SBox
Many have tried but no one has really succeeded. Either the technology was too expensive or the communications network wasn’t ready. The alternative was more cables than anyone wanted across their apartment. But these are new times. Broadband is here. Wireless is a success story and the touch-sensitive screen has made its debut.
The Manodo Sbox is equipped with a touch-sensitive screen that is installed in the hallway for quick access to energy usage information as well as a full range of other services and functions.
SBox is connected to a server via broadband, making it easy to upgrade and add new functions whenever you or your tenants so wish. Manodo’s Home Arena (service platform) runs on the server to manage delivery of the right services to the right apartments.
The SBox employs built-in wireless technology to communicate with (for example) sensors and regulators without unnecessary cabling (using Z-wave radio technology). To be on the safe side, we have already made sure that the right kind of Internet-based services and information plug into the system via the Home Arena platform. And more than that; you can display the information on your TV, your computer- even your mobile telephone.
The icing on the cake is that we’ve made it possible for anyone at all to develop services that are compatible with the system and the service platform using a fully documented Wiki as a guide . The technically-inclined call it open API or SDK and nowadays, Web 2.0. And we are completely convinced it is the most productive way to guarantee swift and innovative service development for the system.