Hex Home Wins Red Dot Award for Innovative Design
Award Showcases System as the Next Generation of Home Security
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GREENBELT, Md., April 20, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Hex Home™, the world s first Wi-Fi Sensing home security system, has received a Red Dot Award: Product Design 2021 with the international jury awarding the one-of-a-kind home security system for its outstanding and innovative design. Powered by revolutionary ambient sensing and AI technology, Hex Home provides significantly greater accuracy and wider coverage than traditional security systems.
A standout amongst more than 18,000 entries, Hex Home is a DIY, waved-based home security system that requires only two sleek, modern devices a Hex Command (surface-sitting pod) and at least one Hex Sense (wall plug-in) to monitor a user s home using Wi-Fi waves. By monitoring how Wi-Fi waves bounce, break and bend around people, Hex is able to calculate the waves changes an
CES 2021: Hex Home Uses Wi-Fi Waves For Home Security Instead Of Cameras The Hex Home is a revolutionary take on home security Photo: Origin Wireless
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The Hex Home uses Wi-Fi wave movements to detect motion in a house
The Hex Home doesn t use any cameras, but provides more thorough coverage than traditional home security systems
Home security has traditionally involved cameras and lights, but tech company Origin Wireless knew there was a better way to keep a home secured. Cue the Hex Home, a device that senses Wi-Fi waves to detect movement.
Security cameras are pretty straightforward devices. They capture video feeds from where the lenses are pointed, and can often report to owners if there is any movement detected. The Hex Home is different in that there are no cameras. Instead, the Hex Home detects changes in Wi-Fi waves that are already bouncing around inside houses.
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Origin Wireless says it has a better way of securing your home. Instead of mounting motion detectors, door/window sensors, and security cameras all over your home, Origin’s Hex Home Security system uses a single Hex Command hub and a Hex Sense plug-in sensor to produce Wi-Fi radio waves, it then analyzes how those waves are disrupted as people move around your home.
I first became aware of Origin Wireless at the 2020 CES, when the company demonstrated its technology as part of Belkin’s Linksys Aware initiative. Linksys continues to offer Linksys Aware as an optional service with its Wi-Fi mesh routers. Origin’s Hex Home can be used with any manufacturer’s Wi-Fi router, whether it be a single access point router or a mesh network device because it only relies on the router for a broadband connection to send alerts. The Hex system itself blankets your home with Wi-Fi radio waves independent of your Wi-Fi router and then analyzes how those waves