Several major companies are developing voice control for smart home devices, including Apple, Amazon, Interactive Voice, Athom, UCIC, and Honeywell. They are creating standalone voice assistant devices, integrating voice control into existing smart home hubs and platforms, and providing APIs for third party integration. This allows users to control smart home devices and functions like lights, locks, and thermostats using voice commands to their assistants and devices.

1. Voice control and Voice command for
Smart Home Solutions
Alexandre Rieupeyrout

2. Will the future of Smart Home interactions
be voice command ?
Several actors from diversified backgrounds and scope of activity, think YES :
- who are they ?
- how are they proceeding ?
- are they successful and leading their market ?
Alexandre Rieupeyrout

3. Summary
Apple : Home Kit and Siri
Amazon : Amazon Echo (thanks to Alexa Voice Service and Alexa
Skill Kits)
Interactive Voice Ivee Sleek
Athom : Homey
Unified Computer Intelligence Corporation (UCIC): Ubi
Alexandre Rieupeyrout

4. Apple : Home kit and Siri
● With HomeKit, users use iOS
device to control any of the
"Works with Apple HomeKit"
accessories like lights, locks,
thermostats, smart plugs, …
● Users have the possibility to set
up homes, zones, rooms or
scenes to command more easily
with Siri.
HomeKit works with :
Alexandre Rieupeyrout

5. Apple : Home kit and Siri
HomeKit webpage gives users some examples of the commands they can use
"Turn on the lights" or "Turn off the lights."
"Dim the lights" or "Set the brightness to 50%."
"Set the temperature to 68 degrees."
"Turn on the coffee maker.“
With homes, zones, rooms or scenes; users can use also commands like this:
● Dim the lights in the dining room to 50%."
● "Make the living room lights the brightest."
● "Set the Tahoe house to 72 degrees."
● "Set the thermostat downstairs
Alexandre Rieupeyrout

6. Amazon : Amazon Echo and Alexa
Amazon Echo, the Amazon speaker vocal assistant
For sale for at $179.99/ 199$
Can act as a hub for a smart home
IFTTT compatible
Works with :
Alexandre Rieupeyrout

7. Amazon : Amazon Echo and Alexa
Amazon is powerful because of 2 services :
AVS : available to developers for integration into
other internet-connected devices ( a few
lines of code to have it working on smart
device )
ASK : APIs and tools to create new skills for
Alexa appropriate for the device they are
being added to. (similar to Apple's HomeKit
Framework)
Alexandre Rieupeyrout

8. Interactive Voice : Ivee Sleek
$200 Voice activated alarm clock and connected home remote with voice control
A successful kickstarter campaign, now on sales freely
Provide basic information and can control third party products
« hello Ivee » to activate and start a command
No devoted App, everything is done on the web portal
Works with :
Alexandre Rieupeyrout

9. Athom : Homey
● Smart Home Hub with voice command
● Sold around 300€, after a successful Kickstarter campaign
● 8 wireless technologies : zigbee, zwave, BLE, wifi, infrared, NFC and nRF24/01+
● « hey Homey » to activate and start a command
● Works with an App also
● Possibility for developers to create an App to be supported by Homey
● Understands and speaks English, Dutch, German, French and Spanish
Works with :
Alexandre Rieupeyrout

10. Unified Computer Intelligence Corporation
(UCIC): Ubi
Pronounced “oo-bee,”, and say « Okey Ubi » to activate
Successful Kickstarter campaign that raised nearly $230,000 (of a $36,000 goal)
2500 beta systems on the market now !
Sold at $299
Works with :
Open API to encourage DIY developers to experiment with it
Beta testers are using it with Vera home control, Control4 systems
Possible integration with Sonos and also Alarm.com
Alexandre Rieupeyrout

11. Unified Computer Intelligence Corporation
(UCIC): Ubi
Alexandre Rieupeyrout

12. Honeywell wifi thermostat with Voice
control
Wi-Fi thermostat (RTH9590) with Voice Control
Sold for more than $300
Capable of being commanded by the voice and recognize users
Only possible on the thermostat itself, not on the smartphone
Users have to say “Hello thermostat”
Commands are very specific and limited
to changing the temperature up or down by varying degrees.
Alexandre Rieupeyrout

13. Already several actors :
Integrating
with :
Big players HVAC industryStart ups
Smart Home third party actors
Standalone
devices
and/or
APIs for
integration
Alexandre Rieupeyrout