Project description
Keyless hallway access to improve deliveries
The e-commerce market is experiencing exponential growth, with retailers competing on servicing customers. Currently, one of the main challenges is product delivery. Unfortunately, even access control, the aspect expected to be most convenient, is riddled with problems. The EU-funded Nello One project aims to step in and resolve this issue with a smart plug-and-play lock and app. At a competitive price and with easy installation, the smart lock informs users of delivery arrivals through a Wi-Fi-enabled system that is on the cloud. With an app installed on their smartphone, users are then able to provide keyless hallway access from anywhere.
Objective
A rising number of customers are becoming increasingly accustomed to convenience. People are buying more and more online – the e commerce market reached €1.9 trillion worldwide in 2018, a 26% jump from 2016. As such, retailers now need to compete on convenience as well as price. Nevertheless, delivery is the biggest challenge to e-commerce. Though access control is seen to be more convenient for delivery options, it is fraught with difficulties.
Nello One is the only plug and play smart lock solution that gives hallway access at a highly affordable price. It is a smart upgrade for intercoms that works with a Wi-Fi-enabled chip to transmit the bell and door buzzer signals of intercoms via Wi-Fi to the cloud. The Nello One app is connected with our cloud so the app informs users when someone has buzzed and after they give permission, Nello One instantly opens the hallway door – no matter where they are. Nello One is uniquely placed within the housing access market -there are 220M households in Europe giving us huge potential market.
Our management team is made of the 5 co-founders and a new employee. This product idea originally started in November 2014 followed by a successful Kickstarter campaign in 2015 and in 2017 we registered an annual turnover of €192,540 with a balance sheet showing €1.68M. Prior to this, we raised capital from a range of different investors. We are now seeking for a further investment of €1.5M to further develop the technology, run a large pilot test and redefine value chain in order to optimise the production and penetrate a larger market.
The proposed work in Phase 1 of the SME Instrument fits into our overall plan to reach the market by contributing the financial resources needed to plan a fast sound wider deployment of Nello One and its market uptake.
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- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringinformation engineeringtelecommunicationsmobile phones
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Funding Scheme
SME-1 - SME instrument phase 1Coordinator
80331 MUNCHEN
Germany
The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.