Josh.ai is fulfilling its mission to revolutionize home control through seamless integration and elegant user experiences across the smart home. At CEDIA 2024, Josh.ai is launching AI OS, the industry’s first AI powered control platform, while providing attendees with a first look at its Josh Touchscreen and Josh Edge hardware products.
AI OS utilizes the latest advancements in AI to auto-configure systems, enhance user interactions, and make the smart home truly intelligent. Every product in the Josh.ai ecosystem is connected via AI OS. From remotes to touchscreens and everything in between, the unifying platform offers limitless personalization and unparalleled simplicity. The company’s new products and features illustrate Josh.ai’s evolution as a complete control system as well as its commitment to its network of more than 1,800 certified dealers.
“We are proud to lead the industry in AI and push the limits of what this technology can provide our dealers, while staying true to our values to deliver simple, reliable, and delightful products for our customers,” said Josh.ai CEO Alex Capecelatro. “Josh Touchscreen and Josh Edge remote represent significant milestones for our company. With these two products we believe every home should be running Josh.ai for control, and we can’t wait to share that vision at CEDIA with our community!”
Since its founding in 2015, Josh.ai has worked to disrupt the custom electronics industry with cutting edge software development. AI OS represents the company’s next achievement as the foundation powering the Josh App, Josh.ai microphones, Josh.ai control processors, web-based Josh Portal, and its two new interfaces; Josh Touchscreen and the Josh-Ready AVA Cinema Remote. Users can flexibly access their whole-home, make device-specific adjustments, or customize individual room configurations to tailor an intelligent living experience.
Included Features in AI OS:
- ImageGen: AI generated images for customizing every client’s user interface.
- AI Voices: A more natural voice assistant for each home.
- Intelligent Security Integration: Proactive Property Protection.
- Advanced AV Distribution: A synchronized entertainment experience.
- DoorLink: Connected communication for complete access control.
- JoshGPT 2.0: Pioneering the next era of generative knowledge for intelligent living.
- Smart Support Tools: Enabling clients and dealers with rapid supportability.
- Automated Lighting Effects: Transformative environmental effects
- Nimble Devsuite 2.0: Home Intelligence expands to pool and spa control.
AI Powered Image Generation
AI OS offers limitless customization possibilities by incorporating AI powered image generation to enhance the visual appeal for clients using the Josh App, Josh Touchscreen, and Josh-Ready AVA remotes. The real-time creation of high-quality, personalized images for scenes, devices, rooms, and areas add a unique touch for each project’s graphical user interfaces.
AI Powered Voices
The Josh.ai voice experience becomes even friendlier and more natural with the rollout of nineteen new synthetic AI voices. Thanks to significant advancements in generative AI over the last year, Josh.ai is excited to update all systems with an array of new gender, tone, and accent oriented options. In doing so, delivering a new preferred default voice along with enabling more diverse and personalized interactions in every home.
Intelligent Security Solutions
As a complete smart home operating system, AI OS fulfills a critical need for property owners with the launch of Josh.ai’s security and alarm system capabilities. Like every Josh.ai integration, Elk and additional supported security providers are automatically discovered on the local network. Once authorized, Josh.ai’s touch, text, and voice interfaces consolidate control while enabling users to customize automations and push notifications leveraging their security devices. Customers will be able to arm, disarm, and set their systems to arm-away mode. The state of the alarm panel can also send users a push notification, trigger a scene, or be activated by a scene such as “Goodnight” given by voice, the app, a button press, or a conditional automation.
Josh.ai will also enhance its security features by introducing a new capability called Josh Vision that takes surveillance insight to the next level. Homeowners can simply ask, “Hey Josh, what is happening at the front door?“ Josh.ai will then analyze the camera feed and intelligently describe what it sees to make home monitoring easier and more interactive.
Additionally, AI OS will enhance the quality and refresh rate of live camera streaming in the Josh App and on Josh Touchscreen. Users can view real-time streams and take action from anywhere in the world.
Advanced AV Distribution
AI OS enhances entertainment experiences throughout the home with its AV distribution advancements. Featuring the connection and synchronization of media sources across different output zones in the home, users can seamlessly transfer content that is currently playing from one area to another. Conveniently managed through the Josh App’s updated video controller or with a simple voice command like, “Hey Josh, listen to the living room TV in the kitchen,” this updated functionality ensures a cohesive and flexible entertainment experience everywhere a client would like to leverage their multi-zone environment.
DoorLink
In a forthcoming update, AI OS will introduce two-way communication between the Josh App and Josh Touchscreen with integrated door stations. This intercom functionality enables clients to speak with their visitors from anywhere in the home, or in the world when they are on-the-go, to conveniently manage entry without compromising security. Homeowners can easily communicate with guests, verify identities, and grant access to their property with a few simple voice commands, or taps in the Josh App or Josh Touchscreen. For example, Josh.ai can alert a homeowner if someone is at their front gate and, without getting out of their seat, they can simply tell Josh.ai to open their gate all using natural voice commands.
JoshGPT 2.0
Building on the success of the initial launch of JoshGPT, empowering users with access to trillions of data points for intelligent assistance, JoshGPT 2.0 incorporates the latest advancements in large language model (LLM) technology. The update improves query accuracy while decreasing response time, optimizing answers to everyday questions and complex calculations. AI OS adds JoshGPT 2.0 access to Josh Touchscreen and the Josh-Ready AVA Cinema Remote, as well as automatically updating across all of Josh.ai’s text and voice interfaces.
