Demo 2012 People’s Choice winner Ube (pronounced “yoo-bee”), the company started by former CEDIA president Utz Baldwin has launched an Indiegogo campaign to support its Wi-Fi connected Smart Dimmer. This dimmer is designed to control household light circuits by replacing a homeowner’s current light switch or dumb dimmer, allowing full control of the lights from the switch or from a smartphone app. The dimmer connects to the homeowner’s home Wi-Fi router and is then controllable from a smartphone while connected to the local home network or from any internet connection worldwide.

The URL for Ube’s Indiegogo campaign ishttp://igg.me/at/ube/x/1805061

Ube is a mobile platform company making solutions for the connected home as part of the world. Ube’s technology is designed to control a new genre of electronic “appcessories” from a free smartphone app. This technology eliminates the need for expensive custom control systems to control home electronics and instead uses IP communication protocols for control of a variety of connected home electronics.

These Smart Dimmers are priced from $49 to $69 on Indiegogo and have a variety of features not found on other dimmers designed for home use.

• A free mobile app to run on your smartphone
• Dimmers can communicate with each other to control lights across a room or entire house
• Users can set lighting “scenes” such as “party,” “dinner,” “all-on” or “all-off,” etc.
• Each dimmer has sub-metering to report energy usage for each light switch allowing users to monitor and control their lighting bills
• Dimmers control any 120V dimmable bulb including incandescent, fluorescent and LED
• Users can create an “away” mode to automatically turn on and off lights to mimic home presence for security

Users who order these dimmers can expect delivery starting in June 2013. Go here to see it: http://myube.co/