The ‘Point’ is a camera-free, ceiling-mounted solution that employs state-of-the-art motion, temperature, patented sound recognition, humidity, and air pressure detection, and can be user-installed via a simple magnetic mounting plate in less than five minutes
Nordic Semiconductor today announces that its nRF9160 System-in-Package (SiP) LTE-M/NB-IoT cellular IoT module is being employed to provide LTE-M cellular wireless connectivity in the formerly Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Low Energy-only, battery-powered ‘Point’ smart home alarm developed by Swedish startup Minut.
Measuring just 85mm in diameter and 46mm in height, the Minut says the 180-gram Point eliminates both the need and intrusion of having multiple smart home alarm devices (apartments and small homes need just one). User privacy is said to be safeguarded too by a combination of processing all data locally on the device itself (so collected data never actually leaves the device) and not employing cameras.
“Whether you’re at work or away on vacation, the last thing you want to worry about is your home,” comments Nils Mattisson, CEO & Co-Founderat Minut. “With the Point you can relax safe in the knowledge that if anything out-of-the-ordinary happens you’ll automatically get sent a notification alert straight to your smartphone. Alert thresholds can also be user-specified, and the user can ‘check-in’ on the status of their home whenever they want.”
