Pebble
The Ambient Console
Track your ambience, one glance at a time.
Pebble lives on your desk, bedside table or shelf and follows what's happening in the room around it. Air, light, weather and presence, together on one 8 inch screen.
A new category
Meet the Ambient Console.
What you know about your room is usually scattered. The weather lives in one app, the air purifier in another, and the AC has its own remote. Pebble brings it together on a dedicated display that sits in the room it describes.
Because it's always on the table, you don't have to go looking. A glance is enough to know whether to open a window, grab an umbrella or take a break.
A computer is where you get work done.
A phone keeps you in touch with people.
A smart speaker answers when you ask it something.
An Ambient Console keeps you in touch with the room itself, and lets you act on what it notices.
It belongs where you spend your day.
Your room has more to tell you.
Know your ambience
Read the room in a second.
Pebble's sensor system is being developed to follow the conditions that shape how a room feels. Readings are grouped into a few plain categories, so the important part comes first and the detail is there when you want it.
Comfort
How warm and how dry it is, and which way the weather is turning.
Freshness
Whether the room needs air, and what is lingering in it.
Particles
Dust, smoke and fine particles, sorted by size.
Gases
Traces from traffic, cooking and combustion.
Radon
A natural gas from the ground, best understood over weeks.
Light
How bright the room is, and how much UV is coming through.
Numbers first. Then meaning.
Readings mean more together than apart. Rising CO₂ in a warm, humid room points to one thing: it's time for fresh air. Pebble is designed to combine readings like these into a single line, so the screen says something worth knowing before you look closer.
CO₂
1,180ppm
Rising
Temperature
27.6°C
Warm
Humidity
64%
Humid
Room summary
Stuffy in here. Open a window for ten minutes.
Inside vs Outside
Both sides of the window.
Pebble puts the room beside the weather outside, so the difference is obvious: temperature, humidity and air, plus what the sky is doing now and what it's expected to do next.
Small decisions get easier. Open the window or keep it shut. Take a jacket or leave it.
Inside
Outside
23.4°
7.6° cooler inside31.0°
Humidity
46%
Humidity
72%
Air
Good
PM2.5 9
Air
Moderate
PM2.5 38
Outside, the next few hours
Cooler tomorrow, with rain this evening
Now
31°
3 pm
32°
6 pm
28°
70%
9 pm
26°
40%
Tomorrow
29° / 23°
Ambient Weather Calendar
Your week, with the weather filled in.
The Ambient Weather Calendar puts the forecast where your plans are. Every day shows the expected high and low, the chance of rain, the conditions and UV, with sunrise and sunset when you need them. You'll know on Sunday that Wednesday's commute needs an umbrella, and which evening suits a long walk.
Commute. See the weather for the times you leave and come home.
Umbrella days. Know which days need one before they arrive.
Outdoor plans. Find the clear morning or the cooler evening.
Heat and cold ahead. Spot warm spells and cold snaps early.
Room vs outside. Compare the days ahead with how your room feels now.
October
Ambient Weather Calendar
Wednesday 15
28° / 23°
Rain
- Rain
- 80%
- Humidity
- 78%
- UV
- 3 Moderate
- Sunrise
- 6:23 am
- Sunset
- 5:56 pm
- Vs room
- +4°
17:30 Commute home
Rain likely, 25°
Environmental history
What your room did while you were busy.
A single reading tells you about right now. History shows you the pattern. Look back over 24 hours, 7 days, 30 days or a custom range, compare two readings on one chart, and see each day's high, low and average. Line up CO₂ with the hours you spent at your desk, or humidity with a week of rain.
Home office
Environmental history
Pick up to two readings to compare.
CO₂ppm
- High
- 1,002
- Low
- 461
- Average
- 676
Temperature°C
- High
- 27.2
- Low
- 21.7
- Average
- 24.4
Daily high, low and average · CO₂
Radar awareness
Presence, without a camera.
Pebble uses a 60 GHz radar sensor to notice when someone is nearby, whether they're moving or sitting still, and roughly where they are. It works with reflected radio signals instead of light, so it can stay aware of the room without a lens.
Radar of this kind can pick up very small movements, such as typing or turning a page, which helps Pebble tell a quiet room from an empty one. It knows someone is there. It doesn't know who.
