Product Stories
All About Execution Part I: Inspiration and Motivation to Build the Smart Filter
Vents are filthy. We’ve been pulling old vents from walls and replacing them with shiny new robo vents for over a year now and...
Smart Zoning: For the Kids!
From Our Customers: How Smart Zoning Improved Their Lives
How Keen Home and Ecovent Joined Forces
Our favorite consumer tech
Tech publications love to rate and recommend products. As a tech company, our team is naturally drawn to consumer technology, so we thought it would...
Behind The Vents - Building Our Own IoT Platform
From open source packages to smart home hubs to SaaS platforms, these days there is no shortage of pre-packaged solutions to choose from when building...
Nest and Future Smart Vent Integrations
This is an updated version of our August 2015 post with the same title, originally posted on Medium. We’ve said it before: integration is good and...
Manufacturing The Smart Vent: Making It Work
Most people have no idea what goes into making the products they know and love. As a company dedicated to improving lives through hardware, we...
Keen Home's Arbor faceplate - Mathematics, Lasers and Designing Like Nature
The road to a customer-ready Arbor faceplate has been longer than we’d hoped, but we’re getting ready to produce. Lesson: working with wood can be...
Air purification and the next frontier of smart home comfort
If you were at CES 2016 and had an opportunity to drop by the Keen Home booth you probably noticed a new product on display....
Manufacturing the Smart Vent: Floor Rating
Air vents are typically installed in three locations: the wall, the ceiling, and the floor. That last one requires special consideration. Unlike wall and...
SmartThings and Smart Vents
If you are unfamiliar with SmartThings, it is a platform that connects hundreds of smart devices together and gives its community members the tools to...
What’s a Smart Bridge?
If you have smart home devices or are considering turning your home into a smart home, you’re probably aware that you need a smart bridge — a...
Manufacturing The Smart Vent: Batteries Included
Most people have no idea what goes into making the products they know and love. As a company dedicated to improving lives through hardware, we...
Manufacturing The Smart Vent: Good, Fast, Cheap — Choose Two
Most people have no idea what goes into making the products they know and love. As a company dedicated to improving lives through hardware, we...
Manufacturing The Smart Vent: Why China Is Essential
Most people have no idea what goes into making the products they know and love. As a company dedicated to improving lives through hardware, we...