Samsung
SmartThings is the
first fully integrated smart
home system. As described in Samsung patent application US20150192939, the key
element of the Samsung SmartThings is the hub that can connect
various IoT devices according to various types of communication methods. The hub can detect and connect the identified
IoT devices. Device identification can be based on device media access control
(MAC) addresses, unique identifiers (e.g., names), unique IP addresses, unique
web addresses, and so on, as well as various generally identifying information,
such as non-unique device types, non-unique device classes, locations, etc.
IoT Killer Applications Design Rule 1:
Interoperable Networking of the IoT Devices
As described in Samsung patent application
US20150192939, the Samsung SmartThings includes the IoT sensors than can collect
characteristic information of the environment. The characteristic information includes
an internal temperature of the environment, internal humidity of the
environment, health status of a person and/or road traffic condition
information, etc. The IoT sensors include various kinds of sensors such as a
temperature sensor, a humidity sensor, or a luminance sensor, and sense the
internal temperature, internal humidity, internal luminance, or the like of the
environment. The IoT sensors also include health
monitoring biomedical sensing devices and/or personal
fitness monitoring devices that can provide a real time
monitoring of person’s health status such as concentration of glucose, heart
rate and blood pressure, and thus, enable remote
healthcare services.
IoT Killer Applications Design Rule 2: Best IoT
Sensor Selection for Collecting Characteristic Information of the Environment
Cisco
patent application US20150222490 illustrates a broker device that receives
device-identifying data to identify the IoT device exploiting semantic
reasoning. The broker device identifies an ontology associated with the
device-identifying data and interprets the received data based on the
interpretation instructions. For example, the device broker can be placed
within a network where it would receive temperature-related data from several
temperature sensors. The first temperature sensor can be associated with a bed
room within a home. The first temperature sensor provides identifying information
of the sensor, which can include additional information such as location (e.g.,
sensor in the bed room). The broker device can then connect to a server to load
the device ontology associated with the first temperature sensor. The device
ontology provides the broker device with instructions on how to interpret the
temperature measurements from the first temperature sensor. The second
temperature sensor in a living room, from a different manufacturer than the
first temperature sensor, can have a different representation of temperature
data. The first temperature sensor also can provide identifying information of
the sensor with the temperature measurement taken at a specific time of day.
Accordingly, when the broker device receives a temperature measurement from the
first temperature sensor, the broker device can tag the measurement with a
timestamp. In other words, the broker device can create various categories for
measurements taken by the same temperature sensor.
IoT Killer Applications Design Rule 3: Semantic
Reasoning of the Data from the
IoT Devices
Qualcomm patent application US20140244710 describes
the IoT devices that can cognize each other's presence, status, and environment
in order to perform context aware actions and/or commands on a collective basis.
By being aware of the context of other IoT
devices, an IoT device can perform a set of actions/commands based on a trigger
derived from the context of the other IoT devices. That is, an IoT device can
detect a change in the context of other IoT devices and, in response, perform
an action or a state change. Alternatively, an IoT device can perform an action
or change its state and, in response, command other IoT devices to perform an
action or change its state. For example, when a parent's IoT device is not in
the living room, the television (a context-aware IoT device) can restrict
remote control operation by the child, allow toggling across PG rated content
only, power off after a five minute timeout, or the like. IoT devices can
further leverage association ranks of the other IoT devices to perform the determined
actions. For example, a music system in the living room (a context-aware IoT
device) can play a first genre of music for a first person (carrying a first
IoT device). If a second person (carrying a second IoT device) walks into the
room, the music system can switch to a music genre that both the first person
and the second person like (an identified commonality) or continue playing the
first genre of music if the association rank of the first person (determined
from the first IoT device) is greater than the association rank of the second
person (determined from the second IoT device).
IoT Killer Applications Design Rule 4: Collective
Interaction of the IoT Devices
As described in Samsung patent application
US20150192939, the Samsung SmartThings hub receives user request information
from the user terminal apparatus (smartphone). The user request information is the
information used for driving various devices to set an environment of the home
to a user's desired environment. The user terminal can display various user
interfaces (UIs). The user terminal can display information received from the SmartThings
Hub and display UIs for controlling the IoT devices in a home network. PrimeSense
(acquired by Apple at $350 million in 2013) US20140225824 describes the virtual
smart home control buttons: A control unit projects images of control devices
onto a wall of the room and remotely senses contact with and manipulation of
the projected devices by a user (contact with the wall on which the images are
projected and gestures of the user's hand and fingers while in this situation).
The projected devices can range from a simple on/off switch to more complex
controls, such as dials, sliders, and keypads. The user can modify, add or
remove control devices at will by interaction with the control system, such as
by holding and dragging a projected device along the wall to a new location.
