Periodic Reporting for period 1 - SENSCAPE (A modular, open and standards-based framework for fast, cost-effective development of sensorbasedmobile applications)
Período documentado: 2017-02-01 hasta 2017-07-31
Companies wish to develop IoT applications using smartphones with external sensors for e-health, fitness and other applications. However there are costly and lengthy development times due to IoT being complex, and a new field.
The Senscape® Plug&work approach dramatically reduces customer time and cost to develop new IoT products and services.
Objectives of this Ph1:
1.1 Perform a SoA study to detect opportunities to improve our Senscape® technology.
1.2: Conduct a study with end-users and component providers, reaching a product development plan:
1.3 - Viability assessment on the use of a standard based framework to facilitate product enhancement, standardization and business innovation.
1.4 - Seek legal support and perform an updated freedom to operate analysis.
2.1 - Conduct a market study to reassess requirements and needs, price sensitivity, recent opportunities/developments, trends and market share.
2-2 - Update competition analysis to assess effectiveness of existing and emerging technologies.
2.3 - Customer development study with feedback from end-users.
2.4 - Perform a business ecosystem, stakeholder and scalability analysis.
We made a reassessment of market needs and the regulatory pathways that best accommodates our development. We conducted a study of feedback received from potential end-users of SENSCAPE and similar technologies. We also interviewed experts operating in the market: software architects, engineers, IoT user and distributors. With the collective feedbacks we managed to reach a better market-fit with the main risks identified.
The reasons why users will buy SENSCAPE go far beyond its use as a tool for engineers to speed up lead times of developing and manufacturing companies. During the execution of the Ph1 project we received several requests to develop with our resources new innovative IoT technologies based on SENSCAPE, from different sectors like Cloud Computing, Health, Energy, Construction and Tourism.