March 28 2019 Look around your house. Which is the oldest  appliance  that hasn’t changed in years yet works just fine? Look up. It’s the ceiling fan. It is meant to do one job and it does a good job of that. Not really.
Indian  IoT brand Ottomate, has just launched a new range of smart fans, disrupting  the way we have operated fans all these years. There is no regulator: you  control your fan with a remote or a mobile app. And  you  don’t have 4 or 5 speed steps. Instead, there is a slider that lets you   continuously adjust the speed. Additionally, there are preset options such as the breeze mode, that creates a breeze effect even when your windows are closed. The Ottomate Smart Fan  has intelligence to sense the temperature and humidity levels in your room and adjust speeds accordingly. All  this  flows from Ottomate’s R&D centres in Bangalore and Hyderabad,  where they leveraged  WiFi mesh technology and embedded  a Qualcomm 1020 chip in the fan.
The Ottomate smart fan costs Rs. 4,199. If you are not convinced about having a smart fan just yet, you can opt for the Ottomate Smart-Ready fans at Rs. 3,199 and Rs. 2,999 for four and three blade variants respectively. You can smarten these fans later  by adding  a cassette module.