What Pebble knows right now
- Presence
- Detected
- Movement
- Small movements
- Direction
- Still
- Zone
- At desk
- Display
- On
A point, a direction and a distance. Never a picture.
Presence
Notices someone in the room, even while they sit still.
Movement
Tells small movements apart from walking around.
Direction
Senses which way you are moving, and when you approach.
Wake on approach
The screen comes on as you walk up.
Rest when empty
Once the room is empty, the display dims and sleeps to save energy.
Occupancy
Knows when a space is in use, for automations and history.
Sitting time
Estimates how long you have stayed at your desk.
Nothing on the front
Radar works through the enclosure, so there is no lens to look at.
Touch free gestures are being explored, and will only ship if they prove reliable.
Sitting Hours
Know how long you've been sitting.
Pebble uses presence near your desk to estimate how long you've been seated. It keeps a running total for the day, your longest unbroken stretch and the times you stepped away, with daily and weekly trends. After a long stretch, it can suggest a break.
- Today's sitting time
- Longest continuous stretch
- Active periods
- Away periods
- Daily trend
- Weekly trend
- Break reminders
- Desk presence history
A picture of your routine, not a health measurement.
Ambient insights
Useful context, not alarms.
Some changes in a room are easy to miss until you feel them: stale air after a long meeting, a dry afternoon, fine dust after cooking. Pebble is designed to notice patterns like these and mention them in plain language, with a simple suggestion when one helps.
It describes your surroundings. Pebble isn't a medical device, and it doesn't assess anyone's health.
CO₂ has been rising for the past hour.
NowOpening a window should help.
Humidity is below your preferred range.
12 min ago36% now. Your range is 40 to 60%.
You've been at your desk for a while.
25 min ago1 h 50 m since your last break.
It's much warmer inside than outside.
Yesterday29° in here, 22° outside. A good time to open up.
Fine particles are higher than usual.
YesterdayPM2.5 has stayed elevated since 8 pm.
Ultra privacy
No camera.No microphone.By design.
Pebble has no camera and no microphone. They aren't switched off or hidden behind a shutter. They were never included. Presence comes from radar, which senses movement through reflected radio waves instead of pictures or sound.
Privacy through radar
Three ways to sense a room.
Camera
Not in PebbleCreates recognizable images of people and places.
Microphone
Not in PebbleCaptures voices and the sounds of a room.
Pebble radar
What Pebble usesMeasures radio reflections to understand movement and presence.
Radar isn't free of privacy considerations. It still describes activity in your home, so Pebble is designed to process it locally wherever practical and keep it with you. What it avoids is audio and video capture, and that's the trade we think a device on your desk should make.
Local by design
Your ambience is your business.
Pebble keeps your environmental history on the device, and the companion app can hold the readings you choose to view on your phone. The system is designed so your room's history doesn't need to be stored on our servers, and your room data is never used to build an advertising profile.
Some features do need the internet: weather forecasts, software updates, remote access and smart home services you connect. Those requests carry what the service needs, such as a location for your forecast, not your room's history.
- No advertising profile built from your room
- No camera recordings, because there is no camera
- No microphone recordings, because there is no microphone
- Environmental history stored on Pebble
- Local processing wherever practical
On Pebble
Stored and processed locally
Your phone
The Pebble app
Online services
Requests, not history
- Weather forecasts
- Software updates
- Remote access, when you turn it on
- Smart home services you connect
- Ad blocking list updates
Data export
Take your data with you.
If you want the raw numbers, they're yours. Export readings as CSV, choose a date range, pick one parameter or several, and open the file in any spreadsheet. Pebble is designed to log continuously, so the history is there when you want it.
pebble-home-office.csv
CSV| time | temp_c | humidity_pct | co2_ppm | pm25_ugm3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 Oct 09:00 | 23.8 | 47 | 612 | 7 |
| 14 Oct 09:15 | 23.9 | 47 | 655 | 7 |
| 14 Oct 09:30 | 24.0 | 46 | 701 | 8 |
| 14 Oct 09:45 | 24.1 | 46 | 748 | 8 |
| 14 Oct 10:00 | 24.1 | 46 | 790 | 8 |
| 14 Oct 10:15 | 24.2 | 45 | 826 | 9 |
Your ambient display
A screen worth leaving on.