Smart Support Tools
In an effort to provide dealers and clients with best-in-class supportability, AI OS includes tools for streamlined system oversight and troubleshooting. Thanks to features like direct-to-dealer outreach in the Josh App as well as the optimization of remotely accessible diagnostic tools in the web-based Josh Portal, customers and dealers can efficiently communicate to ensure everything is running smoothly.
Advanced Lighting Effects
AI OS introduces customizable lighting effects that elevate and transform the ambiance in every room. With advanced lighting capabilities, like dynamic color patterns and engaging animations, users can easily create a relaxing atmosphere featuring soft hues or energize a space with vibrant vitality. AI OS allows for intuitive control and customization over lighting environments to match any mood or occasion.
The Josh App and Josh Touchscreen expand upon this functionality with a new area-level color selector. This feature allows users to select lighting colors for the whole home, or to granularly set the ambiance in specific areas or rooms.
Pool & Spa Automation
In a forthcoming update, AI OS will include the launch of pool and spa support to expand Josh.ai’s home intelligence to exterior living spaces. A new device category in the Josh App, Josh Touchscreen, and accessible with conversational voice commands, clients will enjoy seamless access to their connected pools and spas. Customers will experience intuitive control of their water features with the ability to create custom automations for unparalleled convenience. For example, it has never been easier to adjust the spa temperature and jets than by asking, “Hey Josh, at sunset set the spa to 102 degrees and turn on the jets.”
Josh Touchscreen: An AI-Enabled Control Panel
Josh Touchscreen provides dealers with a room-specific control interface and whole-home accessibility that simplifies installations while boosting value for their business. As with all Josh.ai products, Josh Touchscreen is exclusively available through authorized dealers, provides generous resale margin, and may be added a la carte to every room of the home. By integrating a wall-mountable graphical interface into its hardware lineup, Josh.ai is providing clients with the best of traditional control along with industry-leading innovation and AI capabilities.
Highlighted by a specially designed room-level view that offers simplicity and convenience, users are empowered to personalize each room’s controls and appearance to suit their preferences. Whole-home access to all connected devices, scenes, and custom dashboards is also made easy. Naturally, Josh.ai’s industry-leading voice control is accessible via a tap-to-talk built-in voice button. Josh Touchscreen understands conversational commands and knows the floor plan of a client’s property for location aware interactions. Intelligent assistance with JoshGPT is also available with access to trillions of data points across limitless use-cases. Enabled with VoiceCast and VoiceLink support, Josh Touchscreen is able to audibly respond to voice commands through a room’s integrated speakers for an immersive user experience.
Available in Polished Black and Ceramic White, the 8” high-performance IPS glass screen perfectly complements a modern home’s decor with an always-available control interface. The edge-to-edge glass display features capacitive touch, a quad-symmetric core processor, as well as proximity and light sensors. Josh Touschreen’s sensors have the power to simplify smart home interactions by automatically activating scenes and sending push notifications.
Installers have the flexibility to easily mount Josh Touchscreen in a North American single or double-gang cutout, flush mount with forthcoming partner solutions, or position it on a tabletop for seamless accessibility. Josh Touchscreen is hardwired and powered over ethernet (PoE) for stability, with WiFi compatibility for tabletop deployments. From a supportability perspective, Josh Touchscreen can be accessed in the web-based Josh Portal for technicians to view diagnostic tools, troubleshooting logs, and device settings from anywhere via a secure web connection. Offering this level of remote monitoring ensures that installers can provide prompt and effective support, increasing customer satisfaction and service efficiency.
Josh Edge
Presented exclusively to authorized dealers following the Josh.ai Winter Launch Event, Josh Edge provides simple and intuitive handheld control in the home. Based on years of partner input, dealers were given the chance to back the project if they wanted Josh.ai to build it. In the first hour, Josh.ai reached its crowdfunding goal to move forward and build Josh Edge. At CEDIA Expo, backers and all attendees will have the opportunity to see Josh Edge on display for the first time as Josh.ai continues making strides to begin shipping by the end of 2024.
Machined out of aluminum for durability, Josh Edge seamlessly combines elegant and ergonomic design into a complementary hard button companion. The remote has an expected battery life of three months on a single charge, achieves a price point that dealers are excited about, and includes key features with its button mapping and side volume control. Central to the product is a tap-to-talk near-field voice control button. Josh Edge is location and contextually aware, so commands like “open the shades” or “watch ESPN” are a snap! In addition, JoshGPT provides immediate answers to any question a client might ask. Below the voice button, the bottom half of Josh Edge is dedicated to media control with a multi-directional navigation pad and AV buttons for a universal remote control experience with Apple TV, Roku, Kaleidescape, Dish, and Xfinity.
At the top of Josh Edge is perhaps the most user-friendly feature. A set of 6 custom buttons that are entirely swappable based on a client’s needs for any particular area. The upper buttons offer the ability to control specific devices in the room like lights, shades, fans, and music. The buttons can also be used to activate custom scenes like, Movie Time and Room Off, or can be configured to execute more video commands. For example, to toggle TV subtitles or provide shortcuts to favorite channels and services like Dish. This limitless ability to customize Josh Edge is important as it enables dealers to configure the product for a particular room, while providing simple buttons to control whatever is most important for their client. The buttons are designed to be backlit, which was another feature built with dealer feedback in mind.
