Connected Devices Weekly Update/2016-09-08

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Program		Status	Notes
Project Vaani	Validation (Lindsay/Sandip)	On Target	Bulleted list item Bulleted list item
Project Cue	Validation Stage (Julie/Preeti)	Challenged	An always-on voice-enabled smart screen device to keep track of the activities, events, and to-do lists of family members. MVP1 Hypothesis that Remains to be Tested Offering a solution that provides an alternative way to create and manage reminders, lists & schedules using a smart display, families would be able to accomplish their tasks 20% more times than before. (Pending smart display device to test) Study 2 for MVP1 Team is still working to complete the features of MVP1. Progress made on wake word. Background noise seems to be appropriately ignored. Will test for this in the study. Still finishing up front and back ends. Weren't able to start internal testing a week ago as planned. Will determine go/no go criteria for approving start of Cue tablet study. Prepared and provided architecture document for security review, but haven't received feedback yet.
Project Smart Display	Josh	On Target	Bulleted list item Bulleted list item
Project Haiku	Maria/Liz	On Target	The main question to be answered: will girls use a wearable in addition to the phone? Does it fit into their lives? Planning to test Android smart watch next week with girls to answer this question. Talking to Joe about connections between Haiku and Artefact work.
Project Sensor Web	Cindy/Wesley	On Target	Bulleted list item Bulleted list item
Project Smart Kitchen	Tamara/Nicole	On Target	Bulleted list item Bulleted list item
Project Magnet	Maria/Francisco	On Target	Hypothesis 1: If we broadcast schedule content, then spur-of-the-moment attendees can quickly and confidently choose how to spend their time Experiment#1 in View Source: Use beacons at an event to broadcast room status. Using the aforementioned survey, use targeted interviews for floaters post View Source to see if Magnet helped them make decisions in the moment and if it was easier and faster than their usual methods. Hypothesis 2: If attendees broadcast their social profiles, then social interaction will increase Experiment 2 in View Source - Beacon give-away: We'll provide beacons to the first people that go to our booth showing that they have installed the app, help them to configure it and follow up with the them if that increased the number of interactions that they had during the conference and other possible uses. Working in the View Source Handbook that include all the logistics, surveys and steps to validate the hypothesis and get the most incomes as we can. Shortening/configuring/testing the URLs to be broadcasted via beacons and also via our Magnet Desktop client Product definition Today we have started to work on picking up a specific use case in order to build a concrete product/service.
Research Team	Lindsay	On Target	Bulleted list item Bulleted list item
Participation Update	Michael/Brian	On Target	Bulleted list item Bulleted list item
Market Developments Update	Irina		READ-ONLY today Apple Home app on iOS 10 details: Home app - a central point of organization for the connected home setup, with support for new categories of devices, including cameras. Management of devices through the Control Center Apple said nearly 100 home automation products are adopting HomeKit this year, bringing support for thermostats, lights, window shades, door locks, video cameras and more. HomeKit devices and the iOS Home are integrated with Siri The first data-collecting sensors in Chicago's smart city initiative went live. The city installed 2 nodes last week as part of the Array of Things project, whose goal is that by the end of 2018 there will be 500 nodes around Chicago. Data from the nodes will be publicly available around the middle of October for free on the city of Chicago's Data Portal and the Plenar.io portal Amazon news from IFA Berlin, Europe's largest tech show: LG's upcoming smart home hub will integrate with Amazon's Alexa digital assistant, in a limited fashion at first. Amazon is also certifying smartwatches to work with Alexa Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microchip Technology partnered to develop a provisioning platform and supported secure chip. The hardware, designed by Microchip, will help the platform provide end-to-end IoT security procedures and simplify IoT solutions that operate on AWS. The software engineers that have been working on the Nest platform are being moved to Google in order to create a unified Smart Home platform. The combined team will continue to work on Google Home, a smart speaker rival to Amazon's Echo.
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