iilab - Open Droplet - Innovate UK
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Open Droplet is an open and smart water sensor for the home that will help you save water and save money. This is our pitch to Innovate UK requesting financial and business support to work on our acoustic sensing technology, physical user interfaces to data and data-driven community engagement.
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- 8. Data £ 5 Analytics Direct Sales Retail Partners £50 100 000 in 2 years
- 10. Business mentoring and partnerships £120K for 12 months Acoustic Sensing Interface Communities
- 11. System Candidates Engineering Samples. In Home testing Session Workshop Analysis Workshop Hackathon Early Sensor Bench-top Guidelines for Physical Interfaces for Data Guidelines for Data-Driven Community Engagement Integrated Benchtop Selection Month 0 Month 3 Month 6 Month 9 Month 12 Acoustic Sensing Interface Co-Design Community Co-Design Integration Documentation White Paper Preparation Preparation Algo testing Hardware testing Analysis Engagement testing Integration Ongoing Open Documentation Analysis
- 12. Save Water, Save Money droplet@iilab.org
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- Hello, my name is Jun Matsushita, I am the founder and CEO of iilab, and with (click) Resurgence and UCL we are developing
- Open Droplet is an open and smart water sensor that will help you save water and save money. Our team is here to ask for financial and business support from Innovate UK and its partners in order to develop 3 key and interrelated industrial research components that are going to help bring our product to market.
- We're completely in the dark about our most precious resource: water. We're in the dark about how we are billed, about how our personal water habits impact our consumption and our bills, and some of us are trying to understand how this relates to a looming water crisis. One thing we do know is that as water gets more scarce, it will cost more money.
- Existing devices are invasive, expensive and difficult to install. You have open your pipes to install them and still they don't allow you to find out about the details of your water consumption.
- Our solution is Open Droplet. is Simple: it is non-invasive and is installed just by finding a bit of shelf space for the sensor in your bathroom or kitchen. Then, when you're in the shower for instance, the sensor listens to the sound of the water flowing and evaluates the amount of water you use.
- It's Beautiful: we're researching physical interfaces that go well beyond the screen and are in themselves beautiful objects. We’d love to show these ideas to you, but this is the focus of our second industrial research component. You can imagine that as you shower, our sensor interface lets you know by its shape or sound whether your water use matches your goals, for instance with a flower opening and closing, responding to your water use.
- It's Smart: when you receive an Open Droplet reminder, you can see the detail of your household's shower usage and how much water you've used on washing your dishes or other appliances. You know if you are saving on your bill, and you can get feedback from your water utility or your city on how to save water and money. You and your community can be empowered to make smarter choices about water that can have a systemic impact.
- Open Droplet has a huge potential to grow within the smart home market, estimated to grow to 40 billion pounds by 2020. With an estimated retail price of around 50GBP per kit, we’re targeting 100 000 units sold in the first 2 years through direct online sales and with retail partners (homebase, BnQ and white goods sections of mainstream retailers). With the right commercial partnerships and support, we can grow faster. With customer analytics platforms, we’ll also develop innovative commercial opportunities with the water utility sector and city agencies to create recurring revenues.
- Open Droplet is building on work done by UCL and Dr. Sarah Bell. Bringing in expertise on urban water systems, including working with Thames Water, Waterwise, and the London Sustainability Exchange on water efficiency projects and developing community centered technology design approaches with the UCL Engineering Exchange which Dr. Bell founded this year. We’re partnering with Resurgence, hosted by the Open Data Institute and bringing Mark Harvey’s high-level strategic expertise on developing relationships with cities and the private sector through the 100 Resilient Cities Network. iilab brings world class technology and user experience expertise and a 20 years track record in researching and developing software and hardware technologies for large companies and international non-profit organisations. We’ll develop new skills and knowledge on acoustic sensing and physical interfaces. We have the in-house technical and design expertise, and developed an industrial research plan and developed strategic partnerships, but our technology social enterprise operates at break even with a consultancy business model which doesn’t allow us to undertake this project on our own. Which is why,
- We‘re requesting business support from Innovate UK to grow a scalable business model for Open Droplet and 120 000 pounds to develop 3 interconnected industrial research components: an innovative acoustic sensing technology allowing the capture of water flow data with non-invasive machine learning approaches. secondly, to generate adoption we need to make the sensor data accessible and appealing to a variety of customer segments, which is why our second research component will focus on developing innovative user interfaces for sensor data with a user centric design methodology, finally, engaging with water utilities will be critical to our commercial success, therefore our third industrial research component will focus on the interplay between communities and smart metering and will generate knowledge and methods that will support new commercial opportunities for increasingly customer-centric water companies. Overall, our open approach means that this public investment will stimulate innovation in the water sector, but also benefit the broader UK smart home and IoT markets with new valuable knowledge and methods.
- We’ll deliver an early version of the sensor on Month 8. This will feed into an in-home testing activity where we’ll test our physical interface concepts developed through a co-design approach with a selection of participants. We’ll also research the community dimension of data driven engagement and how this can support commercial innovation in the water sector. in our integration phase we’ll bring these components together in an integrated benchtop which we can use for demonstration purposes. We’ll also document the whole process and make a summary analysis of this innovative approach to user and community centric technology development in a white paper.
- Open Droplet is a Simple, Beautiful and Smart water sensor It'll help you save water and save money. With Innovate UK support we'll have the financial and business partner we need to capture the growing global smart home market.