Smart Home

Overview

In an ever increasingly connected world, smart home appliances and home automation systems are becoming more popular as a means to control multiple systems within the home. Traditionally, smart home control systems include control panels which centralise functionality and provide users with the main point of interaction with the smart home system. Designers who wish to implement a stylish and user-friendly control interface are opting for touchscreen displays in their products.

Using an EVE-enabled colour touch screen brings the following benefits for smart-home control systems:

• Create a stylish and user-friendly control panel with ease
• Implement touch functionality easily
• Support multiple languages for different regions
• Customise the style and branding with fonts and images
• Use EVE’s audio generation to confirm touches and sound alerts or notifications

Key Features:​

The following key features of EVE make it ideal for a smart home application:​

• Capacitive touch allows a more intuitive user interface and can replace mechanical controls
• Touch tagging and tracking make touch controls easy and efficient to implement
• Supports a whole range of screen sizes (e.g. 3.5”, 5”, 7”, 10.1”, circular) to suit all types of applications
• Screen rotation feature allows landscape panels to be used in a portrait orientation
• Extensive image support for backgrounds, logos, and button icons
• Direct EVE-attached flash allows storage of vibrant images and content without burdening the host MCU
• Extensive widget support for gauges, buttons, text and other common controls
• Custom fonts allow multi-language support
• Built-in audio tone generation makes it easy to acknowledge user input and sound user alerts
• Quick learning curve for designers new to graphic displays thanks to extensive tool support and examples