Prevention of equipment breakdowns. The hospital has many devices on which human life depends, such as ventilators. You can install sensors on them - they will notify you even before a breakdown that the device is working abnormally and needs to be repaired or replaced.

Remote medicine. The hospital can be equipped with special equipment: monitors, cameras and robots. Then some experienced surgeon from will be able to remotely receive patients from Magadan - examine them, prescribe treatment, perform operations, consult local doctors.

Personnel check.

Hospitals are installing cameras that can recognize actions. These cameras can monitor whether a doctor is wearing a gown or how thoroughly they have washed their hands. If the doctor violates the regime, the camera notifies the authorities. There are schemes without cameras - for example, you can equip the gown itself with a sensor and monitor whether the doctor is wearing it and how it moves around the hospital.

We analyze each of their components by areas of decision-making. Namely UX, data, business, technology and security.

UX - for the sake of improving the user experience, we plan to launch this device.

To understand the need of the user of the Internet of Things device, we must form a personalized model or user persona. This concept came to hardware from design.

This composite image of your user helps minimize the bias of everyone involved in development and helps communicate your user's needs to different teams. The user description contains a clear description of the goals that he plans to achieve using your device.

Starting from personas, you can fill in the so-called "a day in the life" - a description of a typical user day, with all routine actions, and only then move on to a more detailed analysis of user job stories / user scenarios, where all user pains that you plan to solve and all scenarios for using your future device.

Having done a rather superficial analysis, we conclude that it is not worth reinventing the wheel for widespread categories of devices with simple functionality. It is worth thinking seriously about completely or partially reusing the finished “stuffing” and adding value by improving the user experience, whether it is a simple initial internet of things device setup, an intuitive interface, an interesting design that compares favorably with competitors, etc.

If, after studying your competitors in detail, you are 100% sure that you can make a product from scratch better and / or cheaper than all available on the market, and you have the necessary resources for this, go for it. At the same time, do not forget to weigh all possible costs - see the "Business" section.

Decision Matrix

A decision matrix is ​​added to the development cycle. In an ideal world, major decisions should happen in parallel with product strategy development, as there are so many overlaps.