At CES 2018, Legrand and Microsoft formalised the interoperability of their technologies to enable the development of smart buildings to be speeded up and to, thereby, enhance the user experience. Together, they will be developing new connected solutions, which will be based on Legrand’s product lines within the Eliot program, on the one hand, and the Microsoft Azure solution, on the other hand. The aim is to provide users with new experiences and to offer them new services via a cloud platform. This will favour the combination of Legrand and Microsoft solutions, as well as their scalability, which enables the benefits for clients to be multiplied.

A first on the American market : “Smart Lightings Controls from the radiant® Collection” is a new connected wiring devices solution available in the USA. This control solution enables you to control not only lights and electric sockets, but also other connected devices in your home. You can do this locally or remotely with a switch, a smartphone or vocally. “Smart Lightings Controls from the radiant® Collection” is compatible with over a hundred ecosystems (Google, Amazon, Samsung SmartThings and many others). It allows an accessible and customised experience of comfort in the connected home.

Even before its official launch, Céliane™ with Netatmo was exclusively chosen by BNP Paribas Real Estate for the first residential building incorporating connected devices in France. The interoperability of the cloud and Legrand solutions enables occupants to make the experience of the connected home compatible with IOS (“Home” by Apple), Android and other platforms such as La Poste’s digital hub, Samsung’s SmartThings, Google Home, Alexa by Amazon, etc.

The « Guest Room Management » offer

The “Guest Room Management” offer is a comprehensive solution for managing hotel rooms. The Marriott hotel group has formed a partnership with Samsung and Legrand in order to introduce connected devices into the world of hotels to give its customers a unique experience. The Legrand solutions can be seamlessly integrated into the SmartThings platform, the Samsung cloud. Marriott wants to take its establishments and its visitors into the era of the hotels of the future where experience is put at the heart of the business.

In the USA Legrand works with Ivani, a technological partner, on a project to anticipate behavior patterns. The idea is simple: by continually observing a consumer’s behavior, a switch will be able to anticipate their habits. Ivani provides sensing of presence rather than just movement. This solution has various applications particularly for the home, security facilities, hotels and commercial buildings.

The partnership with the startup Craft Ai, the winner at the Legrand/Samsung Artik hackathon organised at Viva Tech 2016, is another example of Legrand’s open approach. Craft Ai adds an artificial intelligence dimension to smart buildings. It makes it possible to imagine a self-learning building, which learns about users’ habits by gathering data from the various connected products in the building.