Creating connected products. The simple way.
The Internet of Things is changing the way we will live.
— Punet Bandit, Wired
Think at a coffee machine making you a coffee when waking up, all doors closing when you leave home or the washing machine working during night because of the lower energy pricing. Possibilities are endless.
With Lelylan we created a set tools that change the Connected Home landscape by enabling a company to build connected products in few minutes. In other words, think at Lelylan as an extremely fast solution to the cloud, to control and monitor the millions of intelligent connected devices that are now being shipped, and the billions that will come.
We are trying to provide one of the most complete Connected Home solution for clients to create new businesses and competitive advantage in no time.
Andrea Reginato, CEO of Lelylan
While many vendors are talking about the Internet of Things and the Connected Home, we are one of the first startups to enable businesses to gain access to all services a connected product can give, such as data analytics, mobile access and predictive maintenance to all devices.
Simple APIs and tools for developers
Lelylan is an open, cloud platform for making any physical device connected and smart. Products become part of a unified solution where devices communicate with each other and where any existing service can be integrated. In this way we make it possible for a developer to quickly and easily extend an Internet connected device, creating new apps related to web, mobile, wearables (e.g. smart watch and glasses), speech recognition, neural based interfaces and much more.
In a world increasingly shaped by software, developers are market makers. Nowhere is this more true than in the burgeoning Internet of Things market.
Matt Asay, Read Write Web
We offer a simple, complete and open API that can connect to any devices and on top of it we created wrappers in different languages like iOS, AngularJS, Ruby and Node.js. We also created the device tag, a new web component enabling developers to build apps for the Connected Home in minutes.
The internet of things needs developers. And developers need tools.
Stacey Higginbotham, Gigaom
As today we have over 460 sign-ups on Lelylan with people testing out the platform and giving back feedback. In two weeks we’ll add the 231 backers pledging to the EZcontrol Indiegogo campaign reaching more than 700 people hacking our platform.
We release a big part of our work as Open Source on Github. You can find Dashboards, API wrappers, hardware integrations code, the MQTT broker and much more. Everything is well explained in the Dev Center where you can easily get started.
The race is now on to develop new applications and figure out the best way to deliver them. Lelylan allows for virtually endless opportunities and connections to take place, many of which we can’t even think of or fully understand the impact of today. And the best part is that this is just the beginning, because we’re in the early days of the Connected Home development.
Extraordinary User Experience
User Experience research and design for the Connected Home must be an integral part of any platform. UX is even more important for mobile applications where we use functionalities on a small screen while moving around and engaging in other activities. In this scenario simplicity of use and speed are essential factors for the product ultimate success.
The jump from light switch to mobile app is much more dramatic, and, frankly, light switches are a pretty refined and satisfactory technology.
Jon Bruner, Forbes
If you check the IoT market today you can find a lot of apps and a lot of different UX to control the same devices. We think some rationality is needed to simplify the access to our Connected Products and for this reason we started to work on Lelylan Design, a comprehensive guide for visual, motion, and interaction to teach designers how to create exceptional apps.
Imagine trying to set a romantic scene. You load one app to lower the lights, a second to start playing soft music and a third to lock the door behind you.
Molly Wood, New York Times
Our goal is to find the best user experience for mobile, tablet and desktop. We began Lelylan Design by studying every single device and existing apps and we started prototyping several solutions. During this period we created the device web component, an open and customizable solution where everyone can experiment new UX for the Connected Home.
Lelylan design? It’s like the Android Material for the IoT.
— William Bergamo, Lelylan
Making sense of connected products
As we collect more data, there’s going to be a larger opportunity for industry manufacturers that can analyze that data and change the way they do business.
Jenny Fielding, Tech Crunch, R/GA
Collecting and analyzing the data generated from the connected devices will make a huge contribution to solving problems we have today and those we have never seen. With this granularity and variety of data, richer correlation analysis can be done to detect emergent patterns in the data that previously would have been impossible.
Through these new patterns, connected devices can improve our lives. Lights blinking when an intrusion is detected, thermostats automatically turning on when coming back from work, a lock opening only from you and your friends.
In this way we can have a true smart home that doesn’t need a control panel requiring constant user interaction, but rather actions that are carried out serendipitously. Because although is cool to have your app, is better to slowly make all devices disappear.
Ready for the market
We started to certify most of the existing hardware out there. We already made integrations with Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Electric Imp, Spark Core, Intel Galileo and Texas Instruments CC3000/CC3200. Other solutions are on the way.
By 2020, 26 billion units will make up the Internet of things, excluding
tablets, smartphones and PCs — Gartner says. This opens up new challanges and new opportunities that will change the way we live in our homes.
Broadband Internet is becoming widely available,
wifi hardware costs are going down and smartphone penetration is increasing.
All of these things are creating the perfect storm for the Internet of Things.
— Jacob Morgan, Forbes
Sound awesome? If you think so join Lelylan today.
