An interactive doorbell, designed by a Sheffield Hallam University business student, has caught the attention of some of Europe’s leading innovators.
Daniel McGrane, a third-year Business and Enterprise Management student at the University won a paid internship with Sharp Europe after designing SmartBell – a mobile phone app that allows householders to view and communicate with a visitor at their door, whether they are at home, at work or on holiday.
SmartBell is designed to increase home security and allows homeowners to speak to visitors when they aren’t present, for example, to give delivery instructions to couriers. SmartBell would notify a person’s mobile phone when there is someone at the door; allowing them to see who is there, have a video call or play a pre-recorded message.
Daniel’s design has earned him a summer placement amongst some of Europe’s leading innovators at Sharp Laboratories of Europe, based in Oxford. He won the placement after entering the company’s annual internship competition which asked students to tweet product ideas for the home of the future and was judged by a team of scientists from the laboratories and two independent design experts.
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