Connected Devices Weekly Update/2016-11-03

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Program		Passed Gate	Status	Notes
Project Sensor Web	Cindy/Jean	Gate 1	On Target	Bulleted list item Bulleted list item
Project_Haiku (taking in Project Smart Display)	Liz/Joe/Mahe	Gate 0	On Target	Bulleted list item Bulleted list item
Platform and Tools	Sandip/Nicole/Mahe	N/A	On Target	Bulleted list item Bulleted list item
Voice Platform - Deep Speech	Sandip/Nicole	N/A	On Target	Bulleted list item Bulleted list item
Abigail	Preeti/Julie	Gate 0	On Target	Product Concept Validation Launched a consumer study Oct. 25th to test two different value propositions with groups of 100 in the target demographic group. Will monitor results and review the questions we're asking for appropriateness. Also launched a Facebook campaign and landing page to gauge interest in Abigail and collect email addresses. Working closely with an agency on the Abigail video that will feature how a family of four can be helped by Abigail. Models of Abigail have been printed in 3D to be used in the video and available for studies. Wrote and posted a blog on Abigail. Engineering Spending this week with testing code, bug fixing. Working on getting voice commands with user names working. Getting the base code running on the 5 prototype devices and preparing them for use in the study. Working on a problem identified with flaky accelerometer connections. Looking into loose jumper wires. Concept Validation Testing Study was started October 28th to test a couple concepts for the Abigail product: 1) Smart Family Tracker and 2) Smart Reminders for the Whole Family A Facebook campaign has been active since October 26th to test consumer interest using different product concepts. Data is coming in on how well this is driving consumers to Abigail product page. Revisiting how to produce a video to showcase all the functionality that Abigail can provide. Abigail Study with Prototypes Finishing up work on a prototype study guide that will be used during the visits to participant homes. Scheduling participant sessions. The first will be held November 11th. Abigail team members will be interviewing the participants and observing their interactions with the Abigail prototypes. Study will include consumer interaction with the prototypes and collection of feedback regarding usage and responses to questions asked of the consumers. Schedule Value proposition validation - Oct. 24 - early November Status: On Target Prototype development: month of October Status: Completed - fixing bugs now Assembly of devices: week of October 31 Status: Nearly Completed - working on loose connections Testing in homes: November 7 - 18 Status: On Target - home visits are being scheduled Data synthesis from pilot and video/landing page studies: November 21 - 29 Gate 1 pitch: November 30
Project Magnet	David/Maria	Gate 0	On Target	Mozfest Project Magnet team London team attended to the Science Fair (Friday), they presented Magnet app with the new Virtual Beacon experience. Warm welcome and really good one to one feedback. Contacted to several storytellers interested in use Magnet as a channel to provide content in the future Mozfestation application: Dietrich, Liz and Katie run an experiment based on our app during Mozfest With very small changes in the Magnet app (as adding a counter of the beacons discovered with mozfest URL), 100 beacons were distributed in the venues encouraging people to visit all the ideas and spaces at Mozfest to discover them. With the info provided from Magnet server during the experiment, Mozfest team could track people movements and create a heat map of the spaces. The game was a success, and that's the reason we are right now exploring the call of adventure (gamification) and completeness as possible features in the UX of Magnet to make it more engaging/compelling for future versions. Storytellers could also provide a reward encouraging people subscribed to their channels to visit more POIs Magnet status This week we will finish our second sprint Sprint 7 In the client side Channels subscription is almost ready in iOS and Android and the team is working on the buzz notifications Server side: most of the work done, still working on an issue regarding to the 'extra_metadata' returned from the content service. Research product/solution fit: Landing page test for pre-signups and app downloads from Londoners is ready. Doing a small test run on the ads over next 2 day, then will choose and do a longer run.
HomeWeb	Ben/Mahe	Gate 0	On Target	Bulleted list item Bulleted list item
GameON!	Candice/Julie	Gate 0	On Target	Gate 0 Pitch Gate 0 Pitch was presented to the PIB on October 27th. Game ON! was approved to proceed through Gate 0. Approval was granted to add a UX resource and an electrical engineering resource to the team. Wiki will be developed and made available Check in with the team in the #gameON IRC channel. Engineering Work is now focused on building a PCB and eliminating all the wires currently necessary for connections. Looking at 3D printing with conductive ABS filament for possible experimentation with capacitive technologies for some of our accessories such as the spinner or figures. Game play is working end to end, and a demo of the game board has been recorded. Research Continuing research into competitor products, possible game ideas. Continuing to identify the best use cases. Consumer Studies Planning for prototype testing can proceed now that the project has Gate 0 approval. Team is consulting with the research team on development of a study to test consumer response to the product.
Lighthouse	Preeti/Julie	Gate 0	On Target	Bulleted list item Bulleted list item
3D Printing	Thomas	Pre Gate 0	On Target	Bulleted list item Bulleted list item
Participation Update	Michael/Brian	--	On Target	Bulleted list item Bulleted list item
Market Developments Update	Irina			Amazon & Alexa Alexa now works with Logitech's Harmony Hub Alexa will be available on Amazon Fire tablets Amazon expanded the Dash program to include more products and more countries Air pollution When pollution levels rise in Manhattan, stocks take a dive, according to a study from researchers at the University of Ottawa and Columbia University. One standard deviation increase in air pollution decreases returns by 11.9%. The research follows on previous findings of a link between the Air Quality Index and stock returns on fours US exchanges. Several government officials in the Shanxi province of China have been arrested in connection with an effort to mislead and falsify air quality data. They are accused of obscuring the filters with cotton to purify the air samples taken by the air quality stations. IoT platforms & security Samsung expanded its ARTIK IoT platform with 2 new modules: one for low-power and cost-optimized devices and one for high-end gateways and multimedia applications. The modules are designed to work out of the box with the Samsung ARTIK Cloud, an open data-exchange platform which allows device manufacturers to monitor and manage both end-points and gateways. Microsoft introduced a Security Program for the Azure IoT platform. The program brings together a curated set of security auditors that developers can choose from to perform a security audit on their IoT solutions, find issues and provide recommendations. The Security Program for Azure IoT will work from the ground up, examining everything from a businesses’ devices and assets to gateways and even communication to the cloud. Intel announced its latest generation of Atom processors for IoT applications. The chipsets are optimized to enable some of the processing needs of IoT systems to happen at or near the data sensor to alleviate the need to push all processing to the data center.
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