Premise
Ilevia has been offering professional solutions for the control and supervision of KNX home and building automation systems since 2009. Since 2018, together with more than 40 protocols, the Ilevia system supports the voice assistance services of Amazon and Google that allow the control of the main functions of the KNX electrical system through voice commands given to compatible Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant devices. Ilevia solutions thus allow you to control lights, shutters, thermostats, sockets and scenarios with voice commands.
The new multi-account function of the Ilevia system guarantees to independently control the automation system of each room of any type of building, with the further advantage of considerable economic savings.
Voice technology is in constant evolution and that is why Ilevia monitors its developments, to continue to refine its integration. For this purpose, Ilevia has recently updated its system to improve the understanding of the commands and the response on the electrical system. Today it releases a new update to give its solutions versatility, making them suitable not only for residential buildings, but also for large structures such as hotels, nursing homes and offices where it is required to control each room independently. From today the Ilevia system supports the multi-account function for the management of voice commands with Amazon and Google services. Let’s understand together its advantages.
Voice control in private homes
Mono Account Solutions
Let’s start by saying that the most common KNX interfaces for voice control manage integration by configuring a single Amazon or Google owner account, the same one with which the assistant’s smart speaker device is configured. Imagining in a private home the presence of one of these KNX interfaces and as many smart speakers as there are rooms, if we give the command “turn off all lights” to any of these devices, the Amazon or Google cloud will send the interface KNX a command to switch off every single light in the house.
Mono Account Solutions
Let’s start by saying that the most common KNX interfaces for voice control manage integration by configuring a single Amazon or Google owner account, the same one with which the assistant’s smart speaker device is configured. Imagining in a private home the presence of one of these KNX interfaces and as many smart speakers as there are rooms, if we give the command “turn off all lights” to any of these devices, the Amazon or Google cloud will send the interface KNX a command to switch off every single light in the house.
Voice control in hotels, nursing homes, offices
Mono Account Solutions
Let’s now assume the installation of the same KNX interface in a larger room, a hotel for example, with a large number of rooms, each of them equipped with its own private smart speaker. By giving the command “turn off all lights” to any of them, for the same reason, all the “light” devices of the system would be switched off without distinction, therefore all the lights in all the rooms of the structure. In these cases, the solution is to use a dedicated KNX interface for voice control for each room in order to be able to manage multiple accounts and thus ensure independent control of the electrical system of the individual rooms.
Choosing this solution, however, there are some technical and economic aspects that should not be underestimated: the cost of purchasing KNX interfaces for voice control (one interface for each room), the time and costs of installation, wiring and system configuration. Are we sure that this will not affect the client’s choice and the feasibility of the project? Instead, it would be appropriate to offer a technically and economically more advantageous solution, a multi-account solution like that of Ilevia.
Multi Account Solution
Multi Account Solution
