Get Ready for Lots of Alexa Smart Lamps

Amazon is quite open up about its goal for Alexa. Information technology wants the intelligent voice assistant everywhere and attainable in every room of your dwelling. In order to attain that, the visitor needs Alexa added to many more than devices beyond its ain Repeat range, so information technology created some white-box solutions including a design for a lamp.

Focusing on lamps makes sense for Amazon. Every home needs lights, and nosotros all put lamps in the rooms nosotros use the well-nigh, including the bedroom. But developing new hardware products tin be costly and takes a significant corporeality of time to go through the required testing. Amazon wants lamps, and more smart speakers for that affair, quickly. That'southward where these white-box solutions come in.

Qualified by Amazon Alexa Smart Lamp Adition

Amazon is offer "pre-tested, final-production designs qualified past Amazon" including two new smart speaker designs and one smart lamp. Any company can have these final-production designs and apply them as a base for their own branded smart devices safe in the knowledge Amazon will sell and support them.

The pre-tested products are offered through Amazon'south Original Design Manufacturers plan, which now includes 5 base devices from Wistron, Tonly, Narui, Junlam, and Adition. The smart lamp blueprint is past Adition and offers two 3W speakers and ii microphones. And so while it can exist used to talk to Alexa and help light a room, information technology doubles as a music player. The light is also dimmable, and if a company wants the design customized, Adition will be happy to do the work.

These "Qualified by Amazon" products are sure to take hold of the attending of manufacturers and brands. It may take a few months, but I suspect nosotros're going to see a major influx of new Alexa-powered smart speakers as well as a range of smart lamps hitting the marketplace.