I’m pleased to announce that CSR has been named a 2015 CES Innovation Awards Honoree in recognition of our CSRmesh™ protocol. Products entered in this prestigious program are judged by a panel of independent industria
l designers, engineers and members of the trade media to honor outstanding design and engineering in cutting edge consumer electronics products. We believe CSRmesh will truly revolutionise development of not just consumer smart home products, but also smart buildings in general – even hotels and warehouses.
CSRmesh allows any device to send messages into a mesh network that other devices can receive. These devices need not be adjacent; instead, devices relay messages to increase coverage. Information in messages can action other related events: walk up to your front door and touch the handle to unlock it; the lights and heating turn on, the security system disables and the radio tunes into the channel you’ve just been listening to in the car. Allowing everything to be linked – but without requiring any central management or box – means that the occupier can build their smart home one device at a time. Each new device acquired makes their home smarte.
Our main objective with CSRmesh is to facilitate smart home automation without the hassles of existing systems: no vendor lock-in, no single point of failure, easy control from devices people already own and whole-building coverage. The innovation is in leveraging the ubiquity of Bluetooth – in phones, tablets and laptops – to control and monitor other devices. Using CSRmesh, we can exchange messages within a single room, or across a whole building. You can find out more about it here, as well as details of our CSRmesh Development Kit here.
Products chosen as CES Innovation Honorees reflect innovative design and engineering in some of the most cutting edge tech products and services coming to market. It’s clear that the panel value the benefits and unique features that CSRmesh can bring to the IoT – the creation of an industry-wide ecosystem of interoperable devices that can work together to make our lives easier.
CSRmesh will be displayed at CES from January 6-9, 2015 in Las Vegas. If you’re interested in a demo drop us an email at bluetoothsmart@csr.com