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Meet our Business Development Director UK, Rachel Bennett, to discuss how smart devices and peripherals can support the care industry and explore your possibilities.

When integrated with IoT (Internet of Things) devices, AI is emerging as a game-changer for home care, offering a range of benefits that enhance the quality of care for those living at home.

To ensure the success of your IoT solution, it must function reliably. The Fleet Management Services from Onics provide you with an easy way to monitor, maintain, and debug your IoT fleet based on the Squid.link gateways.

Choosing reliable and durable devices in your IoT-based solution is crucial for maintaining high quality and longevity of your solution. But it is not only the reliability of the device’s performance that is important for the quality of your solution – so is the durability of the hardware you are using.

As a member of the TSA, the leading industry body for technology-enabled care in the UK, Onics is at the forefront of the digital transformation of the UK care industry. We are glad to reaffirm this commitment by renewing our membership and continuing to work with UK-based care companies to improve care for both residents and care professionals.

Are you based in the Netherlands and looking for a technology provider for your care solution? Then come by our stand (08.E071) at Zorg & ict in Utrecht, Netherlands, on the 8th-10th of April to discuss how we can help you get a reliable and high-quality care solution.

Today, Onics is launching a new and improved version of our entry sensors, the Entry Sensor 2 Pro. The Entry Sensor 2 Pro is a secure and reliable sensor based on many years of development experience, making it ideal for your IoT solution.

For the third year in a row, we are exhibiting at the industry-leading TSA conference ITEC (International Technology Enabled Care conference) in Birmingham 17-18 March. Meet us at stand 16 to discover the open and interoperable Squid.link platform – the ideal technology platform for wireless and future-proof TEC solutions.

Smart technology in insurance solutions is gaining traction – and for good reason. Meet us at Insurtech Insights Europe 2025 in London to learn how you can leverage smart technology in a proactive home insurance solution.

In the fast-moving IoT industry, it is crucial to quickly bring a new solution to the market to not be outpaced by competitors. By partnering with a white label technology provider, you can cut down the time to market of your solution remarkably and launch it within a third of the time.

After acquiring the Norwegian IoT solutions provider Datek Smart Home last October, we are excited to announce that Develco Products will soon unite with Datek Smart Home under the common name Onics.

With the constantly evolving IoT landscape influenced by new technologies and societal changes, it is crucial for providers of IoT solutions to keep up to date. We have selected 3 key trends that will impact IoT solutions in 2025.

We are looking forward to the event as part of our membership with the Smart Home Initiative Deutschland and exploring the possibilities our white label IoT platform offers for the energy as well as care and security industries.

Rachel has extensive experience in international sales and the care industry. Find out more about her experience and discover 5 fun facts about Rachel.

We are proud to be working with some very innovative and dynamic companies who value our partnership as much as we do. Learn what some of our customers think about working with Onics.

In many IoT solutions, it is crucial that they are running continuously and reliably to make sure the building and its residents are protected. By choosing products with easily replaceable batteries, you can minimize downtime in your solution.

What is the state of the care market in Europe? Hear our CEO Karsten Ries answer this question.

Are you looking for a highly stable and compact motion sensor that can detect movement, light, and temperature – and that is not triggered by the presence of pets? Then Onics now has the ideal product for your solution.

The care and housing sector in the UK is undergoing a digital transition as the analog phone networks many traditional solutions are based on are being turned off. The deadline for this switch has now been extended from the 31st of December 2025 to the 31st of January 2027 as many providers are behind schedule in digitalizing their solutions.

Develco Products is a member of multiple alliances and industry bodies enhancing industry collaboration, and we are now also a member of WDTM, the Dutch industry body for technology enabled care and healthcare innovation.

We are very pleased to announce that Develco Products has won ‘Best IoT Home Care Solutions Provider – Europe’ at the Social Care Awards 2024 by Global Health & Pharma – our second Social Care Award win a row.

We are now launching a new product manual service that lets you offer online, interactive manuals with your products – ensuring a much better product onboarding experience for your customers and easier manual maintenance for you.

This year’s ITEC conference in Birmingham earlier this week brought together care companies, technology providers, and care personnel to showcase and explore the possibilities technology offers for the care sector. Discover 3 market insights from the event that will shape the care industry in the upcoming months.

The new Audio Assistant gives more possibilities to care solution providers and enables them to verify alarms to provide the optimal response. Via a Squid.link gateway and optional SCAIP connection, the Audio Assistant can connect to any Alarm Receiving Center.

The Squid.link gateways from Onics make it easy for you to integrate 3rd party medical devices (e.g. blood pressure meters, glucose monitors, or fall detectors) in your solution. The gateways can communicate with devices via Zigbee and Bluetooth as well as custom protocols.

