WhichEV.Net
  • Buying Advice
  • Events
  • Features
  • News
    • All
    • Charging
    • Commercial Vehicles
    • Consumer Vehicles
    • Cool Car Tech
    • Curiosities
    • Design
    • Energy
    • Environment
    • Industry
    • Legal
    • Market
    • Motorsport
    • Public Sector
    • Records
    • Rumours
    • Safety
    • Sharing

    US highways regulator gives greenlight to Einride’s autonomous electric freight vehicles

    Electrogenic launches ‘drop in’ kit to electrify Land Rover Defenders

    McMurtry’s electric car breaks speed record at Goodwood

    3ti raises £500,000 in crowdfunding to roll out the world’s first pop-up mini solar car park

    Britishvolt to develop large format cells for high performance EVs

    Candela introduces the first electric flying ferry

    Trending Tags

  • Reviews
No Result
View All Result
WhichEV.Net
  • Buying Advice
  • Events
  • Features
  • News
    • All
    • Charging
    • Commercial Vehicles
    • Consumer Vehicles
    • Cool Car Tech
    • Curiosities
    • Design
    • Energy
    • Environment
    • Industry
    • Legal
    • Market
    • Motorsport
    • Public Sector
    • Records
    • Rumours
    • Safety
    • Sharing

    US highways regulator gives greenlight to Einride’s autonomous electric freight vehicles

    Electrogenic launches ‘drop in’ kit to electrify Land Rover Defenders

    McMurtry’s electric car breaks speed record at Goodwood

    3ti raises £500,000 in crowdfunding to roll out the world’s first pop-up mini solar car park

    Britishvolt to develop large format cells for high performance EVs

    Candela introduces the first electric flying ferry

    Trending Tags

  • Reviews
No Result
View All Result
WhichEV.Net
No Result
View All Result
Home News Consumer Vehicles Cars

Renault is developing a service to connect its cars to smart home appliances

Staff Writer by Staff Writer
13th January 2020 - Updated on 8th April 2020
in Cars, Consumer Vehicles, Cool Car Tech, News
Reading Time: 2 mins read
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

Last updated on April 8th, 2020 at 07:59 pm

Groupe Renault is developing a service that enables the interaction and communication between its cars and connected objects in smart homes. The French automaker is partnering up with another French-born company, Otodo, which pide themselves in smart-home connectivity and appliances.

The idea behind this new connectivity service is so that Renault customers can control various smart home appliances from their vehicle's dashboard and vice-versa, where they'll be able to prepare or share an itinerary from the home to their connected vehicle. This will allow drivers to automate a few mundane tasks and should speed up the process of getting in or out of a vehicle.

Jean-François Labal, Marketing & Partnership Head for Connected Cars & Services at Groupe Renault: “Cars need to blend into our digital lives. With this service, we’re offering our customers a trailblazing experience and a completely secure system to connect their home’s connected objects to their vehicle. The interface to set it up is very intuitive and it comes with two advantages: it’s automatic so it makes life simpler and it saves energy by switching lights and heating on and off as needed.”

The service will be maintained through a secured service, which shouldn't be easy to hack. To make the process easy and accessible for all, Renault will develop an app, which will integrate itself through the company's Easy Link platform. Available on the new Zoe, Clio and Captur, the service will allow users to select the objects within their homes that they want to include and assign tailored schedules to them all.

As a Renault customer, you'll be able to set a scenario when you leave the home, whereby it puts the home to ‘sleep'; for example, setting the thermostat to energy-saving mode, turning off the lights and closing the shutters. When arriving back home, these set devices will then wake up, knowing when you've pulled up on your driveway.

Read next: Autonomous Renault electric taxis begin public testing at Paris University

As with most smart home-centric apps, you'll be able to activate how and when the system automatically triggers itself; including how you'd like to receive notifications.

The French automaker chose to partner up with Otodo as the latter company has been developing a technology platform since 2016, which aims at remotely controlling a wide variety of home appliances across a multitude of countries. It's not just a localised solution; and rightfully so, as Renault's vehicles are sold across different territories.

Eric Denoyer, CEO at Otodo: “Our platform has enabled Groupe Renault to create a simple and universal link between smart cars and smart homes, that works across brands and technologies. Very soon, everyone will be able to use this platform to organise their daily life from their car.”

The announcement of the partnership took place at the 2020 Consumer Electronics Show (CES), which takes place in Las Vegas. To see what else was announced at CES this year, head over to this page.

 

Tags: CES 2020Electric CarsRenault
Previous Post

London’s electric black cabs will now be exported to Japan

Next Post

Nottingham wants to become the first carbon-neutral city in the UK

Staff Writer

Staff Writer

Experienced writers from the automobile and technology sectors - working with the in-house EV editorial team to deliver top quality, independent content in a timely fashion.

Related Posts

US highways regulator gives greenlight to Einride’s autonomous electric freight vehicles

1st July 2022

Electrogenic launches ‘drop in’ kit to electrify Land Rover Defenders

30th June 2022

McMurtry’s electric car breaks speed record at Goodwood

30th June 2022

3ti raises £500,000 in crowdfunding to roll out the world’s first pop-up mini solar car park

30th June 2022
Next Post

Nottingham wants to become the first carbon-neutral city in the UK

Discussion about this post

Review Finder

Latest News

US highways regulator gives greenlight to Einride’s autonomous electric freight vehicles

1st July 2022

Electrogenic launches ‘drop in’ kit to electrify Land Rover Defenders

30th June 2022

McMurtry’s electric car breaks speed record at Goodwood

30th June 2022

Trending

  • Elon Musk announces Tesla will switch to hydrogen in 2024

    4347 shares
    Share 1739 Tweet 1087
  • Was Nikola Trucks the biggest scam yet in electric vehicles?

    1688 shares
    Share 675 Tweet 422
  • Future electric cars: Best upcoming electric cars, SUVs and pickup trucks – 2021 UPDATE!

    1329 shares
    Share 548 Tweet 326
  • How to turn your favourite classic car into an EV

    1230 shares
    Share 509 Tweet 301
  • What makes an EV charging station accessible for people with disabilities?

    1127 shares
    Share 451 Tweet 282
  • About
  • Advertise
  • Privacy Policy
  • Contact the WhichEV team today

© 2022 WhichEV. Limited - All of the independent news and expert reviews you need in one publication.

No Result
View All Result
  • Buying Advice
  • Events
  • Features
  • News
  • Reviews

© 2022 WhichEV. Limited - All of the independent news and expert reviews you need in one publication.

This website uses cookies. By continuing to use this website you are giving consent to cookies being used. Visit our Privacy and Cookie Policy.