Somfy and Monitorlinq Partner for Home Automation Offering

Joumard: Partnership with Monitorlinq is
Joumard: Partnership with Monitorlinq is “a natural fit”

Startup Monitorlinq has announces a strategic partnership with home automation company Somfy, to offer a range of connected home solutions. Through the partnership, monitorlinq will enhance the Somfy TaHoma home automation system with its own platform, adding services and alarms management.

All domestic equipment controlled by the TaHoma system, including critical energy-management devices; as well as devices connected to the monitorlinq service platform, such as activity trackers, personal alarms, weighing scales and blood pressure monitors; are converged to be a part of the new solution.

Typical use cases include monitoring an elderly person who wakes up in the night and wanders lost inside their home; remotely monitoring the correct administration of medication; receiving an alert when a child has not returned from school as normal; and remotely allowing home access for an authorised care professional.

The companies say the new TaHoma interface is intuitive and simple to use, offering modules dedicated to home comfort, personal wellbeing, safety and healthcare. The Monitorlinq platform allows several levels of connectivity for professional services, offering immediate options to dispatch critical alarms to security or tele-care experts. It’s a turn-key solution, ready for integration with mobile network operators and insurance providers, as well as professional alarm and care centres encompassing security, intrusion, and telecare.

“Our partnership with Monitorlinq is a natural fit,” said Somfy home automation director, Emmanuel Joumard. “This integration enables Somfy to offer a turn-key system of products and services, which are unique and innovative that will revolutionise the quality of life for the consumer and their close family network.”