Ayla Networks Selected by Universal Electronics to Help Develop New Platform to Transform the Smart Home Experience
January 3, 2019
UEI’s Smart Home Digital Assistant Platform, Nevo®
Butler, to be launched at CES 2019, will feature Ayla’s cloud software
platform
SANTA CLARA, Calif. & SANTA ANA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–lt;a href=”https://twitter.com/hashtag/CES?src=hash” target=”_blank”gt;#CESlt;/agt;–Ayla
Networks, whose Internet of Things (IoT) platform-as-a-service
(PaaS) for smart home device manufacturers and service providers, and Universal
Electronics (UEI), (NASDAQ:UEIC), the worldwide leader in universal
control and sensing technologies today announced a new platform for the
smart home in which UEI will pre-integrate Ayla Networks platform with
UEI’s world-leading QuickSet®
Cloud platform and offer it through a resell service, as part of a
new line of smart home managed hardware solutions.
The relationship, which will officially launch at CES 2019 in Las Vegas,
will allow UEI to further solidify its footprint in the rapidly growing
IoT space by expanding its portfolio of home sensing, monitoring, and
control solutions to include industry-leading device management and
application enablement capabilities from Ayla Networks. Together the two
companies will accelerate the transformation of the smart home market,
bringing core technology and end-to-end applications to enable quick
time-to-value and an elevated customer experience.
Nevo Butler is an end-to-end voice-enabled smart home hub with built-in
white label digital assistant that unifies entertainment control and
home automation experiences, enabling interoperability across fragmented
ecosystems. Powered by QuickSet Cloud, Nevo Butler delivers a versatile
monitoring and control assistant solution for the home, capable of
addressing a wide range of devices and use cases, ranging from voice
control of an existing installed base of devices to innovative new Cloud
services. With a customizable digital assistant front-end,
enterprise-level integration services and an expanding ecosystem of
add-on services this platform allows service providers and consumer
electronics brands to bring voice-enabled services to their customers
while remaining in control of the consumer relationship.
Available as kits that address specific channel needs, Nevo Butler can
be bundled with a range of certified devices including Ecolink®
sensors, offering safety and security, energy management and hospitality
applications, in addition to voice-enabled universal entertainment
control.
“This landmark partnership is the latest example of how the Ayla
platform can seamlessly combine with leading smart home solution
providers to create winning products,” said Jonathan Cobb, CEO of Ayla
Networks. “Ayla Networks has always stood for accelerating IoT-led
transformation, and the new solutions from UEI will drive new services,
innovative business models and rapid time to value from data analytics.”
Arsham Hatambeiki, UEI’s SVP Product & Technology said, “The Ayla
partnership represents an important step toward our goal to be the
leader in control and sensing technologies for the smart home. This
collaboration strengthens our position in the existing smart home
business by allowing us to simplify the IoT device management and
onboarding process allowing us to expand our offerings to equipment
manufacturers in HVAC.”
The smart home market is projected to have accelerated growth over the
next five years, driven by several factors, including advancements in
communication technologies; consumer interest in home automation and
monitoring; a push for energy conservation; and the growth of utility
and government-sponsored programs. According to data from Navigant
Research, the global market is expected to double in size, from $1.1
billion in 2016 to $2.2 billion in 2020, with the largest growth
forecasted in North America.
Ayla Networks and UEI will participate at CES 2019 in Las Vegas from
January 8-11 and will jointly showcase the combined solution with
presentations and demos. To schedule a consultative meeting, contact
Prashanth Shetty, prashanth@aylanetworks.com
at Ayla Networks.
About Ayla Networks
Ayla Networks, a leading provider of edge connectivity, device
management and application enablement for the Internet of Things (IoT),
enables the world’s largest companies to connect any device, on any
cloud, to any application. By leveraging the Ayla Agile IoT™ platform,
customers are able to quickly productize future-proofed, connected
products, while making device data usable for ongoing analytic insights
and support for advanced business applications. For more information,
visit www.aylanetworks.com.
About Universal Electronics
Universal
Electronics Inc. (NASDAQ:UEIC) is the worldwide leader in universal
control and sensing technologies for the smart home. Its broad portfolio
of patents includes QuickSet Cloud® service that utilizes the
world’s most complete knowledge graph of devices to detect and interact
with thousands of entertainment and smart home devices. The company
designs, develops, and manufactures innovative products that are used by
the world’s leading brands in the audio, video, subscription
broadcasting, connected home, home energy management, and mobile device
markets. UEI’s many first-to-market innovations have helped transform
the home entertainment control, home security, and home energy
management and sensing industries. More information is available at www.uei.com
and quicksetcloud.com
Nevo and QuickSet
are trademarks of Universal Electronics Inc.
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forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements involve a
number of risks and uncertainties, including the timely development,
delivery and market acceptance of UEI’s Nevo Butler product and
associated service offerings and technologies identified in this
release; the continued penetration and growth of the digital assistant
products and consumer technologies identified in this release; and other
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Contacts
Ayla Contact:
Prashanth Shetty
Vice President, Global
Marketing
650-483-2580
prashanth@aylanetworks.com
UEI Contact:
Benny Canady
Corporate Marketing Manager
714-918-9500
bcanady@uei.com