IoT Killer Applications Design Rule 5: Best
UI Selection for Users
Neura
patent application US20150019714 illustrates the adaptable autonomous smart
home system. The adaptable autonomous smart home system can recognize the
contextual or semantic profiling of a person or place or devices (physical
environment) based on sensed data by the IoT devices. The adaptable autonomous
smart home system determines particular interpretation instructions (define
particular IoT device control rules) that are associated with the particular physical
environment and dynamically updates the control rules for changing physical
environment.
Qualcomm
patent application US20150185713 illustrates a smart home system that IoT devices
automatically perform their function based on the monitored user behavior.
IoT Killer Applications Design Rule 6: Adaptable
Autonomous System for Users
Microsoft patent application US20150262486 illustrates the connected
cars technology by which driver safety technology
such as collision detection is implemented via smartphone sensors and the cloud
service that processes
data received from vehicles associated with the smartphone. Beam Technologies patent
application US20150088538 illustrates
the cloud based smart health care system that provides various devices for
tracking and monitoring health statistics and behaviors including oral health,
fitness, heart health, bone health, salivary diagnostics and diabetes. Konkuk
University patent application US20150134727 illustrates a cloud based system for managing home
appliances that may efficiently manage a large amount of data generated by the
home appliances. IBM patent application US20140068180
illustrates a system capable of efficiently analyzing big
data.
IoT Killer Applications Design Rule 7: Maximum
Exploitation of Back-End Systems (Cloud, Big Data Analytics)
Centralized security architectures are sometimes ill-suited for the
IoT networks. For example, centralized authenticators may lack the flexibility,
granularity, and extensibility to make efficient and informed security
decisions in highly distributed and/or heterogeneous IoT networks. Accordingly,
security architectures capable of providing efficient trust mechanisms in
highly distributed open network environments are desired. Futurewei
Technologies patent application US20150135277 illustrates the trust management
framework that would be invaluable for addressing the current as well as future
IoT environments needs exploiting the distributed security architectures.
IoT Killer Applications Design Rule 8: Security
Architectures for Maximum Security Measures
Flextronics
AP
patent application US20140309790 illustrates a system to create an environment
within the vehicle similar to that of an individual's home. An individual who
is more comfortable while traveling instills confidence and pleasure in using a
given vehicle, increasing an individual's preference for a given manufacturer
and/or vehicle type. One way to instill comfort in a vehicle is to create the
integrating features in a vehicle that are associated with comfort found in an
individual's home by proving user’s profile data at home. The connected car
system receives user’s profile data from smart home system and determines
context to change a configuration of a vehicle. The configurations can include
comfort and interface settings that can be adjusted based on the user profile
information. Hyundai Motor Company patent application US20120120930 illustrates
a vehicle network system interconnected with a home network that includes a
vehicle information collection unit and a wireless transceiver unit. Further,
the user profiles can track health data related to the user and make
adjustments to the configuration to assist the health of the user.
IoT Killer Applications Design Rule 9: Exploration
of Cross-Industry Applications
Apple
patent application US20150237470 illustrates a system that can provide location-based
personalized services triggered by a personal geofence. The system can
determine that a venue located at a geographic location and frequently visited
by the mobile device in the past is associated with a particular item, service,
or activity. Upon receiving a query about the item, service, or activity, the
mobile device can create a temporary geofence around the venue. Using past
behavior patterns and a current location, the mobile device can determine a
condition to trigger execution of an application program or display of certain
content. The condition can be personalized to match a life
style of a user of the mobile device. PrimeSense patent application US
20140304647 describes the gesture-mediated remote
IoT device control system using the 3D sensing technology. LG patent
application US 20150253862 illustrates the mobile phone UI in person’s palms
exploiting a head mounted wearable mobile phone. Jibo patent application US20140277735
illustrates the friendly, helpful and intelligent home
robot that can adapt to reside continually in the
environment of a person and to interact with a user by combing robotics and artificial
intelligence. Affectiva patent application US20140200463 illustrates a practical possibility of
implementation of emotion-aware smart home IoT applications by determining
well-being status from an analysis of facial information and physiological
information of an individual.
IoT Killer Applications Design Rule 10: User
Experiences (UXs) for Maximum User Satisfaction
References
RIGHT NOW, THE INTERNET OF THINGS IS LIKE THE
INTERNET OF THE 1990S
A WORLD OF CONNECTED DEVICES ARE STARTING TO
COME ONLINE: DON'T MISTAKE WHAT THEY DO NOW FOR WHAT THEY'LL ACCOMPLISH IN THE
FUTURE (see
the article for details)
“A
common criticism of today's Internet of Things is that it doesn't have a
"killer app" to push the concept into the mainstream. But maybe it
doesn't need one. The Internet never had a killer app either; it just got
better tools to make sense of all its disparate parts.”
Design Thinking and Internet of Things (see the video)
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