The Road to IoT 2.0: Requirements, Challenges and Solutions
An article by Dr. Erik Volkerink, Chief Business Officer and Executive VP of Heptagon, a member of the ams group, Armen Kazanchian, Founder and President RF Digital Corporation, a subsidiary of Heptagon, and Skanda Visvanathan, VP and GM of Heptagon’s 3D Imaging Business.*
First generation IoT products positioned the mobile phone application as the one-to-one remote control of a product and at times were more gimmicks demonstrating wireless technology than truly enhancing user experiences. As we are heading toward a world with 10+ IoT products per user or household, the model of having a dedicated app per product is quickly running out of steam: intuitive, user-friendly and seamless ways of interfacing will become paramount. Next generation user interfaces need to be truly centered on the user and their habits versus centered on specific product specifications. They will need to be dynamic, context and location aware, and span across multiple products rather than exclusively serving one specific product. In fact, next generation user experiences are not bound to the screen of a mobile phone but involve augmented and virtual reality, gesture recognition, eye-tracking, and voice-controlled virtual assistants with authentication not through fingerprints or simple pin codes, but through touchless iris scanning or face recognition. Products will need to become truly smart – smart enough to interact with the environment to enable seamless integration in a very secure fashion: Welcome to the Interface-of-Things™. Read more…
