IFA 2017 Review: Earlier Predictions Validated

Introduction

So what’s all this about then?

IFA 2017: An Overview

IFA in numbers

Big impact consumer stories and changes seen at IFA 2017

Smart Home Thought Leadership @ IFA: Key Note Speeches

Ageing-in-Place support is in place now and growing

Philips transitioning into a data solutions company

Prevention as the new model of financial incentive

Emotional intelligence in AI needed for acceptance

Philips health programmes touching smart home (1)

Philips health programmes touching smart home (2)

Personal digital medical profile: far fewer forms

Philips health programmes touching smart home (3)

Wearables and the health smart home ecosystem (1)

Wearables and the health smart home ecosystem (2)

Device-focused AI takes a leap in mobile devices

The four elements that define On-Device AI limits

Performance benchmarks - internal upgrades

Performance benchmarks: versus Apple/Samsung

Smart Home Thought Leadership @ IFA: IFA Next’ Speakers

We need to “amplify humanness, don’t take it away”

A call for “Compatibility over Competition”

Compatibility needed…after selling millions of chips

The next step of IoT goes “into the brain and the mind”

Digital power is not bound by normal “civilised codes”

Update: The “Pace of Progress” Model

Euromonitor’s model for tracking smart home and trend progress

Euromonitor’s smart home “pace of progress” model

Operational food inventory and auto replenishment arrives in 2017

User instals two physical elements; 100 items recognised at launch

Other brands spread into image recognition (even post-launch)

Conventional sensors are getting into new places and in new forms

Euromonitor’s smart home “pace of progress” model

Google’s AI arrives into the mix for appliance smart home networks

How many is “too many” for pilots in the cockpit?

Created for more compatibility but so far driving more division…

New voice-activated speakers arriving for AI assistant access

A previously published theory confirmed: “Master AI Hierarchy”

This type of issue is more likely now IFTTT is not a unique system

Efforts are going into basic AIs “making friends”

New Devices in Smart Home Ecosystems

A previously published theory confirmed: “One ring to rule them all”

New Devices in Smart Home Ecosystems: The Security Ecosystem

New weather sensors

New weather sensors (and AI-controlled garden robots)

The latest flat perspective overview of the system: security

New Devices in Smart Home Ecosystems: The Healthcare Ecosystem

Smart bathroom mirrors and smart beds

The latest flat perspective overview of the system: Health

New Devices in Smart Home Ecosystems: The Health Ecosystem

Electric cars linked to home energy manager AI

The latest flat perspective overview of the system: Energy

New Devices in Smart Home Ecosystems: The Unchanged Ecosystems

The latest flat perspective overview of the system: Entertainment

The latest flat perspective overview of the system: Appliances

Consumer Impact Around the Home: Progress on Auto Alchemy

The projected “ Auto Alchemy ” proposition: In a nutshell

The projected “Auto Alchemy ” proposition: How to access this

The seven trends that are converging and building Auto Alchemy

We tracked CES sign-posts at the start of 2017 for this proposition

We have now seen a jump forward on multiple aspects at IFA 2017

There is a separate large deck to provide full details on this subject

Consumer Impact Around the Home: Progress on Laundry Automation

Laundroid version 1 launched in May 2017

Future upgrades to the articulation technology

The future wash process for 2020-2024 visualised

New spectrometer identifies fibres and stains correctly

A flavour of what this scanner is capable of

What X-Spect does in the laundry context

Positives around this new X-Spect sensor

Negatives around this new X-Spect sensor (1)

Negatives around this new X-Spect sensor (2)

Ultrasound pre-treatment pen from Latin America

A one-stop “Laundry Station” for the full process

Some wider thinking on the process and context of automation

Other Relevant Trends

Biggest technology story in laundry was “Q-Drive”

The appliance brand “own label” chemical trend is growing

New business models are being tested in Europe (shared)

New business models are being tested in Europe (Circular 1)

New business models are being tested in Europe (Circular 2)

Grundig offers new ball sensor

Grundig introduces area- and material-specific cleaning features

Other appliance trends that proliferated at IFA 2017

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