mart, will integrate household appliances digitally and enable users to easily control all their gadgets on a phone or computer and from anywhere they are in the world.

Speaking on the App yesterday in Lagos, the Chief Executive Officer of VIN Global Technologies Limited, Onyeka Onwuka, stated that the new app would help people save electricity consumption.

Onwuka said: “With OVO Smart, you can control your home and your appliances from anywhere. You can be in your bedroom and turn off your electrical appliances from anywhere in the world.

“The features of OVO Smart is that you have your App that enables you turn on it turn off, for instance, your water heater. It helps you save energy.

“Also, in your kitchen, we have our smoke detectors that help you turn on and off your gas.

“Once the smoke detector detects a smoke, it sends a signal to your phone; you can then open the App and shutdown your gas from anywhere you are.

“With our App, you can monitor the electrical appliances that are on, and this helps save energy consumption. Once you see appliances that ought not to be on, with the App, you can turn them off at any given time from anywhere in the world.”

He added: “We designed the App but because we don’t have the capacity to produce the equipment, we sent it out to our foreign expatriates who helped in manufacturing the product.

“I went into the line of business because I have seen people complaining about their electricity bills going up.

“I thought of ways to cut down electricity bills and that was what motivated me to come up with the OVO Smart app to save lives and help the people save their electricity consumption.”

On plans for new customers to get the device, the MD said: “All you need to do is to buy our fittings, download our apps for free, and then once you buy our fittings, you can just remove the gang and put our smart products. You don’t have to break walls anymore and we made the products very cheap and affordable for everyone. Students can also afford it. Our plan is to make everybody to use our products at a very affordable price. You can buy the one gang switch for about N50, 000 or N60, 000. The products are affordable as you don’t have to spend millions.

“It saves you a lot. So, you just have to have our fittings and download our App. You can buy the one gang and have our product on it. With $80-$100, you can get the device.

“With our product, you can control your appliances with your voice; our product works with any voice command on your mobile phone like Siri, Alexa, Google voice and more. If you don’t want to use the voice command, you can use our OVO Smart device to turn on and turn off your appliances from anywhere in the world.

Onwuka said every products, ranging from the security gates, security doors, OVO cameras, OVO light switches, OVO sockets, OVO door sensors , OVO tablets and more are all integrated into the OVO Smart App.

He added that the App does not consume much data because it is in kilobytes.