To reach this target within the four “technical” (WP1, WP2, WP3, WP4), one of marketing (WP5) and one ethical (WP7) work packages, the work started with the asset developed for Iteration 1. The six use cases, identified during the first reporting period through a user centered design approach, were further developed according to technology findings and tested with users. New functions, like thermo and hygrometric comfort algorithms, were proposed based on interest, while the progressive lens use case were stopped due to the combination of technical limitation and low business interested.
The product requirements for the Iteration 2 and 3 were updated in terms of functional and technical requirements, and criteria of quality acceptance.
Based on the results of the requirements, use-cases and finding coming from the Iteration 1 the project has been able to develop:
1. Each I-SEE product components (frame, HW and SW). During this second reporting period indeed the project realized:
• technical and design details of the eyeglass frame developed for Iteration 2 and 3;
• the complete electronics design included the Iteration 2 and 3 hardware development (e.g. HW, Mechanics and low level FW);
• the app and SW (Android & iOS) code;
• the set-up of big data platform and make it compliant to GDPR;
• the development of algorithms capable to extract additional and structured information from the data gathered by the sensors embedded in the I-SEE glasses.
2. Product prototypes for Iteration 2 and 3 in which all the components have been integrated.
As the final step of this reporting period, the testing protocol was applied according to the ethical frames and then the user test of the platform, App and glasses were performed.
In parallel the project aligned the technical work packages and outcome with market orientation (WP5), identifying the project strategies for I-SEE product market, distribution and communication. The I-SEE was resulted as real product platform enabling the development of sun- and prescription- eyewear for both B2C and B2B markets.
A new I-SEE application was implemented according to product requirements and its the user interface is completely different from the Data Science App developed with the Iteration 1 glasses, since this is targeting end-user and not scientists/developers.
The end-user App was designed in order to have similar, but not ‘exact’ due to technical limitation, experience in Android and iOS.
The total number of use cases are 9 as the number of icon in the App dashboard. Figure 3 shows an example for the skin UV monitoring use case for different environmental stimuli and user profile. This menu shows all the different top views of the application and is used to navigate the application. In the top it shows the status of the connection to the device.
The overview of the Android application architecture was developed (see D2.8 and a D2.9 (Mobile) Platform Test Bed 2 and 3), maintaining modularity and OO principles in mind but differentiated based the Operating System.
Within WP5, the marketing activity included the exploration of both B2C and B2B market. For the former, a new brand (i.e. Alite) and crowdfunding campaign were prepared based on a prescription-wearer user. For the latter, after having explore the opportunity with Opticians, we pivoted the focus through Scientists and Developers since the increase interest in such new tool for enabling new research studies and integration within smart environment. Therefore, the original envisages Web Platform of Opticians (WPO) was converted in a portal through which researches and developers can manage the data acquired and stream in the cloud.
From one hand the launch of the B2C crowdfunding campaign was placed in hold due to the change on the market landscape after the merging between Luxottica and Essilor (see D5.1 for more detail), on the other hand the Luxottica has already been proposing the product (eyewear, App and cloud) for the B2B market to potential clients.
