Electrical market veteran will build out North American network of Shelly distributors. Allterco Robotics US (Las Vegas): Timothy Young is now leading the company’s distributor program in North America. With three decades of industry leadership, including a position on the National Association of Electrical Distributors (NAED) Board of Directors, Young will leverage his deep market…
When I first tried out a LIFX Z LED strip, I was amazed at how it was able to produce a range of white colours along with great-quality colours. Compared to cheap LED strips, which were fairly dim and couldn’t produce realistic yellows or whites, it was a revelation. Now, I know that it’s because…
The motion sensor is finally moving into the 21 Century. Decades ago, it was a major leap when PIRs moved from hardwired to wireless battery-powered devices. Now, Bulgaria-based Allterco Robotics (BSE: A4L) is helping to make the next major leap in motion sensor technology with its $39 Wi-Fi-based Shelly Motion, a next-generation motion sensor with…
If you own a smart home, chances are you have some amount of voice control already set up. But why should you tell your home what to do? Why not empower it to anticipate you instead? The $39.90 Shelly Motion sensor promises to do that. It’ll turn on your lights when you enter a room…
Allterco Robotics has added a new IoT motion sensor, the Shelly Motion, to its Shelly product line that I believe many people will find useful in their smart home designs. I recently wrote about the line of Shelly IoT relays. Shelly smart home products [https://shelly.cloud/] are manufactured by Allterco Robotics, one of seven companies that…
For the past few months, I’ve been getting emails from podcast listeners asking me about Shelly, a brand of smart home devices that I’ve long associated with Europe. It turns out that this time last year, Allterco Robotics, the company behind the Shelly devices, launched the brand in the U.S., although the pandemic subsequently muted…
Shelly is a sub-brand of a Bulgarian company, Allterco, which recently began making its products available in the U.S. While it initially built its name on more contractor-level wiring components, the Shelly brand has expanded to include consumer-grade gear, including light bulbs, sensors, and this plug-in smart switch. It’s called the Shelly Plug US because…
Shelly is not a name that every smart home enthusiast is familiar with in the U.S., but it is a well-established brand in Europe and other parts of the world. Doug Roberson, chief technology officer of Allterco Robotics U.S. provided me with a few Shelly products to test. Shelly smart home products are manufactured by…
