Renault connect

GROUPE Renault is developing a service enabling automatic and secure interaction and communication between cars and connected objects in homes.

Otodo, a French company pioneering in smart-home connectivity, will secure the link between the vehicle and user’s home.

This innovative service will be available in all Renault cars that have EASY LINK, including the New ZOE, All-New Clio and All-New Captur.

With this new connectivity service from Groupe Renault, users will be able to control various objects in their home directly from their vehicle’s dashboard, as well as send instructions from their home, using a smartphone or connected speaker, to their connected Renault vehicle to prepare or share an itinerary, for example.

With this secure service, drivers can simultaneously control objects in their home from their car, allowing them to automate several of their routine tasks.

The system is easy to set up from the smartphone app:

- Users select the objects they want to include in the available scenarios, and the instructions associated with each object.

- The Leaving Home scenario puts their home to “sleep” (switching the thermostat to energy-saving mode, closing the shutters and turning off the lights, for example);

- The Arriving Home scenario wakes it up.

- Users then decide when they want the system to prompt them to activate the scenarios based on the distance between the vehicle and home.