Domoteco, Open Source / Open Hardware

After years of work, in which we started fighting, with strength, dedication and dedication, we found tools that allowed us to scale, grow, in Google we found our main ally, in Arduino a giant door to have an easy perception of electronics, in Linux we find a philosophy of life, in our soul matter the Sena we find open knowledge for all, these tools and many more have done that Domoteco day after day for the last 7 years, since we were the "Prototype of an autonomous house" that participated in Campus Party and obtained the acknowledgments in national and international media, that project that interested our great friend Jon "Maddog" Hall, that great start motivated us to develop the domotic to a point that was accessible to the majority, that the gap digital and economic that disappears, that there was a generation of opportunities hand in hand with technology was our main goal what and what remains.

During all this time we have made the famous "pivot" on the same business model seeking to improve the shortcomings and find an ideal solution, we started with a model based on a wiring to "a mini brain", then we had the idea of why not to send data wirelessly, in the year 2015 doing technological surveillance we found a series of controllers oriented to the Internet connection, from that moment we gave the most radical "pivot", we took everything, restructured it and started working on a model where the devices are autonomous, does not require a central or "brain" to operate, we found a different model that reduces costs, makes everything more aesthetic and we got a model that breaks the scheme that associated home automation to something complex to install, we had two important points, one the user experience and the other the environment, we started to develop a simple interface to control from smar tphone, tablet or PC, the control in real time is the most amazing thing we discovered in the first tests; After this we reach the critical point of the previous models, the payment for things that are not used, such as the central, remote controls, control screens and licenses, we decided that ABDON App should be free, with this we get a model very low requirements, without wiring, without adjustments, without licenses and with an easy-to-use interface, we sought to empower the end user, a clear example of this is the creation of scenarios, while in the other home automation systems a technical specialist defines with the user the function for each button of the keypad that consumes space, it requires adjustments and only allows between 4 and 6 scenarios, while in ABDON App the user goes to the menu of the application, enters scenarios, clicks on add, sets a name of the new scenario and selection touching the devices that you want to be activated with this new virtual button, thus, the end user without technical knowledge, nor We did not move, much less have to pay to change them, with this we saw that we were facing a different business model, domotic at a competitive price, easy to buy, install and use, in reference to the cost, the relationship of a Our solution to the competition lies in a margin between 40% and 60% below.

In this moment that we have the most successful business model in front of the internet of things, the most optimal and efficient, we firmly believe that opening what we have found will help us to be free and have something that will make us all grow, not only will it be the ideas proposed by Domoteco, will be to hear the voice of thousands or maybe millions of people, is to give the opportunity for this to reach a global character, in this way we decided that we will start working on migrating what we have developed to the Open Source philosophy, Open Hardware, we consider it pertinent to license under the type GPL 3.0, we open our mind to open our dreams.

Our commitment will be to return the developed a framework to develop products for the internet of things in the des centralized model that we want to...