Smart home and gadgets have become a way of living, but so many can become eyesores and throw off the interior design, so a story about the must-haves every home (and often every room in the home) needs and those that are designed with sleek aesthetic in mind to purposely fit right into the home’s design.
In comes Hive, a leading smart home technology provider with more than 1.5 million customers worldwide.
It focuses on making everyday life a little easier, freeing people up to spend time doing the things they love. Its growing family of smart products and services work together effortlessly to better connect users to their home and to loved ones, helping to give peace of mind and make daily living more enjoyable.
Hive’s technologies span home automation, heating and cooling, home security, care, and home diagnostics, with a product range that includes smart cameras, lights, plugs, sensors and the UK’s number one smart thermostat.
Everything Hive creates is developed from customer insight; resulting in intuitive, easy to use technology that is accessible, affordable, and gives everyone the opportunity to experience the smart home.
Its products are thoughtfully designed, with award-winning industrial leading industry designer Yves Behar collaborating to develop its thermostat and cameras, ensuring they’re striking to look at, but technology that’s accessible to everyone.
The Hive app brings everything together, making managing your smart technology simple all from the user’s phone, wherever users are, with Hive Actions connecting and instructing the devices to react in the way users want them to, making the smart home a reality. Furthermore, Hive’s devices work with Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant and Philips Hue to provide further ways of connecting to your home.
Hive is part of the Centrica family and is a sister business to leading U.S. energy provider Direct Energy. Hive present in six markets, US, Canada, UK, Ireland, Italy and France, with its technology available online, Amazon and several big-box retailers like Walmart and Target, as well as its partners like Direct Energy and Simple Energy.
Devices:
- Hive Active Thermostat: Cool or heat your home and conserve energy at the same time. The beautifully designed ENERGY STAR rated Hive Active Thermostat lets you control your home temperature from your smartphone.
- Hive View: Our stylish smart indoor camera, packed with must-have features like HD live-streaming night vision, two-way audio, activity zones, downloadable clips, person detection, and grab and go camera.
- Hive View Outdoor: Protect your home with our new outdoor security camera, equipped with everything the Hive View offers, encased in a weatherproof unit.
- Hive Video Playback: Owners of our cameras receive free access for 24 hours to view and download captured content, but with Hive Video Playback you get access to content captured over the last 30 days. As a first-time Video Playback customer, get your first month free if you choose monthly payments.
- Hive Active Plug: Hive Active Plugs make your existing home appliances smart. Now you can turn your appliances on and off from anywhere or have them switch off automatically when you don’t need them.
- Hive Active Light Color Changing: Match your lighting to your moods with our color-changing smart bulb, with 16 million colors. Illuminate your room with splashes of color at the touch of a button.
- Hive Active Light Cool to Warm White: Match the lighting to your mood. If you’re working late, keep it cool white. If you’re done for the day, relax with warmer white. Simply adjust your Cool to Warm White smart bulb from your smartphone.
- Hive Active Light Dimmable: Down for Sunday night, up for Monday morning: Set your dimmable smart bulb to the level you want with a tap of the Hive app.
- Hive Motion Sensor: Relax. Our Hive Motion Sensor lets you know everything’s okay back home, so you can take it easy wherever you are. They use infrared technology to detect motion in your home, and if anyone or anything is moving about unexpectedly, you get an alert on your smartphone, tablet or laptop. They’re easy to install and beautifully discreet. Place the wireless sensors on a flat surface or use the self-adhesive tape to attach them to a wall.
- Hive Window or Door Sensor: Enjoy life to the fullest, knowing that everything’s okay at home with your Hive Window or Door Sensor. Our Window or Door Sensor lets you know everything’s okay back home so you can take it easy wherever you are.
- Hive Hub 360: Hive Hub 360 is our most advanced hub yet; as well as connecting your Hive devices it detects important sounds around your house like your smoke alarm and sends you a notification.
