Lea Simpson

High Maintenance Homes the ups and downs of your connected everything

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MEH meh

meh

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DEPICTIONS OF THE CONNECTED HOME

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  Dystopian

  Utopian dystopia – even when it’s good, it’s really, really bad

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I wake up at four to some old-timey dubstep spewing from my pillows. The lights are flashing. My alarm clock is blasting Skrillex or Deadmau5 or something, I don’t know. I

never listened to dubstep, and in fact the entire genre is on my banned list. You see, my house has a virus again.

Image via Wired

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Technically it’s malware. But there’s no patch yet, and pretty much everyone’s got it. Homes up and down the block are lit up, even at this early hour. Thankfully this one is fairly benign. It sets off the alarm with music I blacklisted decades ago on Pandora. It

takes a picture of me as I get out of the shower every morning and uploads it to Facebook. No big deal. @mat for Wired UK

Image via Wired

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Fun experiment, but do we really want to live like this?

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"We’re a little bit of a hammer looking for a nail right now," Chris Quatrochi, Whirlpool's global director of user experience and connectivity

ORAL B WHAT ABOUT THE BIG NAMES?

Bluetoothbrush! The Oral-B SmartSeries electric toothbrush, talks to your phone via Bluetooth 4.0 and shows a countdown on your phone.

Dear Connected Home, why so sh*t all the time?

Image via @0100

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A SMART HOUSE DIVIDED SETTING THE SCENE

The House of Babel

A SMART HOUSE DIVIDED CANNOT STAND

•  Some speak to your router over Wi-Fi •  Others speak to your tablet over Bluetooth •  Kwikset, Yale and Schlage make smart deadbolts that relay information

using Z-Wave •  Philips Hue bulbs are fluent in ZigBee •  There's Insteon's network •  Clear Connect protocol spoken by Lutron products •  And countless other proprietary languages to keep track of

SmartThings’s mission is to sit at the center of this open physical graph ecosystem. Supports: Ethernet, Zigbee, Z-wave, Bluetooth. It doesn’t have to be built into home

devices, but it works with devices that are already connected. Open to outside developers.

MachineShop is about the ‘Internet of Services’, i.e. providing APIs and service exchanges to help companies deliver services in the connected world. Raised $3m in

funding on March of 2014.

Picture about people worrying

Privacy, what about

privacy?

Will the IoT could widen the digital divide?

Do we even know how to

fix these things when they break?

Nah, this stuff’s for expensive

infrastructure for the military,

hospitals and prisons

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Stuck in a design rut?

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3. PLATFORM THINKING

1. MAKER CULTURE

2. BORINGNESS

1. MAKER CULTURE

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Kamkwamba, who grew up in a tiny rural farming village off the grid in Malawi, was 14 years old in 2001 when he spotted a photo of a windmill in a U.S. textbook one day and

decided to make one.

Harness the power of mobile phones to encourage best practice for dairy farmers and increase milk production.

“…because of advances in technology, part of the opportunity is now to make the tools that are needed for production, and prototypes are now democratized” President Obama

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2. BORINGNESS

EDGEHome senses the electrical signature from an outlet.

A dashboard provides remote control

and a System Map to control individual socket or switches.

It can detect when you charge a

laptop -- and turn off the power when it’s the battery is at 100%.

CubeSensor can detect problems in the home, including temperature fluctuations, high humidity, noise pollution, high or low lighting levels and even barometric pressure. There's also a detector for volatile organic compounds that come from rotting paint or other airborne toxins. You can shake it to see a glowing color: say, blue for healthy detection.

Wally (as in Wall-E) uses the copper wiring in your home to create a wireless network to detect leaks and mold. The kit comes with six small sensors that you can place next to the toilet, the dishwasher etc that use a wireless signal that connects to the WallyHome hub. So the copper wires in your home act as an antenna, and you get an alert if a sensor detects a leak.

3. PLATFORM THINKING

PLATFORM WHATNOW?

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  Instead of creating a product that will work in a market context… provide the market context

  Create the conditions for everyone involved to benefit from the value exchange

  Like a dating service for consumers and producers

  Not creating a market, you’re enabling roles

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PLATFORM THINKING AT HOME

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  The goods manufacturing models as we know it couldn’t be more different to platform models

  The success of their linear business model relies almost wholly on the efficiency of production

  Imagine what would happen if they brought the makers and the buyers together?

CONNECTED HOME

INTERCONNECTED HOME

Hey Whirlpool, maybe the interconnected home won’t even have a washer/dryer at all. Maybe it’ll be tapped

into an automated laundry service that will collect, wash and dry your dirty stuff as the pile reaches a

certain weight. Without a peep (or tweet).

Hey Whirlpool, maybe the interconnected home won’t even have a washer/dryer at all. Maybe it’ll be tapped

into an automated laundry service that will collect, wash and dry your dirty stuff as the pile reaches a

certain weight. Without a peep (or tweet).

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The Next Industrial Revolution

Want your microwave to tell Netflix when your dinner is heated up so it can cue the rest of the film you started watching? Done.

Want to tell your microwave to start on your way home using your car’s dashboard? Done.

How about programming your microwave to automatically start ten minutes into your drive home and cue Game Of Thrones…

On Wednesday nights, only when you’ve been to the gym? Done.

A totally different relationship with stuff. The decline of ownership?

User generated products

What’s less shit than the connected washing machine?

Solve real problems. Explore preventative healthcare.

Be boring: you are now in the service industry

Make like the makers: embrace the open protocols

Think platform thinking: aka nobody wants your tweeting toaster

Thank you

@leasimpson