In today’s world, everyone is familiar with the technology of voice input. Voice assistants may be the prettiest thing, but Piccolo is going to launch a gesture based smart home. This technology involves a camera in every smart home with an ability to translate your gestures and physical motions into commands. The working of this product called “Vision Assistant” is quite simple. You can place a camera in your house at different positions. Once they are set, the app starts running and boxes are hauled over internet-connected appliances, fans, tv, lights, etc. The Piccolo camera runs continuesly to track your geometry through skeletal tracking technology. It does not uses X-ray or other harmful technologies for this. By tracking such activities and motion, device can understand where you are pointing your hand to create an interface with any household electronic item. It is not limited to on and off. Company is trying to make this product control Netflix show, change modes of fan, change room temperature, etc. The study behind Piccolo started by a duo who took part in Udacity’s self-driving program in 2016.
With an interest in self-driving cars, they emerged towards the technology of Piccolo of controlling the smart home with body movements and gestures. The company is not aiming to compete Google Home. They are trying this technology with the help of camera which can control your home. The startup of this project is still at the pilot program phase. They are working hard on it with new ideas and experimenting each of them.
So, what challenges will be faced by the company?
One of the biggest issue in getting success with this technology is to get people convinced and comfortable to add an internet-connected camera in their homes. Company will get an advantage as it is going to have a scrappy start with no competitors. Also, Piccolo’s technology works from a farther distance so that you won’t need each and every appliance connected with such device. At initial level, testing is done by raising hands straight up in the air and then pointing it towards the device to control.
You may feel Leap Motion and Alexa are better than this technology of Piccolo. But, team is trying to add each and every gesture and movement to control number of devices. These are initial days of the company which will changes the use of security cameras by transforming it to the smart-home.