With the constantly evolving IoT landscape influenced by new technologies and societal changes, it is crucial for providers of IoT solutions to keep up to date. We have gathered 6 key trends that will impact IoT solutions in 2024.

Meet the new Smart Cable 2 that enables you to control and monitor larger electrical appliances. The Smart Cable 2 is connected to the cord of the electric appliance, so it can be used where a smart plug does not fit or a higher load (up to 16A is required).

At Onics, we are constantly looking for new ways to improve our offerings and products for our customers. This also means minimizing the carbon footprint our activities are leaving behind. We are therefore excited that our new product packaging has less plastic.

We are introducing Fleet Management Services – a range of software services that make it significantly easier for you to monitor, maintain, and debug the gateways and devices across your IoT solution. This reduces your maintenance costs and shortens time-to-market for your solution.

What do you think of when you hear “Bluetooth”? If you are like us, you are probably thinking of a wireless technology standard used to exchange data between devices. But for a Danish company like Onics, the word Bluetooth has more associations than that. A royal one and a personal one.

Did you know that you can include a programmable and waterproof wireless control button ideal for a broad range of purposes such as home care, security, or simply as a smart home control button, in your solution?

The white label Motion Sensor can detect motion, temperature, and light at once giving it various uses across industries as for example smart energy, security, or home care solutions.

Meet the Smart Plug Mini 2, a small Zigbee-based smart plug with energy-monitoring functionality. The Smart Plug Mini 2 is the ideal smart plug for any home care, security, or energy management solution.

We are excited to announce that Develco Products has won ‘Best IoT Home Care Solutions Provider – Northern Europe’ at the Social Care Awards 2023 by Global Health & Pharma.

Our partnership with Vayyar Care brings leading-edge radar-based fall detection to care solution providers, giving the opportunity to offer a complete and fully integrated care solution with instant, automatic fall detection working on top of Onics’ flexible IoT gateway.

New technologies and the increased uptake of these technologies continue to define the newest trends in the healthcare industry. However, pressured healthcare systems in many countries are also affecting priorities outlining the importance of connected health and telecare solutions. Explore 3 healthcare trends for 2023.

If help isn't provided quickly, falls can have catastrophic results with long-term complications. With the radar-based fall detector from Vayyar Care and the Squid.link gateways, you can provide instant fall detection without spending time and money on integrating a fall detector yourself.

With the Internet of Things expanding continually, a wide range of business opportunities in providing care at home opens. When building a home care solution including IoT technology, there is the option to build every part of the system from scratch. Another option is to use white label products. Explore the latter option further.

The growing number of elderly people in western societies and the growing shortage of care professionals pose a challenge to the healthcare industry. By monitoring seniors and enabling them to live at home independently and safely for a longer time, home care solutions can help relieve pressure from the care industry.

Developing a wireless smoke detector for an IoT solution means years of work before you have a market-ready product. Why not skip this and launch a mature product right away? By choosing a white label smoke detector, you can do that. Check out this option and explore the benefits of using white label products.

When including a motion sensor in an IoT system, there’s the option to develop the device from scratch. Another option is using a market-ready device to avoid a lengthy development process. If you prefer to get a market-ready motion sensor, there are several benefits of choosing a white label product.

Many current home care solutions are becoming outdated. Together with a rising demand for care, this creates a new market for intelligent home care solutions. Find out how to enter this market with a white label home care solution and start your successful telecare business today.

As populations age and technology advances, new opportunities to improve quality of care come into fruition. With these growing opportunities, demand for state-of-the-art technologies such as IoT solutions is increasing, as they allow caregivers to do their jobs more efficiently.

Deciding between using white label products and in-house product development can be difficult. Get an overview of the benefits offered by each strategy, and get one step further in your decision-making process.

Looking for a door and window alarm for your wireless system? Have you considered a white label product? A white label door and window alarm offers you the possibility to save time and get a fast return on investment. Take a look at how it works with a white label door and window alarm and why you should include these in your wireless system.

Studies have shown that many seniors do not want cameras installed in their homes. With an intelligent home care solution based on IoT devices, you can offer reliable monitoring of elderly people without using security cameras.

With a white label IoT gateway, you can get a mature gateway for your wireless system without using in-house development resources. This way, you will save a large amount of time in getting your system on the market. Explore how white labeling works and the benefits of including a white label gateway in an IoT system.

The white label Squid.link gateways are now PTCRB certified. This certification ensures that the gateways connect reliably to cellular networks all over the world. The white label gateways make it possible to quickly launch a IoT solution connecting to cellular networks.

IoT technology offers huge potential in helping people with special care needs live independent, safe, and comfortable lives in their own homes. There are several ways to go about building an IoT-enabled home care system, depending on your existing setup and in-house development resources. When teaming up with Onics, you have 3 options.

What are the benefits of choosing a white labeling strategy? And how do you proceed with your project when having settled on using white label products? Take a look at this step-by-step guide.

