wall results in a more appealing and lower priced touchscreen. The EvoLink control panels display buttons efficiently so there’s no need for a big obtrusive display. You can easily set it up to display things like room temperature and important notifications, like who is ringing your video doorbell. It can switch to a different layout displaying buttons when you’re close to the display and turn off when no presence is detected in the room.
EvoLink is excited to make smart home touchscreens much more convenient! Currently available functionality can use a nudge for these devices to become really interesting...
