Control electronics.
Develop electronics around the appliance and its operating requirements.
Our work / Appliance engineering
Different products.
A connected approach.
Our appliance engineering work spans water heaters, refrigerators and air conditioners. Each category brings its own physical behaviour, controls and user expectations.
The engineering challenge
Think beyond an individual board.
A connected appliance needs its physical controls, embedded behaviour and software experience to work together. The product category changes; the need for a coherent experience remains.
What the connection made possible
A water heater that learns
when you need it.
We built an AI scheduling service for a connected water heater. It learns a household’s hot-water rhythm, then heats the tank just before showers and taps instead of keeping it hot around the clock.
- 01Sense
The heater reports its tank temperature through the day.
- 02Learn
Hot-water draws are detected and grouped into the household’s recurring patterns.
- 03Plan
A weekly pre-heat schedule, with each slot sized for the biggest draw it has seen, at the comfort level you choose.
- 04Apply
The plan goes to the heater over the air, and the week can be reviewed in the app.
A typical dayHeating, before and after learning
Our contribution
Across the product.
Embedded software.
Translate product behaviour into firmware, device states and interfaces.
Connected experience.
Consider how people see, control and interact with the product through software.
What this makes possible
A foundation for intelligent assistance.
When a product can expose relevant information and permitted controls, it becomes possible to explore more natural interfaces and context-aware assistance. This is the connection between our appliance work and our AI direction.
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Let’s make it work.
A product, a property, or a new possibility. We’ll start with one useful outcome.