IoT Demos & Drinks

There are currently 15 billion Iot devices, a number that is expected to grow to 200 billion by 2020! This includes wearable devices, smart items for your home, even products to interact with your pet all day, if you can dream it, Silicon Valley's got it! Come grab a drink and check out the most innovative IoT products out there.

Event Schedule:

6:00-6:30 Networking

6:30-6:50 Event speaker

6:50-7:30 Demo pitch:CocoonCam, OIDS, Waterbit, Tend, Comfee, Kii, Ring ZERO

7:30-9 Networking

Event Speaker:

Nikhil is a Sr. Manager for Multimedia at the Volkswagen Electronics Research Lab (VW ERL). Nikhil goes where he sees hard technical and business problems - over the years, Nikhil has worked on a number of cutting edge technologies ranging from a Hadoop like system way before Hadoop was conceived, robots to rehabilitate stroke patients, Enterprise Service Buses, Smartphone Development Platforms, Machine Intelligence, Ultrasound Machines that worked on smartphones and now cars!

One of the topics that Nikhils team at VW ERL works on is the smart home and IoT. During this presentation, Nikhil will present his stream of consciousness thoughts on this space, the way he sees it. The goals of his talk is not to give you pearls of wisdom you never heard before (because he does not think he has any!) but rather to give you his raw semi digested thoughts, to promote lively discussion.

Demo Companies:

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WaterBit enables growers to optimize yields as a primary outcome, through soil monitoring and related irrigation control. Our system is based on a proprietary, wireless enabled sensor design, that is being delivered at a revolutionary price/performance point, and backed up with extensive cloud computing and adaptive learning systems to enable scale. With a team background in product development, RF systems deployment, machine learning, horticulture and more, we are positioned to deliver outstanding value to growers worldwide.

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Hurley Research is a full stack IoT dev shop specializing in electronic and firmware design. Their flagship Oids IoT robotics platform sports the Nordic nRF51822 BLE/ARM SOC, Lattice ICE40 FPGA, and the ST Micro LSM9DS1 9-axis motion processor. Owner Jay Hurley will briefly present on Hurley Research and the Oids project. Please see https://oids.co and http://www.hurleyresearch.com/ for more information.

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Tend is a maker of lifestyle smart home products and apps that deliver awareness and insights through immersive experiences powered by computer vision technology. As the leading Vision-as-a-Service (VaaS) platform for the connected home ecosystem, Tend offers smart detection, live video streaming, and cloud recording services to help major IoT companies bring innovation into their products. With over 500,000 users on the VaaS platform, Tend supports one of the largest installed bases in vision for the Internet of Things. Tend is a member of the Embedded Vision Alliance. For more information, visit tendinsights.com (http://tendinsights.com/).

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FlipFlic, the unique device, uses solar to turn any shades into motorized window shades. Being solar powered, it helps use less artificial lighting, heating and cooling in your house by automatically adjusting daylight. Comfee functional settings can be changed via smart phone or tablet by using Comfee app (iOS, Android). Furthermore it can be integrated into the present smart home systems via BLE and ZigBee, global wireless standard. Originally from Estonia (EU), FlipFlic came to U.S. this fall, in order to be closer to the company’s target market.

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Cocoon Cam has built the only smart video baby monitor that offers an enhanced video and audio solution with a mobile experience and the ability to track your baby's heart rate, respiration, and skin temperature without ever touching your baby! Cocoon Cam marks the first transition from Wearable Tech to WearLESS Tech.

Rubi, the CEO, is a UC Berkeley graduate that brings the health care experience in strategy, operations, and marketing. Siva, the COO, brings more than a decade of hardware and embedded software experience. He has experience at Tesla and developing products from design to mass manufacturing at companies like Garmin. Pavan, the CTO, has a masters in Computer Science from UC San Diego. He has experience at Apple and with applying computer vision to the surveillance industry.

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Kii is focused on addressing the high-performance demands of innovation in the connected world with an end-to-end backend platform optimized for enterprise applications and the Internet of Things (IoT). Businesses of all sizes are able to build, test, deploy, optimize and acquire users from a single integrated platform to accelerate time to market. Trusted by the world's largest mobile carriers such as NTT Docomo, Kii currently serves 140M+ end users worldwide. Kii is a global company with data centers in the US, China, Japan and Singapore. For more information, follow @KiiCorp or visit kii.com (http://ctt.marketwire.com/?release=1189213&id=5910793&type=1&url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.kii.com%2f).

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Logbar Inc. develops and sells Ring ZERO (http://logbar.jp/ring (http://t.sidekickopen21.com/e1t/c/5/f18dQhb0S7lC8dDMPbW2n0x6l2B9nMJW7t5XX43MqgJCW4WYBXH63RHBxW5v_Sgz56dzyMf3tGbDP02?t=http%3A%2F%2Flogbar.jp%2Fring&si=4692812935462912&pi=8ee3be8d-a80d-4a6e-96f6-a7b2cfe8863e)). Ring ZERO is a wearable input device which allows you to control almost anything. Turn on TV, change presentation slide, and play game with Ring ZERO!

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