Seeed Studio is an open-hardware electronics manufacturer and distributor based in China, founded in 2008. The company designs and produces development boards, sensors, modules, and accessories aimed at makers, engineers, and the IoT market. Their products are widely used for prototyping and production of custom embedded and connected devices.
Their XIAO series is a line of thumb-sized development boards featuring various microcontrollers — including the Espressif ESP32 family — in a compact, breadboard-friendly, surface-mount-friendly form factor with all components on one side for ease of production.
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The home automation devices use Seeed Studio XIAO ESP32 development boards as their hardware platform. These boards carry the Espressif ESP32 microcontroller and are programmed with ESPHome firmware.