Notion Sensor Keeps Track Of Everything In Your Home

Home automation takes many forms, and they all have the same basic foundation: connectivity extended towards one's smartphone. With Notion, a new sensor that has seen ample success on Kickstarter, connectivity is its biggest feature. The sensor is small and able to detect a variety of conditions, shuttling the information to one's smartphone or tablet.

Though saying Notion will keep track of everything in your home is hyperbole, it's not much of a stretch. The sensors are small and can be fixed nearly anywhere, and because they're able to detect such wide varieties of conditions, one can receive information on items and locations in their home that cover many different situations.

As some examples set forth by the company behind Notion, the sensor can be used to detect a water leak when placed next to, for example, a hot water heater; it can be used to tell whether a window or cupboard has been opened; if the smoke detector has gone off in your home.

Beyond that, it can monitor for different conditions and events concerning one specific object. Using the front door as an example, Notion can tell you when it is opened and when it is being knocked on, or if it has been opened but not shut. Wondering if the light in the room with the door is on? It'll tell you that, too.

The device is equipped with seven different senors comprised of temperature, proximity, ambient light, gyroscope, accelerometer, water leak probes, and piezoelectric transducer. Each Notion sensor works in conjunction with one central hub.

Notion is being funded through Kickstarter, where it has seen rapid success. The company behind the device, Loop Labs in Denver, was seeking $50,000, and has received double the amount so far at a bit over $100,000 in pledges. There are 27 days remaining, and $99 will get you an early bird device.

SOURCE: Kickstarter