Aragon – Offline voice control with “Snips”

Aragon allows offline voice control with Snips and therefore works without any cloud services. As a connected device that animates product interactions with customizable voice experience, Aragon associates offline with performance. Indeed, we value privacy and we want to help to protect it. With our assistant nothing of what is said will be recorded, everything stays in the room, it is Private-by-Design. All commands are processed directly on the Aragon server located on the device. We claim that system reliability for smart homes is only possible with non-cloud-based integration. No commands will depend on internet connection. No automatic, “silent” updates may impact the installation. Once it is installed, Aragon will work for several years exactly as it worked on the first day. Of course, there will be updates with improvements and additional features, but one can always choose whether it should be installed or not, nothing will impact or change the configuration without the users knowledge.

Vocabulary

With offline voice control with Snips the vocabulary is not restricted and remains just as varied. We can even say that in the field of home automation our solutions are more powerful than those of our competitors. Indeed, thanks to the “understanding of natural language” the possibilities of commands are numerous and various. Furthermore, we have the possibility to customize commands. Thus, it is possible to control and query the equipment in your home, light, television, shutters, heating, scenes… We recently added new features, such as a hospitality mode with “DND” or “MUR” functions, internet research for restaurants or POIs, the request for the date and time, the possibility of configuring an alarm and more. Three languages are available English, French and German.

English commands

Novelties with Aragon

The major change is it size. Indeed, Aragon can be embedded in the wall. It has been designed to fit in a flush-mounted in wall box like a switch. It is connected with one Ethernet cable and powered through PoE. This makes installation easier and quicker. The size reduction makes it almost invisible.

Furthermore, Aragon is compatible with many switch fronts of different manufacturers. It integrates in color and shape with all switch series of Jung (A-series, LS990, LS-zero, CD-design, Flat-design). It can be used with any frame of 55x55mm like Basalte, Gira, MDT Technologies, Hager, Schneider, Merten, ABB, Enertex and many more.

Endless integration possibilities with Node-RED

The extremely powerful but easy to use visual programming tool Node-RED is an additional highlight. Node-RED can easily be used for automation tasks by interconnecting function blocks. The programming of Node-RED requires no knowledge of a programming language. The user has access to our large library, which can be copied and adjusted. The library modules includes functions blocks as for example AND/ OR gates, or SMS & Push notifications on mobile phones up to complex alarm systems with unique features as dogs barking from the SONOS device. The speaker of the O-two can directly react to KNX events. For example, by speaking to the smoke alarm it will respond by giving instructions about the correct behavior in case of a fire. All these functionnalities are available to the constumer which can add freely new functions, this is why there are endless possibilities.

Configuration

The installation is designed to be real plug and play. At start-up Aragon behaves just like a dedicated mobile app of a home server system: It reads out the configured building structure with the names of rooms and functions, as well as the type of functions. The received names will be trained by Artificial Intelligence so that they will be understood together with complete sentences. Immediately afterwards it is able to control and query the installation by voice.

This version of Aragon Base is available for the following gateways:
- JUNG Smart Visu Server
- GIRA X1
- GIRA Homeserver (Version 4.10 or higher) in preparation
- ProServ
- all types of KNX / IP-Interface (tunneling or routing) / with additional configuration – no plug and play (KNX/IP)

NOTE: Aragon Base comes without frame. The frame has to be purchased separately from any other manufacturer who offers 55x55mm system frames (e.g. Jung - A or AS ranges)

Features

- First AI based voice control device for home automation which fits in a flush mounted box
- Compatible with all switch fronts in 55 x 55 mm
- Connected through PoE
- Voice commands are only processed locally
- Unrestricted vocabulary is learned dynamically via the AI of the software
- Automatic reading of the system configuration of a server for visualization (please contact us if your server is supported)
- Special functions for AAL: Help call, monitoring with automatic help request
- Hospitality functions: DND and MUR functions, dynamic language switch, set an alarm, ask for date and time, internet search for POI or restaurants, control the TV…
- Configurable voice announcements for KNX events
- Integration of SONOS speakers for voice output (instead of built-in loudspeaker, in preparation)

Downloads

ProKNX User Guide
Aragon Guide