Savant is adding several new features to its Savant Essentials Software as a Service (SaaS) subscription business model, including homeowner management tools, a software-based Intercom service, enhanced private voice control, and smart networking. The company’s subscription model was introduced late 2021, bringing tremendous value to the homeowner as well as opportunity to custom integration professionals. The company‘s base subscription, Savant Essentials, delivers access to the latest smart home features and advanced integrations, plus enhanced support, and serviceability with the Savant Home Back-Up & Restore feature.
Savant Home Back-Up & Restore: Available now, the Home Back-Up & Restore feature is part of a Savant Essentials subscription and leverages secure cloud-based capability to store key parameters and settings of the smart home so that vital client personalization features can be restored when hardware is updated.
Savant Home Manager: Available beginning October 2022, Home Manager delivers the first web UI smart home dashboard designed for the Savant homeowner. With Home Manager, homeowners now have access to key system status visibility, online user management capabilities, quick-view camera recordings, active cloud integration status, and access to product tutorial and frequently asked questions.
Home Manager is designed to help integrators educate new homeowners about their system capabilities, as well as deliver advanced system visibility and management tools.
Savant Intercom Service, Enhanced Secure Voice Control, and Smart Networking: Available in early 2023, the Intercom Service delivers room-to-room communication throughout the home without the need for dedicated intercom server hardware. The Intercom Service can be added to any Savant smart home with a Savant Essentials subscription and is fully customizable to the needs of each client, including features such as user-configurable call groups, call alerts via push notifications, and an optional page-all feature over the home’s distributed audio system.
Secure Voice delivers natural language offline processing of voice commands, with activation via hands-free, in-room microphones as well as push-to-talk on the Savant Pro Remote X2. Push-to-talk requires the user to press and hold the voice button on the Pro Remote X2foractive listening to take place. Enhanced voice control can be added to a smart home with a Savant Essentials subscription to activate/control Savant scenes, services, channel favorites, volume, and individual lighting loads.
Network AI is delivered in partnership with Juniper Networks, a global leader in professional networking, and is designed to deliver custom integrators access to cutting-edge, enterprise-grade networking solutions that are easy to design, deploy and troubleshoot. Features consist of zero-touch provisioning, including automated Savant device discovery and dynamic port configuration, network optimization using advanced learning algorithms, and machine learning analysis of the user experience to correlate problems and automatically detect root cause. Network AI requires a scalable subscription determined by network size.
