In yesterday's WWDC, Apple launched two major things, Homekit and Healthkit. There had been a lot of time spent on other items like Yosemite and Hand off and other features, but I felt that the most disruptive of the announcements yesterday was these two. Why do I feel so?
There had been solutions for measuring your BP, for measuring heart beat, for measuring movements and activity and the like. (Nike Plus and Fuel band etc). And similarly there had been applications for controlling a lot of your appliances in using smart phone.
But all that remained in silos and never talked to each other. Having an opportunity to have all of these synchronized into one place and to orchestrate these into useful workflows is a major leap in iOS eco system.
The home automation and personal health are seemingly disparate areas but have some common touch points. When some one elderly wakes up in night and have to grope for switch, if the lights can come on, and when someone who needs attention wakes up and you are intimated about that immediately, it can result in a lot of useful usecases.
I am sure, someone will come up with, if not Apple in its Watch, a technology to measure your Vitals and identify your mood, and say sensing your are panicking may call some SOS contact you have on your phone or message them with your location, without you lifting a single finger!
Or you walk into the home tired, your home senses that, also remembers what you did last time when you were down, (Like drink a cup of coffee and slump into the couch to watch the TV) and reacts to the situation accordingly. The home can really come alive around you!
There had been solutions for measuring your BP, for measuring heart beat, for measuring movements and activity and the like. (Nike Plus and Fuel band etc). And similarly there had been applications for controlling a lot of your appliances in using smart phone.
But all that remained in silos and never talked to each other. Having an opportunity to have all of these synchronized into one place and to orchestrate these into useful workflows is a major leap in iOS eco system.
The home automation and personal health are seemingly disparate areas but have some common touch points. When some one elderly wakes up in night and have to grope for switch, if the lights can come on, and when someone who needs attention wakes up and you are intimated about that immediately, it can result in a lot of useful usecases.
I am sure, someone will come up with, if not Apple in its Watch, a technology to measure your Vitals and identify your mood, and say sensing your are panicking may call some SOS contact you have on your phone or message them with your location, without you lifting a single finger!
Or you walk into the home tired, your home senses that, also remembers what you did last time when you were down, (Like drink a cup of coffee and slump into the couch to watch the TV) and reacts to the situation accordingly. The home can really come alive around you!
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