Colin Billings & Smart Home Lighting

Colin Billings has built something that I’m incredibly interested in generally: hardware that contributes to home automation. He built Orro, the first truly responsive lighting system, out of his own frustration with lighting’s adverse impact on his wellness and sleep. Now the Orro Switch adds the computational power of an iPhone XR inside the walls of a home. It detects your presence in a room and adjusts the lighting automatically to bring out the most natural light, reducing artificial light exposure that disrupts your body and sleep. Within a week, Orro learns your preferences and handles 95% of all the lighting adjustments, so you don’t have to think about your lights anymore.

Show Notes

* Colin Billings
* Orro
* Flux
* Contentful

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Colin Billings: The future existed where you just woke up and walked around a space, and the lights responded to you. We’ve seen that for a very long time. Clearly, a desirable experience. The question was how and was that possible to create?
 
Joe Casabona: Colin Billings has built something that I’m incredibly interested in, in general. Hardware that contributes to home automation. You see, he built Orro, the first truly responsive lighting system, out of his own frustrations with lighting’s adverse impact on his wellness and sleep. Now the Orro Switch adds the computational power of an iPhone 10r inside the walls of your home. It detects your presence in a room and adjusts the lighting automatically to bring out the most natural light. Reducing artificial light exposure, etc. etc.. I will let Collin get into all of this, but I think that this is a very interesting topic, especially because I’ve been focusing a lot more on automating my home now that I own one. I don’t want to spoil any more of the conversation. Let’s get to it. But first, a word from our sponsors.
 
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Joe: Hey everybody,