Facebook F8 Hackathon 2018
Housebooker
What it does
A platform to manage all your ioT devices at home, workplace, studio, etc.. with the ability to invite and grant access to other users from your Facebook's friend list. Access invitations can be either scheduled (effective within a timespan) or manually performed. "Request to Access" other devices prompts depending on the location & activity of the logged in user (For example, if the logged in user is in San Jose, the system will show him devices for friends/relatives in the area he might be interested in requesting access to them).
Effect on the community
- Make the world a smaller connected place.
- Solution for emergency cases (Requesting immediate access to a certain device)
- Make travelling easier by giving access to different devices based on the location.
- Generate early warnings about devices functioning in an unexpected manner based on previous behaviours
- Provide Facebook the ability to collect data and study the behaviour of each user based and how they manage their own ioT devices at home/work/etc.. and use the collected data for generating targeted Ads. Example:
- Light behaviour (Hours of sleep, etc..)
- Door Lock behaviour (How many hours does this person spend inside/outside the house, etc..)
- Microwave (Possible information gathering about the preferred type of food)
- AC/Heater (Information gathering related to temperature)
- TV (Information gathering related to movie genries, number of hours spent on TV, etc..)