Electric Imp Announces $15 Million in Series B Funding

Aug/13/14

Electric Imp today announced it has completed $15 million in Series B funding from new investors Foxconn Technology Group, PTI Ventures and Rampart Capital, and returning investors Redpoint Ventures and Hugo Fiennes, CEO and Co-founder of Electric Imp. The new funding adds to the $8 million Series A investment the company received in 2012, and […]

Rachio Uses Electric Imp Connectivity to Smarten Sprinklers

Aug/07/14

In this Electric Imp guest blog post, Rachio Co-founder Franz Garsombke provides insight into the challenges of integrating connectivity into the Iro smart sprinkler controller and how the issues were solved through the Electric Imp platform. With the Western US facing drought conditions this summer, the Iro from Rachio is an especially timely solution that […]

shelºF: the Smartest Smart Comfort Control System

Jul/31/14

Juan Bosco Albanell Flores is a Maker in Residence at Electric Imp and a senior at Princeton University, where he is majoring in Electrical Engineering. Home climate control is quickly becoming Internet connected, with Nest’s thermostat at the forefront. While these newly emerging devices are a significant improvement over their predecessors in terms of customizability […]

Introducing the Pebble WiFi Controller for Flexible Residential HVAC Management

Jul/28/14

Electric Imp guest blogger Robin McKenzie is head of national marketing and sales at New Zealand-based Pebble Air, creator of the imp-enabled Pebble WiFi controller for residential HVAC. It was 2005 and I had just completed a residential air conditioner installation at a property in my home country of New Zealand. The savvy homeowner, an […]

Electric Imp Celebrates 3 Years of Making Connections

Jul/17/14

Electric Imp recently surpassed a special milestone – our third anniversary. The collage above offers a visual snapshot of the past year and underscores the continued strong growth of our connectivity platform and products, customer base and community. Here’s a recap of various highlights: Platform and ProductsOver the past 12 months we have continued to […]

Electric Imp IDE Release Features New Model Button

Jun/26/14

Today we are updating the Electric Imp IDE to version 1.8.0, and are pleased to announce it incorporates one of the features you’ve been requesting for some time: the ability to create a new model without immediately assigning a device to it. When you next load up the IDE – you may be required to […]