What is SAPHIRE?
The Purpose
SAPHIRE aims at providing an intelligent household interface that can be applied to many future home appliances sans mesure, enabling them to understand your voice command and infer the user goals and tasks. Moreover, a SAPHIRE built device will try to suggest solutions to and assist in performing the user needs while ambiently orchestrating the processes and resources of the household.
SAPHIRE presents a cyber space model of home appliances to simulate, which both abstracts the current forms and functionalities of the appliances as well as extends them by introducing imaginative device-specific features.
By reading QR codes to inform the SAPHIRE system of your household, you will be able to automatically get your microwave ready to defrost frozen food, turn down the heating or air-conditioning, change the lighting, start a vacuum, fill-up a bathtub, and more! This smart system will expand your control, seamlessly integrate your voice commands into your house, making it more intelligent, cozier, and more efficient.
The Input and Output
The end user is provided with Google Glass as a front-end application. The user uses Glass to read the QR code of the target household subsystem (such as a microwave) and the target object (for example, a package of frozen chicken), and commands it to do an operation on them (for example, "cook a package of chicken")
The output of the system is automatic undestanding of the user commands and orchestration of the available household resources.
Project Proposal
A more detailed project proposal can be found here.