Ambient Alarm Clock

A simple but effective alarm clock that plays you some music, offers you the news, turns on the light and more. Ambient Technology is the vision of technology that adapts your surroundings to your needs and offers services to improve your live using sensing and acting technology.

Imagine your coffee machine turning on 5 minutes before your alarm clock rings so you always wake up to the scent of fresh coffee. Imagine music slowly swelling up while the lights simulate a sunrise. Imagine the heating in your bath turning on before you step into your bath and all of it controlled by your alarm time instead of at a fixed time. Using Home Automation technology from ezControl, the Philips Hue and other technologies the Ambient Alarm Clock makes these scenarios possible.

Alarm Clock

- Alarm Clock that wakes you up with music of your choice.
- You can chose what songs you want to wake up to by selecting a folder on your device with music (or use DropBox). The alarm clock will select one song out of the selected folder at random.
- You can have the song fade in slowly or start loud.
- Define your own snooze time or if you even want a snooze button shown at all.
- Choose a set of actions for each alarm which are then performed by the clock. Actions can include control over light, music or home appliances as well as data shown on the device.
- Each action can be activated individually on a chosen time before or after the alarm.

Website on wake up
- Define a web site to be shown on your device on alert (for example a news web site).

Countdown on wake up
- You don't have all the time in the world. You need to get the bus? You always want to know how much time is left until you need to get out? Activate the countdown, which will start with the first alarm and tell you when you have to go. The alarm clock can, if you want it to, stop the alert when the countdown has run out, so you don't even have to be there any more.

Reminder to go to bed
- Get a reminder to go to bed several hours before the alarm rings (you can define how many hours)
- Get the reminder send to you via email.

Radio Player
- Listen to the radio after the alarm has rung. You have the choice between several radio stations

DropBox Integration
- Use either a local folder or define a DropBox folder to synchronize your wake up songs. You can chose what songs to wake up to by just putting it into the folder.

Last FM Integration
- Scrobble the song you woke up to on last.fm

Philips Hue Integration
- Turn on the lights when its time to wake up with the Philips Hue that can be connected with almost no effort.
- Choose to fade in the light slowly.
- Choose the color of light to wake you up.

Home Automation
- Control home appliances like your coffee machine or the heating with the EZControl Home automation server
- Control the heating via EZControl.