Rumy
Personal portable thermostat for the most comfortable room temperature
Rumy
Personal portable thermostat for the most comfortable room temperature
Rumy brings portability to thermostats. It is a wireless and portable controller that works with smart thermostats like Nest, Ecobee and Honeywell etc. It remotely senses room temperature and adjusts automatically. With Rumy, you can change the temperature setting without getting up from the bed with a one step simple dial. So, next time you feel cold in the bed, don't reach for an extra blanket and waste electricity the whole night. Just use Rumy to adjust temperature to your desired comfort level.
Rumy turns off the AC once the bedroom gets to the desired temperature. It saves few minutes of AC run time in every cycle and thus tens of hours over a month. This way, Rumy has a payback time of just a few months and keeps saving thousands of dollars for the rest of its life time.
Yes. An app can do the job, but it has few limitations.
We think that an app is good for controlling when you are away from home.
The process of controlling from phone involves turning the phone ON, unlocking it, run an app and adjusting temp. This can get annoying very quickly after the initial exciting phase.
Think about a situation where you don't have any dedicated track change button to your car stereo. Will be annoying, right?
Also if I wake up in the middle of the night, I really don't want to play with my phone because that disrupts my sleep really bad. Rumy is one step.
Another important limitation is that phones don't have an ambient temperature sensor. This is mainly because they are by themselves heat generator and also, what if you want to put the phone under your blanket? The same goes for wearables. When you are inside a blanket ambient temperature reading from wearables can be few degree off than actual, which can render a very uncomfortable heating/cooling situation. Rumy doesn't have these problems.
We do think that voice integration will add a dimension to smart homes..but it will not obscure a physical switch. They both have their role in the future homes.
Also are you thinking of an edit/delete feature?