Designer Pages - Uses the Internet of Things to Help Their Customers

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DP Sens uses the Internet of Things to help their customers gain insights on how people interact with designed spaces by creating a sensor infrastructure & analytic tools.

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How will we use IoT?

Mediated space :

• Sonar/ proximity - moving through space
• Thermal - where people spend time in a space?
• LIght level/ light color - people engage in different product in different light
• Audio ( sound level ) - what kind of interaction/ activity is happening? ( meeting or chating)
• Lo-Fi pics (posture)
• Air flow/ quality
• Solar radiation - sun burn, yellow plastic
• Air pressure - affects ppl ( headaches)
• perceived heat
• Motion – space

Wearables :

• 3 degree rotation - dodging people
• Galvanic skin response - emotion
• Skin temperature - emotion
• Pulse/ pulsometry - relaxed? eating well?
• Brain waves - emotion
• Breath
• Sweat/ blood glucose level - anxiety

Product :

• Weight
• Orientation
• Force

Types of sensors

• Ambient

Non-human (elements of the space)

• Intentionality

Human intention (their movement, their actions)

• Biological

signals from humans (but they can’t control)

What’s the business model? Who pays for sensors? How are they distributed?

1. Vendor driven:

• Sensors embedded in products/samples by manufacturers

        - limited knowledge of use of space, more about the individual product

        - manufacturers already do extensive product stress testing

        + manufacturers often find it difficult to do stress testing in various environments/atmospheres, and it could be useful for that

        - would have to rely only on manufacturers that can do this capability

        - very specific to certain products (that can have sensors)

• Wearable sensors given out with products

2. Designer driven: (design firms pays for the sensor)

• Design firms install in their own test/prototyping labs

-  data would have to be private because they probably don’t want to share - so why wouldn’t design firm just do this themselves?

        + big firms already have test labs

        + more control

        + can test new prods

        - rely on their infrastructure

        - DP is only getting data from them

• Sensor in designed spaces to test and evolve the space

+ data could be shared (could be made private to design firm and client)

        + have existing spaces to utilize

        + real data / real user emotion, not simulated

        - good for building lots of knowledge, can’t be used for testing

        + could use existing designed spaces as “experimentation labs” and reduces requirement to create test labs (big investment for design firms)