Deep Dive Teardown of the ecobee Smart Thermostat ECB601 Home Thermostat
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The ecobee Smart Thermostat ECB601 is designed to control home heating and cooling systems directly from the phone app or voice commands with Siri or Alexa to create heating and cooling schedules as well as view energy usage reports. This smart thermostat is equipped with sensors for temperature, humidity, barometric pressure, air pollution, and PIR for close movement detection. It is dedicated to HVAC systems standards, so requires a C-wire for power or a power adapter kit assembled.
The color 540x540 pixel LED screen can display the current temperature, humidity, barometric pressure, air pollution, and the actual working mode. The ecobee Smart Thermostat ECB601 smartphone has a total cost of $85.08 and is $38.83 more expensive than the average Thermostat costs. The design wins for the ecobee Smart Thermostat are shared among different manufacturers. MediaTek supplied the applications processor. WiFi/Bluetooth IC comes from Media Tek, Sub 1GHz and 2.4 GHz Communication IC provided by Silicon Labs Sensirion provided SHT4 humidity and temperature sensors. From Texas Instruments, Audio Amplifier, and Sub 1GHz Wireless MCU. Supporting memory consists of 512MB LPDDR3 SDRAM by Nanya and 4GB NAND Flash by Samsung.
