He didn’t want to rely on his phone all the time for control, and he didn’t want the hit or miss of depending on voice control. The CEO of Brilliant Control was renovating his home and couldn’t find a seamless way to interact with the smart home features he was baking into the residence. For example, I have a Phillips Hue switch in the bedroom so Raina doesn’t have to complain about having to always speak to Alexa to turn on the bedroom lights, and I am reviewing the Logitech Pop switch, but those are somewhat limited in what they can do. Smart home accessories makers have tried to jump into the mix. And while you can use your phone or tablet to control your smart devices, or you can use Amazon’s Alexa to control it by voice, neither of those options is as simple as the good old-fashioned action of flipping a switch. After all, when you have a smart light or a smart fan, a dumb switch just doesn’t cover it. The explosion of smart home technology has prompted the need for someone to rethink this ubiquitous device. Sure, you can get Decora switches that look sleeker, and you can get dimmer switches but, for the most part, a switch is a switch is a switch. In all that time the switch you find in numerous places throughout your home hasn’t changed all that much. This year is the 100th anniversary of the light switch. I’m getting ahead of myself though so let me step back.

(To be accurate it is more like four smart home accessories that are all based on the same design and functionality. That simple answer explains the idea behind this new smart home accessory that will hit the shelves in late 2017.

No mobile app required! Just use touch or voice as soon as you enter the room.” It replaces an existing light switch to give you and your family easy access to lighting and other smart home products like Sonos, Nest, and more. As they explain, “That’s why we built the Brilliant Control. The people behind the Brilliant Control were sick and tired of needing their smartphone to adjust lights, play music and do any number of the things that smartphones are now able to do. The people behind Brilliant Control asked a simple question: “Are you tired of digging for your mobile phone every time you want to adjust your smart lighting, music, or climate systems?” That’s obviously a rhetorical question, and their answer is one that is poised to take the exploding smart home market by storm.

Brilliant smart switch