Let there be light, music and safe sockets: 5 ideas on how to upgrade a smart home
Miscellaneous / / December 29, 2021
1. "Salute, Sberbank"
Batman, Sherlock Holmes, Tony Stark, Queen Elizabeth - what do they have in common? Their homes are run by real professionals. And now such a professional - "Salyut" can also live in your house.
Salute is not just one virtual assistant, but a whole family of three characters. The funniest of them is Joy, you can call her with her. Serious Athena will help with business matters and work plans. And then there is Sberbank - an ideal assistant in everyday life and in the office. All three can make your home more functional, more comfortable, and safer. To do this, you can buy smart lamps, LED strips and Sber sockets. With them you no longer have to:
- return to the apartment to make sure that the iron or kettle is turned off;
- crawling out from under the covers to turn off the light;
- waiting on a hot day when the air conditioner cools the apartment - it will be already comfortable by your arrival;
- wait for morning coffee - the assistant will turn on the coffee machine while you wash or look for a bathrobe.
Joy, Sberbank and Athena can manage not only the house, but also finances through Sberbank Online. Just tell to whom and how much you need to transfer, and the assistant will send the money himself. And they can also be sent for shopping and asked to take over the appointment to the barbershop or to the doctor.
In the documentary "Engineering Joy: how smart devices are created with virtual assistants from Sberbank»Developers SberDevices talked about the development of their products and services over the past year and presented new functions of Salyut, in particular, Smart Autoresponder. With the help of this service, you can free yourself from phone calls that are inconvenient or simply do not want to answer. For example, Sber, Athena and Joy can talk to couriers, postmen, or a chatty neighbor from the fifth floor. Just set up responses for each group of incoming: if it is a courier, the answering machine will tell you the intercom code and will ask you to leave the parcel at the door, and the neighbor will inform you that, unfortunately, you are very busy and cannot talk.
Assistants will also communicate with spammers: in case of a call from an unfamiliar number, the virtual assistant will pick up the phone and will not allow dubious offers to you. “Smart answering machine” is already available in the Salyut mobile application, and will soon appear in SberBank Online.
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2. SberPortal
The smart display won two victories in the Red Dot Design Award - a prestigious international competition, and also received the IF Design award for the best solution in the field of industrial design. In a small case, the device contains dozens of useful functions. Feel like the hero of a fantastic movie, where a faithful assistant droid meets you at home, always ready for conversation and firefight with witty comments.
The device is equipped with a smart camera, so you can control it with gestures and pay for purchases with your face. Voice control is also available - it is convenient if during cooking you forgot the recipe or realized that you need to order additional ingredients: you will not have to interrupt to wash your hands. And with six microphones SberPortal will hear the owner even with a noisy mixer or at a party with loud music.
With a smart camera, video calls and Kidsar. This is a play and learning set with augmented reality function: using a special camera mirror and learning cards, you can turn the table surface into a field for educational games. The camera records the position of the child's cards or drawings and assesses the correctness of the game task. So a smart virtual butler can also become a smart virtual nanny.
Across SberPortal the Salyut family can control a smart home. Suffice it to say: “Fireworks! Dim the light in the bedroom ”, ask to disconnect the power sockets or turn on the air conditioner - virtual assistants will fulfill your request.
Into the stand SberPortal built-in speaker: 30 watts from Harman / Kardon is enough to make a lot of noise in a three-room apartment. The device has a karaoke function, playlists and volume control - all this using voice commands. And if you show an open palm to the display, the video or track will be paused. For raising or lowering a thumb in front of the camera, the song will go either to the favorites or to the black list.
3. SberBox
This is a TV box that brings new life to your HDMI TV. The set-top box can be controlled by voice or through the remote control, and Salute assistants can help with the smart home: they will turn on the Christmas tree garland and set up romantic lighting in the room. They will also order popcorn and select a movie from the OKKO service library.
If you and your soul mate are in love with technology and prefer to spend time together in virtual worlds, then go to SberPlay. With a cloud gaming service available through SberBox, you can go to conquer the post-apocalyptic world or drive tanks during the Cold War - just turn your smartphone into a gamepad in the "Sber Salut" application and go ahead.
4. SberBox Top
TV media center with smart camera combines the possibilities SberPortal and SberBox. The camera here is really smart and recognizes the same gestures as the SberPortal “look”: fingers with the letter V - call the assistant, open palm - pause, likes and dislikes with your thumb. And also a high-tech eye will show intelligence and ingenuity during video calls. Owners SberBox Top can arrange conferences for up to 100 people through the Sber Jazz service: there are no time limits, but there is smart noise reduction. Keyboard clicks, a boiling kettle, the stomp of a child in the next room - no one will hear this symphony of sounds.
A smart home is a place that combines everything at once. For example, a gym. With SberBox Top doing fitness and yoga is especially pleasant: a virtual trainer in Zenia will track the correctness of asanas through the camera, with the Wellbell service you can arrange joint online workouts with friends, and in the BeatDancer game you can lose calories to music even every evening - you will raise both muscle tone and mood.
Smart "Miracle Books" - an application for AR fairy tales, will not interfere with a smart home either. Now you can not only show pictures and read to kids before bedtime, but also immerse yourself in theatrical performance of familiar scenes. With the help of AR masks, transform into the heroes of the book and go on a journey through magical lands on the big screen. Interact with SberBox Top safe not only for adults, but also for children: activate the "Child Mode", and the prefix will not let dubious content pass.
Saved in SberBox Top and all other functions of the Salute assistants: from the selection of movies and music to the mood to the delivery of groceries. And for smart home shopping, there is Layer: with this technology, you can buy a tracksuit from Squid Game or Gentlemen without distracting from your viewing. Layer will analyze the outfit on the screen and find a similar one in online stores, and with virtual assistants, you can easily drop your favorite products into the basket and order delivery. Layer recognizes not only clothes, but also landmarks, and can offer a ticket to the city that you like on the screen.
5. SberBox Time
The novelty that Sberbank presented in his recent film “Engineering joy»: Smart media speaker, watch with dial, set-top box for TV and cloud gaming - all in one small device.
My SberBox Time You can make it unique - just add ears or antlers to the column. Download one of 16 3D-models, print on a 3D printer - and now your device has been transformed. It's always a pleasure to chat with virtual assistants: SberDevices language models are some of the bestLeaderboard / Russian SuperGLUE benchmark in the Russian-speaking segment. Salute assistant in your SberBox Time will be ready to answer the child why the sky is blue and the sea is Black, and will cheer you up after a hard day at work.
And the set-top box will also turn on the timer, find the recipe, start the radio in the background, adjust the light and even tell a fairy tale in the nursery. And if you are late for work in the morning, SberBox Time will tell you where the traffic jams are in the city now, what the weather is and what to wear, and will also turn on the coffee machine and the kettle.
The device will go on sale in early 2022. In the meantime, you can subscribe to notifications about the start of sales.
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