Shenzhen Sonoff Technologies Co., Ltd
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| Industry | Smart devices, IoT |
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| Headquarters 🏙️ | , Shenzhen, Guangdong , China |
Area served 🗺️ | Worldwide |
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| 🌐 Website | sonoff |
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Shenzhen Sonoff Technologies Co., Ltd (stylized as Sonoff), is a Chinese manufacturer of Smart devices products based in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China. Sonoff is the primary manufacturing subsidiary for Smart Home Devices of ITEAD Intelligent Systems Co., Ltd. a Chinese tech company based in Shenzhen.
Sonoff brand name[edit]
The brand name Sonoff stay for "Smart On-Off": the name born with the first smart devices produced by the company "Sonoff Basic Switch". The device is built with the ESP8266, a low-cost Wi-Fi microchip that can easily turn on/off remotly a connected light or device.
Product ranges[edit]
All the devices produced by Sonoff are centered on the Smart home technology using a Wi-Fi signal and/or a 433Mhz signal; the products are part of the following categories:
- Wi-Fi Smart Plug
- Wi-Fi Smart Bulb
- Wall Touch Switch
- Smart Appliances
Remote app[edit]
All the smart products sell by Sonoff are connected and managed by the App eWeLink - Smart Home Center, a free smart home APP that manage and control various brands of smart devices. The mobile app for Android ed IOS is built on cloud Amazon AWS and managed by a Chinese IT Solution Provider Shenzhen Cool Home Technology Co., Ltd..[1]
Sonoff Smart Switches[edit]
Sonoff Smart Switches are a WiFi smart switches that allows users to remote control the power of lights/electrical-appliances with a Mobile App. Because all of this smart switches are a ESP8266 based device, this brand is very famous on the open-source community. There are Open Source project built using Arduino framework: for an alternative firmware, with repository for open source code and pre-compiled binaries.
- Sonoff-Tasmota standing for Theo-Arends-Sonoff-MQTT-OTA, project started by Theo Arends in January 2017[2]
- ESPurna project started by Xose in May 2016 (the name play on the Catalan word for "spark")[3]
- ESPEasy started in December 2015 by a Dutch team called "Lets Control It"[4]
Changing the firmware excludes the possibility of using the original Mobile App for manage and control the device.
See also[edit]
- ESP32 – the Wi-Fi microchip
- Internet of things
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