Vinli is a connected car platform. They have announced the beginning of the end of the fragmentation between competing connected home and connected car systems. Built in the Vinli platform, the Vinli Home Connect brings compatible connected home platforms together into one interface with the connected car.
When the Vinli onboard device and platform is used with leading connected home products from companies including Icontrol Networks, Nest, and Samsung’s SmartThings, the new Vinli Home Connect app integrates comprehensive automation control into a single interface. Temperature, lighting, security, and more can all be managed or monitored using one app, across platforms and manufacturers.
The car-home connection means that home automation settings can be based not only on the presence of the user in the home, or on the clock, but on where the user’s car is located. All of this is powered by Vinli’s always on 4G / LTE-powered connected car.
With Home Connect, actions are prompted when a vehicle in your family network crosses a specified boundary, such as your driveway or subdivision. For example, if your teenager is the last to leave the house, the back door locks, the lights turn off, the temperature adjusts, and the security system is armed. And you’re instantly notified at the office on your mobile phone.
When you get close to home, the house begins to wake up. The temperature adjusts, the lights turn on, and the shades open. Your home system doesn’t wait for you to get home, or simply react to the clock. It prepares for your arrival and acts accordingly, whether you get home at the usual time or you’re running late.
If you are at CES 2016, and used Uber to get around, then you may have already used something powered by Vinli. Uber and Vinli have teamed up to offer free, unlimited in-car WiFi to Uber passengers during the week of CES 2016.