Onics is pleased to announce the launch of our new office in the USA . The new office accommodates increasing North American market demands and enhances provided services. It also brings us closer to our American customers and enables new projects within home care, smart security, and insurtech. 

Onics has integrated the Alarmbridge from iotcomms.io that enables solution providers from the care and security industry to easily connect their solution to a wide range of Alarm Receiving Centers. 

White labeling is when a company offers non-branded products to other companies who sell them to end customers as if they were their own. Explore the benefits of white labeling, examples of white label products, and how to choose a white label partner. 

The Iot is growing year after year and reaching into more and more industries. In 2022, 3 important trends in the IoT are the accelerating intelligent health and home care industry, a focus on cyber security and the continuous growth of edge computing.

The Smart Siren is now certified for use in North America. With its loud alarm sound, it can be used to scare away intruders. The voice prompt functionality can indicate alarms or confirmations of actions making it ideas for use in security or home care solutions. It also functions as a range extender.

Onics is today launching the white label Zigbee Range Extender with battery backup that enables you to increase the reach and add more devices to your home care, security, insurtech, or energy management solution.

Recognizing changes in behavior patterns of seniors is crucial as they can give indications for beginning illnesses. A home care solution can help document a senior's activity and spot irregularities early on.

Here's how you can save time on the development of the application for your IoT solution. With the Squid Smart App, a middleware application, you only need to configure the application on top of the Squid.link platform instead of programming it.

By partnering with 3rd party development partners, you are able to quickly get a customized IoT solution while focusing on your core competencies. Together with Blackdorf, Onics offers end-to-end solutions for the insurtech, home care, and security industry that fit your and your customers' needs.

When seniors are spending a lot of time at home, it is crucial that the indoor air environment is as good as possible - and does not contain harmful levels of VOC, humidity, or temperature. Include an Air Quality Sensor in your solution and monitor the air quality wirelessly.

As a health care provider, you have the possibility to quickly offer your customers the discrete, reliable, and simple aid that they need to live independently at home. Here's how you can easily provide your customers with a home care kit.

In today's fast-changing environment, a short time to market is crucial for any home care solution. With Onics' white label platform, you are offered 3 ways to quickly bring your home care solution to market.

The data generated by sensors in home care solutions call for a high level of reliability and low latency. By using edge computing in your home care solution, you can lower data latency and optimize communication processes.

Our population is aging at a rate never been seen before. In years to come, more and more of us are going to need a helping hand at home. With a Smart Button, seniors can easily control their home and improve their quality of life.

Window sensors, motion sensors, and other IoT devices can make the life of carers in care facilities easier and free up time that they can spend with patients. In this recent pilot project, unnecessary checkups on patients were reduced by 20% through the installation of window sensors.

The Zigbee Alliance proudly reports a continuously increasing interest in Zigbee-based products and platforms, noting 168 certified products for the first quarter of 2021. This serves to prove that Zigbee is, indeed, one of the leading communication protocols and a safe choice for your smart solution.

With 15 different sensitivity levels, having a Vibration Sensor within your solution is a great advantage. Regardless of whether you have a home care, security, or insurtech solution, this Zigbee-based device can easily help you stand out from the competition.

The programmable Zigbee button brings multiple opportunities to simplify the use of your solution and make it more user-friendly. With a simple click, your customers can start their morning routine, or enable multiple security automations.

Onics launches the new Smart Button – a configurable Zigbee-based device that matches the requirements of your solution. It can be programmed to perform different commands by various ways of pressing to control automations. It is suitable for use both in- and outdoors.

2020 has proven to be a groundbreaking year for IoT, with IoT connections accounting for 54% of all connections worldwide, thus surpassing non-IoT connections for the first time. The IoT uptake is largely driven by cellular IoT and LWPA networks.

Onics launches the Vibration Sensor which detects and reports vibration levels. With 15 different pre-set sensitivity levels, this small inobtrusive device can benefit solution providers in various business areas.

Family members and others who have relationships with elderly individuals often want to ensure that their loved ones are safe in their homes. Relatives frequently start worrying about elderly people living alone long before they are ready to move into a nursing home or receive assistance from the municipality through home care services or assistive devices.

As populations age and declining workforces become more apparent, the close relationship between technology and healthcare has the potential to transform how care is provided. The IoT can play a major role in this, and a mature and powerful platform like a 2nd generation Squid.link gateway is needed to facilitate better data collection. 

Our changing world presents new challenges for governments across the globe. The IoT offers numerous solutions to these challenges, and it is time for the public sector to embrace the technology and reap its benefits.

A smart siren can vastly improve your smart security solution. With a smart siren, homeowners can have peace of mind knowing their home is secure from intruders or burglars, and also stay informed about what is happening in their home through the voice prompt function.