Pebble has plenty to show when the readings are fine and nothing needs you. Choose a display mode for the moment, or let Pebble change through the day: the dashboard while you work, a photo in the evening, a dim clock at night.
Daily Summary
The whole day on one screen.
Time and date, the weather, your next event, the room next to the outdoors, sitting time so far and what's switched on at home. The Daily Summary is designed to be the screen you come back to all day.
Ambient Scenes
Change the mood of the room.
When there's nothing to check, Pebble can show a scene instead, with matching sound through supported audio output or none at all. Rain for a long afternoon of work. A fire on a cold evening. Stars before bed.
Photo Frame
Your photos, between the readings.
When the room doesn't need your attention, Pebble can become a photo frame. Choose pictures of family, friends, pets, trips or artwork in the app. Keep one favorite as a wallpaper or let a set rotate through the day. The time, temperature and weather can stay small in a corner, or step aside completely.
Everyday tools
The small things, close at hand.
A timer and a stopwatch sound too simple to mention, until you need one and your phone is across the room. On Pebble they're a tap away and big enough to read from wherever you are. Everything works straight from the touchscreen.
Timer
Ready
25:00
Focus
For focus sessions, cooking, workouts, reading, study, meetings, breaks or any countdown you set. Try it.
Stopwatch
No laps
00:00.00
- Laps appear here
For the moments you'd rather time than guess.
Smart Home Console
See it. Then change it.
Pebble is designed to control compatible smart home devices from the same screen that shows your readings. If the room is warming up, turn on the fan or the AC. Air getting worse? Start the purifier. On a dry day, the humidifier is one tap away.
Support is planned for devices over Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, Matter where supported, and compatible devices on your local network. Integrations with ecosystems such as Alexa and Google Home are being explored where technically possible. Compatibility will vary by device.
Environment based automation
Let the room respond.
Pebble is being developed to connect what it senses with what your devices do. You set simple rules and decide which ones act on their own and which ask first. It's the link between knowing what's happening in the room and doing something about it.
Rules work with compatible devices and can be switched off at any time.
WhenCO₂ keeps rising
ThenRemind you to open a window
ReminderWhenThe room passes a temperature you choose
ThenOffer to turn on a compatible fan or AC
Asks firstWhenParticle levels climb
ThenStart or suggest a compatible air purifier
Your choiceWhenThe room has been empty for a while
ThenSwitch off the devices you picked
AutomaticWhenSomeone walks up to Pebble
ThenWake the display
AutomaticWhenNobody is around
ThenDim the display, then let it sleep
AutomaticPebble Ad Blocker
One filter for the whole network.
Network wide DNS based ad and tracker blocking.
Before a phone, laptop or TV loads anything, it looks up where to find it. That lookup is called DNS. When your network is set to use Pebble for DNS, Pebble can decline lookups for known advertising and tracking domains. Supported devices on the network benefit together, with no extension to install on each one.
- Blocks many advertising domains
- Reduces many trackers
- One central setup
- Covers multiple devices
- No browser extension on each device
- Dashboard of blocked requests
- Allowlists and blocklists
- Privacy focused DNS controls
It blocks many ads and trackers, not all of them. Ads served from the same place as the content, which is common in video and streaming apps, usually get through, and it won't get around paywalls or subscriptions.
Room by room
Where Pebble lives.
Work desk
Beside the monitor, with the room, the weather and your sitting time in the corner of your eye and a timer one tap away.
- Environment
- Weather
- Timer
- Sitting hours
- Smart home
- Radar presence
- Calendar
Design
Designed to be seen.
Most electronics are made to disappear into a drawer or behind a screen. Pebble is meant to stay out, next to a laptop, a lamp, a stack of books or a glass of water by the bed. Every detail follows from that.
Soft sky blue
Very matte finish
About 8 inches
A display you can read from across a desk.
Soft sky blue
A calm color that sits well with wood, linen and stone.
Very matte
A surface that diffuses light instead of reflecting it.
Integrated bezel
The frame around the display is part of the body.
Clean front
No camera lens, and as few visible sensors as possible.
Sensing built in
Radar and light sensing sit inside the enclosure.
Discreet ventilation
Airflow for the sensors, designed to stay unobtrusive.
Tidy connections
Ethernet and charging are placed where they stay out of the way.
Why a dedicated display
Why not just an app?
