Real Estate Use Cases

Session Topic: Real Estate Use Cases: Problems, Solutions, Opportunities (E.g. Aging In Place)

Wednesday 3C

Convener: Bill Wendel

Notes-taker(s): Doc Searls

Discussion notes, key understandings, outstanding questions, observations, and, if appropriate to this discussion: action items, next steps:

Setting the stage:

The home is the major component of the built environment where we spend our time
It has appliances that can track their life cycle information: refrigerator, heater, hot water heater, air conditioner, microwave, refrigerator, washing machine, dryer
It has communication and mains infrastructure: electricity, phone, internet, television
it has a very rare ownership transfer cycle, and a very long "own" cycle
Omie, a table being developed by Customer Commons, has no "silo" and is individual-centered. We can consider the Omie as the table for the home
If Omie was the "GUI for the connected home", imagine it set in the wall near the door

Registering devices in the home:

Science fiction, a possible gestural language for registering devices
Square tag could do registration via QR code
Read write near field
Scott Jensen (http://jenson.org/): the connected home is not just, lights to go on when I get home. Because the logic is mind boggling--is someone sleeping? who is in the bed? The permutations are mind boggling. The programming languages are currently way too simple.
See Zada, a silo that is solving these problems
the "aging in Place" movement, 125 4th parties or villages, who help operate the home on behalf of elderly people
Angie's list--advertising home services

Discussion

Appliances have a class code (barcode) not an instance code
Bigger appliances may have the serial number expressed in a bar code
Stealth connectivity--two stories, the Samsung TV story and the GE dishwasher story. Calling out, the Samsung TV reported all behavior by default, just because that function was built-in--Samsung was not even collecting the data.
How do we make this less scary (that everything is connected)?
Perhaps the data could be sent via the electric network. Electricity is great because it is daily, active.
It could be a diagnostic tool
User as the point of integration--the user has to put all the pieces together
Community group could get this going--we could gamify an entire block. But community means mutual trust, there might be issues with that.
In real estate there is an essential issue, who owns the data behind the listing? A power and manuals device could allow intent casting of a for sale offer, could even intentcast for-sale intentions years in advance. If this is under control fo the owner, it would be a game changer.

Comparing Home device with Fuse (device for a car)

Fuse gathers all the data of your car in one place
Edmunds.com chariman told Phil: if you have all the data on how the car was maintained, that would cause a differential in the price
Each fuse has a unique UUID, this could be mapped to an XDI name (=windley*fleet_ford_truck)

Proposals for 'a beginning'

At the end of the real estate transaction, you get a house gift: a tablet with everything on it that relates to the home
Like the drawer with all the manuals
Replace the "drawer"
Include the financials, the escrow, the mortgage documentation
Low hanging fruit: power consumption of each device in real time
Compare with Make a training course, on how to do a
each house could have an =10.main.street address in the cloud; terra.gov is a related effort by the builders, a response to failures in the MLS
inman.com runs the most digitally advanced real estate firm, they have an annual convention

Why a device and not hosted, in the cloud?

Appliances

GE had to re-flash a rinse cycle SW, and it required a truck visit. So now, GE dish washers have a GSM card in them. It could be sending back user information.

Applications

Aging at home list: they offer

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