The BeNext interface is the centre of the system that combines all of our services, in one simple user interface.
- Very user-friendly.
- Save up to 25% on your energy bill.
- Monitor and determine your energy usage yourself. Whenever you want and where in the world you are.
- The App for your tablet, PC and smartphone are free of charge (iOS and Android).
- Benefit from more than 20 years of experience in the field of smart homes.
- The system is expandable with more than 200 different types of products.
Lifestyles and Scenes
Lifestyles form the basis of the BeNext system. We provide three Lifestyles: Home, Away and Sleep. A Lifestyle represents the state of the system. For instance, in the Lifestyle Home you would like the lights on after sunset. However, when you are in Lifestyle Away you would like to leave all the lights off and make the alarm sound when someone enters your house.
A Scene combines multiple products in one collection. This allows you to, for example, switch multiple products on or off with one tap on the button. You can make as many scenes as you want to provide the ultimate level of control and flexibility.
Your home, your rules
A Rule is a method to connect to make BeNext products react to inputs and products. It is a flexible method to connect your products and other BeNext services.We provide simple wizards to automatically create complicated Rules. However, we realize that no single home is the same. Therefore we provide our powerful Rule Editor to easily personalize your BeNext system. With Rules you can easily:
- Respond to sensor events like motion detection and temperature change
- Create Lifestyle dependent events
- Create a time schedule for routine activities
- Control products and Scenes with any given input
- Send notification e-mails
- Respond to sunrise or sunset
- And many more!
Technology is where BeNext shines. Using state of the art Wireless and Cloud Technology, the BeNext system is able to provide realtime insights for your automated home.
The Gateway is the connection between your home and your personal BeNext interface. The Gateway controls the products in the wireless BeNext system and collects data from the sensors. It receives commands from the BeNext interface and sends back data over a secure internet connection.
Because Z-Wave is a worldwide standard, BeNext can connect with any product that speaks Z-Wave. This includes the wide array of Z-Wave enabled third party devices that are out there today. You can find more information about third-party product support here.
Gateway: heart of the BeNext system
The Gateway is the connection between your home and your personal BeNext interface. The Gateway controls the products in the wireless BeNext system and collects data from the sensors. It receives commands from the BeNext interface and sends back data over a secure internet connection.
Z-Wave: the wireless network
The Gateway uses Z-Wave to control products and collect data from the wireless home network. Z-Wave is a standardized, low power, bidirectional wireless network technology specially created for the home automation market.Because Z-Wave is a worldwide standard, BeNext can connect with any product that speaks Z-Wave. This includes the wide array of Z-Wave enabled third party devices that are out there today. You can find more information about third-party product support here.
Comfort and savings in one. With thee climate products of BeNext you can manage this yourself! There are several products that measure the temperature in your house. These measurements are shown in your online manager. In this way you have a clear insight in your energy usage and you can see directly where you can save money.
By creating Rules you can automate your products. This way your house always is at the preferred temperature and you are not heating unnecessarily.
Sometimes we forget, but the highest energy costs for our homes and offices go to the usage of gas, which is used to keep room temperatures levelled. Start saving energy by only heating up the necessary rooms and spaces at the right time of the day.
Rules
By creating Rules you can automate your products. This way your house always is at the preferred temperature and you are not heating unnecessarily.
Convenient examples of Rules:
- You want that the heating control will go on when you are coming home.
- You want the heating control will go off at 11 o’clock.
- You want the living room during the weekend to have a temperature of 20 degrees, but the bedroom has to be 17 degrees.
Do you want to know how you can create Rules? Go to this page.
Radiator Control
Sometimes we forget, but the highest energy costs for our homes and offices go to the usage of gas, which is used to keep room temperatures levelled. Start saving energy by only heating up the necessary rooms and spaces at the right time of the day.
The Radiator Control of BeNext is a replacing unit for your original radiator valve, which help you to automate the usage of heat. When all radiators in your home or office are equipped with the Radiator Control of BeNext you can start making ‘Rules’ and ‘Schedules’ with the effect of drastically lowering costs on your energy bill. You can control the Radiator Control manually but also remotely with your smartphone, tablet or PC within our free of charge online manager.
- Control and manage radiators individually, manually and/or remote
- Make big savings on your gas-usage by applying scheduling within the online manager
- The Radiator Control works on two AA batteries governing a lifespan of three years
- Receive push notifications when batteries are depleted
For other climate products, you can go to our webshop.
Automatically control
To automate your products, you can create Rules. Rules are settings made by you. You will never forget to change the temperature of the heating control when you go to bed, because this goes automatically. You created a Rule that the heating control will go to 15 degrees at 11 o’clock. Another advantage is that you never have to go downstairs to switch off the lights. So, Rules are not only helping you controlling your house, but everything will get more comfortable also.Do you like to know how you can add Rules? Then go to this page.
You can create Scenes. These Scenes ensure that all the chosen products react as you want, and all at the same time. By example the Scene ‘GoToBed’, in this Scene you have set that all the lights downstairs will switch off. Now, when you activate this Scene all the lights will directly switch off, at the same time.
Click here to see how you can add Scenes to your account.
Semi-automatically control
You can also control the products through the App or the website. Go to Live -> Product and choose the product you want to control. Select that product and decide what the product has to do (go on/go off/change temperature etc.).Manual control
You can always control your products manually. By using the button on the device you can switch products on and off or change the temperature. This comes in handy when there is no controller nearby or when the batteries are empty.
