Belkin ships WeMo Light Switch



Belkin's WeMo is an emerging networked home automation system that allows you to control devices via power switches. To date, they've shipped a couple products that plug into walls. The new light switch expands that to fixed switches

The WeMo Light Switch is easily connected into a home's existing electrical wiring, replacing a current light switch. Once in place and connected to the home's Wi-Fi network, users can access the free WeMo app to turn lights on or off, put them on a schedule, and even time them according to local sunrise and sunset from anywhere using an iOS or Android device. The Light Switch also features integration with IFTTT, an online service that creates triggers using different Internet-based services such as email, weather and social media.

The IFTTT part of this may be the most compelling. It's one thing to control lighting via an app, but connecting it to web-based events is pretty cool.

The WeMo Light Switch is available now for $49.99.