Angee

About this project

Angee gives you a full 360° view of your home — with voice recognition, at-the-door identification, motion-detecting rotation, advanced learning, cordless portability, and a number of additional features, all without any subscription fees. Angee is a welcome addition to any space.

Home is where we keep everything precious to us. But existing security systems are not smart, and are frustrating to use. Angee combines complex technology and beautiful design in an intelligent system that’s personalized, completely automated and incredibly easy to use.

Home security is a necessity, but it doesn’t have to be a burden. Even when you are home, Angee’s got you covered. Record and stream videos, check your calendar — it’s voice controlled and very clever.

          “This crowdfunding project is probably the most impressive home security product I have reviewed, to date.” – indiegogo

“Angee automated home security system doubles as a personal assistant.” – gizmag

“Angee is freaking awesome…” – securitygem

“A new kind of home security. Smart, voice controlled and autonomous.” – Robert Siciliano

“The idea of the Echo’s capabilities packed into a rotating security cam is quite appealing” – CNET.com

Angee couldn’t be simpler to set up. Simply unbox it, connect it with your smartphone, add security tags at entry points around your house, and your home is completely secured.

Whether it’s for your smartphone, iPad or your smart watch we have designed the mobile experience to be the perfect natural extension of the experience you have using Angee. Connect to your home from anywhere and instantly understand what’s going on there.

Our smart watch app is a natural extension of Angee, giving you instant access to what is going on at home. We support Apple, Android, and now Pebble OS too! Using your smart watch, you can stay up to date with the most important notifications. You are swiftly alerted when something is wrong, or if you simply want updates on temperature, humidity or presence of people at your home or office.

Angee arms and disarms based on your proximity through a two-step authentication process of phone and voice recognition. No need to enter a code every time you enter or leave your home.

Putting trained guards at all your windows and doors would be foolproof, but not very convenient. The entrances and exits of your home are the most important places to monitor, and that’s why Angee is the world’s first smart security system with complete perimeter security. Just stick security tags on doors and windows and Angee will know exactly who comes and goes.

Angee’s built-in battery enables it to sustain power in case of an outage. You’ll receive a notification if the power goes out and Angee will continue monitoring. If your WiFi goes offline, Angee will notify you and continue to record any activity at home, saving the footage to its local storage.

Angee detects activity 360° around it and can turn towards whatever is happening in the vicinity. You’ll have a complete view of what’s going on at your home, even when you’re away. Angee’s state-of-the-art motion-tracking technology is also great for streaming and recording family videos.

With Angee you can easily set up to four ‘activity zones’ which Angee can keep watch over specifically. Angee can keep an eye on your back door, work station, or any other area, and alert you if anyone trespasses in these zones.

Angee tells you what’s happening at home via a streamlined mobile app. You’ll receive an instant notification if something out of the ordinary happens, and you can also use the app to connect with Angee remotely to see what it sees.

Privacy is the flip-side of security. Who wants to be on camera all the time? Angee gets that. So it will turn away whenever you ask, whether you’re having a romantic moment or you just need some privacy. Or you can set it not to record you, and only film people it doesn’t recognize. Angee monitors when and how you want it to.

You talk – Angee listens. Angee can understand what you say and who you are. To give you the second step of authentication, set a voice password so that Angee can identify you. You can use your voice as a backup when your phone is dead. Angee is customizable and it’s up to you what level of security you choose.

A cool side effect of voice recognition is that all of its intelligent functionality is voice-controlled, so it gives you hands free communication, access to your favourite online services, and more. Angee also recognizes the voices of you and your family, so it will always personalize and contextualize its response.

Offering an optimal balance of security and convenience, Angee is great for home-owners, renters, travellers, small business owners, Airbnb-hosts, or anyone else in search of a little peace of mind.

The security element is paramount, but Angee does much more. Angee is a way to connect to your home, and to give you additional freedom and comfort when you’re there.

It can double as a personal assistant by recording those all-too-often missed moments, answering your phone calls, or checking your calendar. It can even remind you to close your windows if rain is in the forecast – all on voice command.

Angee is a great way to access your living room or your kids’ playroom. If you’re wondering what’s going on at the office, or you want to see if your parents are okay, simply check on the units there with the mobile app. With multiple Angees you can access and communicate with several locations, getting real-time information. It’s instant and amazing.

Angee uses smart triggers to detect and record events that matter, so you don’t have to waste storage of uneventful video footage. On top of this, we provide 1GB of free cloud storage – no monthly fees required!

Our system is autonomous. This is important because the only way to effectively secure your home is to eliminate human interaction, namely arming and disarming the system manually.

To make a system truly autonomous—a feat only we have achieved—requires making it work reliably. It all comes down to the ability of the system to sense human presence at home, no matter what room you’re in, at all times, and under all circumstances.

While other systems use only the main device to sense human presence, we use a combination multiple devices. Angee uses security tags to monitor the area effectively. The tags are placed at all entry points to your home and are a combination of motion and proximity sensors. They can detect when someone has entered or exited the area as well as create a network sensing the proximity of nearby phones more reliably than a single device ever could. As a result — Angee will always know who is at home.

To help evaluate what’s going on at home and whether there is a potential threat, Angee uses a combination of parameters, including entry and exit patterns, changes in the background noise, and voice differentiation, all while monitoring motion and background noise to identify and record any suspicious activity. Moreover, with Angee you can also easily set up to four activity zones in Angee’s sight. Angee will keep an eye on and alert you when these zones are trespassed. Angee is very easy to use—in fact it’s seamless—it just works.

Angee has been built with data protection best practices in mind. Angee core developers are experienced with real-time embedded software development. We are striving to develop high quality software by internally following similarly strict revision rules as they are used in the top open-source projects (i.e. Linux kernel).

Combining electronic and mechanical design as we developed Angee, we were confronted with paradoxes and contradictory demands on functionality. We set our goal clearly: To overcome these challenges without compromising the experience we envisioned, making the form substantial and the design compelling.

To build such an advanced system with great user experience, we often had to pioneer and innovate our way through. And the result? Form meets the desired function completely. You can read more about the challenges on our blog.

We will have an open REST API so other developers and enthusiasts can integrate Angee into their applications and solutions. IFTTT platform support will be also available to everyone.