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Transcript
Embracing the Internet of Things for cats Sally Shepard @mostgood
For cats??
None
None
Why am I here to talk about cat wearables?
Should I stay or should I go?
Redundancy!
“What about wearables for cats?”
“Wearables for cats!” !
None
None
Finding problems
MEET PAVLO
None
None
None
None
Cat research
Over 55% of cats are overweight or obese.
200-300 million cats are kept as pets.
110-165 million potential users
None
None
Solving problems
What causes obesity in cats?
Diet
> burned consumed
None
Requirement gathering
Track cat activity.
Make cat active.
Something needs to store and send data to the ..
☁
#
“brain” Toy Collar # ☁
“brain” Toy Collar # ☁
What’s the existing market like?
None
First to market means very little.
$
Prototyping
Lean Prototyping
“brain” Toy Collar # ☁
“brain” Toy Collar
Toy Collar
Toy Collar
Collar
Lean collar prototype
None
Minimum: - track movement - communicate
MetaWear: www.mbientlab.com
Faster Prototyping (board)
None
“temporary brain” Toy Collar
None
None
None
Toys
Lean toy prototypes
None
Smart air flow ball
Smart egg Toy
“temporary brain” Toy Collar
None
Cat steps are not the same as human steps.
Raw data.
Quantify.
Following the cat around. Jump Walking Sleeping Grooming Eating Running
None
Lots of data.
A less Lean tangent: Kinect
User testing with cats
User testing with humans
“A cat is a puzzle for which there is no
solution.” - Hazel Nicholson
“A cat will do what it wants when it wants,
and there’s not a thing you can do about it.” - Frank Perkins
Challenges of testing
None
None
The future!
Super-smart toys
CTaaS (cat toys as a service)
Collar attachment
Track additional behaviours.
%%%%%%%%%%% %%%%%%%%%%% %%%%%%%%%%% %%%%%%%%%%% %%%%%%%%%%%
1) Cats 2) Internet 3) ???? 4) &&&&
Hire some awesome people.
A cool name.
'
hardware possible
You can always make it leaner.
As long as you are solving a problem, nothing is
too silly.
Thank you for listening! Sally Shepard - @mostgood Pavlo (cat)
- @UIKitten
Questions?