Help Your Home Products Talk To Each Other

IFTTT opens up its platform to individual developers who can create applets that will allow your home products to talk to each other.

20:38 29 May 2017

IFTTT, a San Francisco startup, is offering a smart solution to making smart home products talk to each other. The firm has opened its platform to individual developers encouraging them to use its tools in creating apps. For example, using IFTTT’s software, an app can be made to send a message to your smartphone when it is about to rain so your home sprinkle system can be automatically shut off.  

 

Although IFTTT has already provided its users with thousands of apps that can connect various devices together, there are plenty of other potential connections that could be made.

 

IFTTT’s CEO Linden Tibbetts said: “Makers will fill in the gaps.”

 

Under the plans, individual developers will be allowed to create apps and publish them in IFTTTs app store for free. They will also be able to link together services or devices offered by any of IFTTT’s more than 430 partners including Philips Hue, Nest and Netgear’s Arlo.

 

Tibbets said that they are considering allowing developers to charge for their apps.

 

"It's a big opportunity for the company to help our developers and services find new ways to monetize" their efforts, he said.