New Google Smart Home Gadget with Soli and Zigbee support hits FCC

Google’s new smart home products have just entered the market and have been discovered in FCC. The device is confidentially named “A4R-G4CVZ” which is an interactive device with an attached privacy request that deletes useful information such as images or product names. Although we are not sure what it will be but we do know a few things about it, such as the fact that it will contain Google’s new Soli-radar technology and that it will be Zigbee compatible.

None of the documents specifically mentions the Zigbee support we can see, but in one of the documents, it is mentioned directly in the name of the test report file itself. In addition, the device supports the ~60 GHz frequencies used by Google’s Soli technology. The document describing the FCC label also states that it has a display to show this label, so it is unlikely to be a Smart AI speaker. Also, it doesn’t seem to have a battery either, and it uses a 14V power supply, so it’s probably not portable.

It is of course a kind of smart household appliance, given the inclusion of Zigbee, but there are some peculiar details. For example, the 14-volt wired power supply is more powerful than most of Google’s current gadgets, although it’s something like Google Home.

Any further speculation would be totally unfounded, but we think it could be some kind of successor to Nest Secure or a hub-type device for use with external sensors. The original Nest Secure had a motion sensor for which Google could easily reuse Soli, and was a simple device sensor center that would have been helped by Zigbee’s support. Although there is no clear or irrefutable evidence for such speculation, and it could be anything or almost anything. Perhaps the most curious detail is the fact that nothing seems to have leaked out yet.