Saving energy is a prime focus for the BeNext interface. Every aspect, from the dashboards to energy pages themselves are tweaked to provide the best insight to your energy usage possible.
You can compare the total usage of your electricity meter with the individual usage of your devices through our Energy Switch. Full features include:
Plug-in your Energy Switch into any socket to read-out the amount of energy used. Remotely manage Rules and Schedules to reduce total energy usage in your office or home. The Energy Switch measures the exact energy usage in Watt’s or KWh, which can be found in the free of charge online manager. Within the online manager, you can broaden the functionality of the Energy Switch by creating custom Rules and Schedules for plugged-in devices. The Energy Switch can be switched on and off manually by pressing the On/Off button on the device. Take control remotely with your smartphone, tablet and PC. Use the Energy Switch in combination with your installed solar-panel to measure the exact electrical revenue. By doing this, you can compare the results in the free of charge online manager with the total electrical/energy consumption of the house.
Monitor energy usage
You can compare the total usage of your electricity meter with the individual usage of your devices through our Energy Switch. Full features include:
- Insight in total energy usage, returns and individual device usage
- Historic data usage: generate usage graphs from the first time you measured energy to the current day
- Easily compare different days, week, months or years
- Indicative costs
- Support for the Dutch Electrical and Gas Smart Meter standard, that most smart meters in the Netherlands are equipped with
Save money
We believe it is not good enough to just easily monitor your usage. You won’t actually save money until you change your usage. This is why all of our energy sensors are switches as well. Use our Energy Rules wizard for simple control over your usage or use our powerful Rule Editor to tweak your usage and see your savings go up and your energy bills down.Energy Switch
Plug-in your Energy Switch into any socket to read-out the amount of energy used. Remotely manage Rules and Schedules to reduce total energy usage in your office or home. The Energy Switch measures the exact energy usage in Watt’s or KWh, which can be found in the free of charge online manager. Within the online manager, you can broaden the functionality of the Energy Switch by creating custom Rules and Schedules for plugged-in devices. The Energy Switch can be switched on and off manually by pressing the On/Off button on the device. Take control remotely with your smartphone, tablet and PC. Use the Energy Switch in combination with your installed solar-panel to measure the exact electrical revenue. By doing this, you can compare the results in the free of charge online manager with the total electrical/energy consumption of the house.
For other energy products, you can go to our webshop.
Taking care of yourself, but also for the people around you. Taking care of your parents or parents in law. We have to do this all together. But how nice is it for the person who needs care that he or she is still able to continue living on their own, do the shopping and cooks for themselves? Independent living, but with remote assistance. This is all possible with the products of BeNext!
With the Panic Button you are just one press away from sending an emergency call. If you press the button on the Panic Button, an emergency message will be sent to a pre-defined email address.
The Panic Button has also two additional buttons which can be configured for any other use, like turning on/off lights quickly. Actions from the Panic Button can be programmed freely and according to your own wishes in our free of charge online manager.
The Panic Button operates on a single battery. The expected lifetime is one year and the Panic Button will send a warning automatically if the battery level degrades to less than 20%.With the sensor combination of movement, light and temperature you are able to utilize the MoLite Sensor for a variety of system features such as security and personal comfort.
Without knowing you’ll leave your room at night and you’re just walking around your house. Or this happens to your parents or parents-in-law. With this MoLiTe Sensor you make sure that, when this happens, someone will get a message or an alarm will sound. This way you avoid dangerous situations and everyone can go to sleep feeling safe.
Panic Button
With the Panic Button you are just one press away from sending an emergency call. If you press the button on the Panic Button, an emergency message will be sent to a pre-defined email address.The Panic Button has also two additional buttons which can be configured for any other use, like turning on/off lights quickly. Actions from the Panic Button can be programmed freely and according to your own wishes in our free of charge online manager.
The Panic Button operates on a single battery. The expected lifetime is one year and the Panic Button will send a warning automatically if the battery level degrades to less than 20%.
MoLiTe Sensor
With the sensor combination of movement, light and temperature you are able to utilize the MoLite Sensor for a variety of system features such as security and personal comfort.Without knowing you’ll leave your room at night and you’re just walking around your house. Or this happens to your parents or parents-in-law. With this MoLiTe Sensor you make sure that, when this happens, someone will get a message or an alarm will sound. This way you avoid dangerous situations and everyone can go to sleep feeling safe.
For other products you can visit our webshop.
Security rules
If you own any security product, we provide default Rules to instantly provide more safety. With the simple security Rule wizard you will be able to customize the following:
- Respond to motion or door sensors
- Sound the alarm
- Send e-mail notifications
The apps
Our apps are completely devoted to speed and usability for you.
Android
Requires Android version 5.0 or higher.
iOS
Requires iOS 8.0 or later.
Platform optimized websites
You want to control your home and you want to do it fast. After all, nobody likes waiting. That’s why we have special websites for laptops, tablets andmobile phones. All websites are optimized to get the most out of their respective platform while being blazingly fast at the same time. This provides you
with the best experience possible no matter how you want to control your home.
We’ve got Apps!
Besides websites we also want to provide the best native experience. And what is a better way than offering Apps for Android (tablet/smartphone) and iOS (iPad and iPhone).
iOS: Requires iOS 4.3 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
Android: Requires Android version 2.2 or higher. Optimized for Android 4.0 and up.