Ready-to-use Smart Home in boxes
Issue 02-2018:
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Leroy Merlin, a French leading DIY solutions provider, offers with Enki the most flexible smart home platform on the market. True to the company’s core commitment, Enki enables users to individually tailor their home control in accordance with their specific needs. Up to now, more than 100 products under 20 different brands are supported with the aim of having 200 products of 35 vendors by the end of 2018. Several of them use the EnOcean energy harvesting wireless standard.
The core objective of Enki is to offer an adaptive smart home solution that allows the user to control connected devices from different brands, based on different technologies and protocols with a single application. This gives customers the maximum freedom of choice of smart home scenarios that flexibly adjust to their habits of life and personal needs.
The Enki App
The Enki App is the solution’s core interface. Via this single app, available for free for iOS and Android systems, the user can install new products and connect them to other devices as well as to the Enki Box. At the same time, it allows creating individual scenarios. The handling is very user-friendly and intuitive, not requiring any technical background knowledge.
The Enki Box
The Enki Box is the solution’s second pillar. It adds to the Enki App and can connect a much wider range of sensors, switches, relay receivers etc. to the intelligent system. Pre-defined scenarios can automatically run via the box and be flexibly adapted whenever needed. In addition, the user can expand the smart home system with new devices at any time – not restricted to one brand or technology.
The box ensures a seamless communication of different products from different vendors using different protocols. Several of them are self-powered wireless sensors and switches based on the EnOcean technology which allow a highly flexible installation and require no maintenance due to their batteryless operation. Besides Leroy Merlin’s brand “evology”, this includes products from e.g. Legrand, Somfy, Debflex, Avidsen, Myfox, Trio2sys, Nodon or Hoppe.
The Enki Kits
Leroy Merlin offers a number of ready compiled Enki Kits for getting started easily and at a low cost. The kits cover the following applications: heating control, indoor climate control, security, shutter and door control, smart lighting and a starter kit.
Rollout to more than 900 points of sale
In April, Leroy Merlin announced a partnership with Auchan Retail, a large retailer with 55 years of experience, and Boulanger, a leading provider of electrical devices and multimedia. This collaboration is unique on the market and creates the largest ecosystem of interoperable smart home solutions. It makes Enki available at 927 points of sale in France and in the partners’ online shops. Besides this broad market availability, the three companies will also add new connected devices, functionalities and services to the Enki platform for almost endlessly customizable use cases. In addition, as a family member of Mulliez Group, Leroy Merlin targets the group’s huge customer base with smart services to a greater extent like never before.
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