SIMLAB lets you create a digital twin of your entire home and control all your Homey-connected devices in 3D. Explore a realistic digital version of your living space, where you can turn lights on and off, adjust the temperature, trigger scenes, or even check on your robot vacuum.
In this virtual home, small icons appear exactly where your lamps, thermostats, and blinds are in real life. Just tap a device to control it, and an intuitive menu appears with all your options, giving you full access to your smart home in 3D.
Want to set the mood for movie night? Drag your “Movie Night” scene icon onto the living-room sofa in the 3D view, and the lights dim, the shades lower, and your soundbar switches to Theater mode. It’s one simple interface that keeps everything in sync, no app-hopping needed.
Bringing Your Property to Life in 3D
SIMLAB specializes in turning real spaces into immersive digital twins. By combining IoT and building intelligence data, they create interactive 3D environments for homes, offices, and facilities, transforming the way people manage, visualize, and experience their spaces.
Behind SIMLAB’s technology is a team of experts in 3D modeling, data integration, and design, led by professionals with deep experience in architecture and smart building management. Their goal is to make digital property management both accessible and engaging for everyone, from homeowners to facility managers.
SIM-ON is SIMLAB’s digital twin platform that brings smart home control into a realistic 3D view of your home. Using 360° scans, it creates a detailed digital model of your space, turning it into an intuitive interface for managing devices, tracking assets, and organizing maintenance. You can explore rooms virtually, tap on connected devices to control them, and keep everything in sync—all within your interactive 3D home.
How Homey Brings It All Together
SIM-ON provides a compelling 3D interface for property and device management. It doesn’t directly connect to every smart home device on its own, though. Instead, SIMLAB designed SIM-ON as a platform that uses integrations to communicate with a wide range of IoT devices.
As the world’s most advanced smart hub, Homey can communicate with more than 50,000 devices from countless brands. It supports every major communication protocol, including Wi-Fi, Thread, Matter, Zigbee, Z-Wave, Bluetooth, Infrared, and 433 MHz. By integrating Homey, SIM-ON gains access to this extensive network of connected devices, regardless of brand or technology.
This makes Homey an invaluable partner to SIMLAB and the SIM-ON ecosystem. To SIM-ON, a switch is simply a switch. But to Homey, it might be an Aqara H2 Light Switch or a Shelly 1PM Mini Module—both instantly recognized and passed to SIM-ON for visualization and 3D control.
Homey manages the low-level communication behind the scenes: translating commands, receiving data, and maintaining device states across protocols. SIM-ON, in turn, provides the intuitive 3D interface, allowing users to visualize and control Homey-connected devices within the digital twin of their property. Tapping a virtual light switch or dragging a scene onto a room in the 3D model sends the command to Homey, which then executes it on the real device.
When SIM-ON’s immersive 3D view meets Homey’s broad device compatibility, you get powerful, intuitive control over your smart home. Together, they make managing even the most complex setups simple, seamless, and enjoyable.
The Benefits of a Visual Smart Home
A visual smart home feels more natural to use. Instead of browsing through menus, you see a 3D model of your home where every device sits exactly where it should. It’s easy to spot what’s happening and even easier to act. Tap a light, start a scene, or make changes in real time, and watch your digital home mirror your real one.
Ultimately, a visual smart home offers something rare: true ease and enjoyment. Homey handles the complex connections behind the scenes, while SIM-ON gives you a clear, visual command center. Controlling lights, adjusting the climate, or starting a scene feels as natural as flipping a switch, only smarter, faster, and more immersive.
How to Get Started
Here’s how to connect Homey and SIM-ON to build your own 3D smart home.
1. Set Up Your Smart Home
Connect your smart devices to Homey and configure them as usual. You can start for free with Homey Cloud or get the Homey Pro or Homey Pro mini and gain support for almost every smart device out there.
2. Create a Digital Twin of Your Space
Next, you’ll need a 3D version of your home. SIM-ON works with Matterport and NavVis to create detailed digital twins. Create a free Matterport account, and you instantly get one active space and two user seats. That’s enough to scan an apartment with your phone or a 360° camera and publish a fully navigable 3D model.
3. Link Them Together with SIM-ON
Create your free SIM-ON account to get one property, two users, ten IoT devices, and 100 MB of storage. Sign in, import your 3D model, and connect your Homey account. Your devices appear on the floor plan in real time. Just assign rooms, set positions, and you’re done.