A phone can show all of this, but it rarely does. Most of the time it's in a pocket, face down, charging in another room or busy with something else, and every check means unlocking it, finding an app and waiting.
Pebble stays where it is, with the information already on screen. The app still matters: it's how you set Pebble up and check in when you're out. It just doesn't have to be the only way in.
In a pocket
Face down
Charging
In another room
Showing something else
Pebble: on the table, already showing it
Companion app
Check in when you're out.
The Pebble app for Android and iOS is where you set things up and look in from elsewhere. It follows the same local first approach as Pebble and is designed to keep your history on your own devices.
- See readings remotely
- Browse history
- Configure Pebble
- Choose themes
- Manage dashboards
- Manage photos
- Set preferred ranges
- Export data
- Connect smart home devices
- Set up network protection
- Choose your alerts
Home office
Comfortable
Last 7 days
CO₂
High
1,140
Low
430
Avg
690
The full picture
Your ambience, in one place.
Environment
Comfort, freshness, particles, gases, radon and light, grouped so they make sense.
60 GHz radar
Presence and movement, sensed with radio instead of a lens.
Ambient Weather Calendar
The forecast, written into your week.
Inside vs Outside
Your room beside the weather outside.
Sitting Hours
A running count of your desk time.
Local data
History kept on Pebble and your phone.
No camera
Nothing that can capture an image.
No microphone
Nothing that can capture sound.
Smart home
See a reading, then act on it, from the same screen.
Photo Frame
Your photos when the room is calm.
Ambient Scenes
A change of scene for your desk.
Ad Blocker
DNS filtering for every supported device on your network.
2,316 requests blocked today
Under the surface
How Pebble senses presence without a camera.
Pebble is being designed around Infineon's 60 GHz FMCW radar: either the BGT60TR13C or the newer BGT60CUTR13AIP, depending on the final hardware configuration. FMCW stands for frequency modulated continuous wave. In plain terms, it works like this.
- 1
It sends a chirp. The radar transmits a short signal whose frequency rises steadily. This is called a chirp.
- 2
The room answers. The chirp reflects off people and objects and comes back a few billionths of a second later.
- 3
Distance and speed. Comparing what went out with what came back shows how far away a reflection is. Changes from one chirp to the next show motion and speed.
- 4
Direction. With one transmitter and three receivers, tiny differences between the receivers indicate the angle a reflection came from.
- 5
Plain answers. Pebble turns this into simple states: someone present, moving, approaching, or an empty room.
Infineon 60 GHz radar sensor
BGT60TR13C
- 60 GHz FMCW radar
- Operates from 58 GHz to 63.5 GHz
- 1 transmit and 3 receive antennas
- Antennas integrated in the package
- Range, angle, motion and speed sensing
- High sensitivity for micro and macro movement
- Small physical package
Infineon lists presence detection, people tracking and smart home among its uses. Its sensitivity to small movements helps Pebble stay aware of someone sitting still.
Infineon 60 GHz radar with integrated processing
BGT60CUTR13AIP
- 60 GHz FMCW radar
- 1 transmit and 3 receive antennas
- Integrated hardware accelerator
- On chip radar preprocessing
- Embedded presence and motion detection
- Autonomous presence detection
- Low power sensing with deep sleep
- Wider field of view
Designed for smart home and IoT products. Processing presence on the chip itself suits a device that is meant to stay aware all day on very little power.
Radar details describe the Infineon components. Pebble's sensing performance will depend on its final hardware, enclosure and software.
Specifications
Current hardware direction.
Pebble is in development. This is what the current design is built around.
Specifications, features and interface designs shown on this page may change before release.
- Display
- 8 inch HD touchscreen
- Presence sensing
- 60 GHz radar (Infineon BGT60TR13C or BGT60CUTR13AIP)
- Environmental sensing
- Integrated environmental sensor system
- Computing platform
- Radxa Cubie A7A
- Storage
- 128 GB UFS
- Connectivity
- Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Ethernet
- Power
- Integrated battery backup
- Software
- Custom Android based software
- Companion app
- Android and iOS
- Camera
- None
- Microphone
- None
- Enclosure
- Soft sky blue, very matte finish, integrated display bezel
About Pebble
Radar and privacy
Your data
Connectivity
Ad blocking
Everyday use
Placement and safety
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