IIT-K boy invents app-controlled 'Smart Kettle' so you can brew your tea from anywhere and return home to a hot cup of tea

Won’t it be great if you can return home to a hot, welcoming cup of tea after a really hectic day at office? A super invention by Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur’s student Sachin Np might just help you to get the perfect cup of tea ready without having to do much.

His customizable tea maker Ocha 2.0 uses a mobile application to brew tea. One can control the temperature of the water through the app and if one puts water inside the kettle and schedules it for boiling through the app, the same will be done on time – much like setting an alarm or a timer through your phone. So whether you want it early in the morning by your bedside or after returning from work, that cup of coffee or tea is going to be with you when you'd like it.

Sachin took a year to develop the design and improve it. He said that he came up with the name Ocha because it means tea in Japanese.

"Brewing tea is a play between tea dust, infusion rate, the quantity of milk, not the least the amount of sugar as well to give indeed a cup of perfect tea that tingles your senses," he said in an interview when he won the A'design award.

The ‘smart’ kettle has two buttons, a dial, and a display to control the brewing. The Internet of Things (IoT) enabled device is connected with home WiFi, so you can also control it from anywhere via your smartphone.

It was the design of his kettle fetched him A’ Design Award and Competition, the world’s largest design competition recognising the best designs, concepts, products and services.

How does Ocha 2.0 really work:

It can be operated by the user in two different ways. Either with the help of the mobile application that comes along with the product or with the help of the user interface embedded onto the product.

The kettle comes with a central display console comprising a display button placed right at the centre of the console that helps in selecting the various options in the menu.

An interesting feature of the kettle is that it stirs due to a rotating platform that holds the glass jar in place with the help of an electromagnetic groove.