4. Key challenges
Get the app
How do you get it? Service provider? DIY?
Device discoverability
Walking the line between creative freedom and WTF?
Adding new devices and functions
Battery life
Where do I put the connectivity?
5. 3 stages of the smart home
I control it from my couch!
My house controls it with a click from me.
My house sees a problem and corrects it.
6. The real question is:
Is this going to be a vertically integrated Applelike ecosystem or an open system where data
flows freely between devices in the cloud?
7. Technical implications
How to erase protocol drama
Finding a cloud backend
You want me to support how many APIs?
What needs to be secured?
Building programming models for IoT?
Are there technical solutions for privacy?
8. Business implications
Who owns the data?
Who owns the customer?
Do we need a middleman (ie IFTTT)
Do we charge for a service or a product?
How long do you support a device?
9. User implications
How much work do I have to put into this
product?
How do I know what products work with my
ecosystem?
How do I diagnose failures in the flow of data?
10. Reporting challenges
The technical issues are hard!
No one knows that the business model is.
The use cases are sexy, but ultimately incomplete.
Accountability, who is responsible?
Will this be the web (open and with plenty of room
for creativity) or like the mobile app ecosystem
where recipes replace apps?
11. The stories
Winners and losers as platform players
Winners and losers in the “shovel” sellers
Business transformation because of IoT
New types of tech and networking requirements
Social shifts because of smart devices
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