Google unveils Android@Home Video

Google unveils Android@Home Video Transcript

-We wanna go one step further and broaden the concept of what exactly is an android accessory. We'd like to think of your entire home as an accessory or better yet as a network of accessories and think of android as the operating system for your home. We call this vision Android at home. At the center of the Android at home architecture is your Android device. We're extending the Android OS to include new services that allow Android apps to discover, connect and communicate with appliances and devices in the home. We call this the Android at home framework. For appliances that cannot connect to Wi-Fi, we design an open wireless protocol that allows Android devices to talk to them. This new protocol enables low cost connectivity with anything that's electrical in your home such as lights, alarm clocks, thermostat, dishwashers, etc. We wanna think of every appliance in your home as a potential I/O device for Android apps. So, let's take a look at a couple of them of this stuff. Let's bring the stage life's down just a little on off and on. Would like to show the audience the trick you just learned. -Yes I would. -Okay and I'm just taking a little theatrical license. -What we just demonstrated was a very simple hello world type app on his tablet. The display is a series of digital light switches. Using the android at home framework, this tablet can talk wireless to these 2 floor lamps so now it can turn them on and off. The other 2 switches are linked to these 2 super bright audience lights on the left and right and on can also control them wirelessly. Okay, now, that you know how to control the lights, you can let your imagination as a developer completely take over. Imagine the new ways you'll be able to deliver notifications. You could build an alarm clock out that slowly wraps up the lights in the room starts playing your favorite music through the stereo as the alarm time approaches or imagine how your application could tie in the calendar to automatically controlled home devices. If you're a game developer, think about how this functionality could make game play more immersive. Imagine using the android at home framework to control an irrigation system and enable a real world farm [unk]. If you don't win the game, then your garden dies, right? So, there's significant incentive to go a good job. As a quick example of this idea, we hooked the stage lights up to white and so as an unknown plays the game. You can see it up here on the screen and fire shots, you will see these light flash. Now, these are actually connected to the game. It's communicating through Android at home in controlling these lights. Okay, okay, you get the idea with that. So, to bring this vision to reality, we're partnering with several industry players. One I'd really like to mention is lighting science, one of the world's leading LED lighting technology manufacturers. They will start selling the first LED light bulbs and switches for the Android at home environment by the end of this year. Prototypes of their Android at home compatible bulbs are being used here on these onstage lamps. We also have a number of Android at home enable devices available for you to play with an interactive zone. So, please stop buying, check them out. Alright, I'm gonna walk up to the side of the stage. The next thing I'd like to show you is a totally new kind of Android device. It's an android at home hub. It's both a stand alone music player endpoint and a bridge to the Android at home network. We call it Project Tungsten. Let's take a look at a couple of actual devices. These are our reference designs. Alright, so what we have here are 2 tungsten devices. A tungsten device runs the Android OS and the android at home software framework. It's always powered on and always connected to the cloud. It has audio out and these examples can connect either speakers or my home stereo systems. So, let's bring the stage lights down again, just I can show something else cool. If you had noticed, the hub has crazy lights on them, and look at the shape of this thing. I know that might clear on early mentioned our [unk] extraction team. I mean how could this be anything bad alien technology. Alright, so we can bring the lights up a little bit now. So, what exactly these do. Earlier today, Paul showed you our Music Beta service on the phone and on the tablet. Here, we have the same music service working with these new devices, so and now let's turn off the volume on one of them. You could imagine that this device is playing music and say the living room. We take a look at the tablet [unk] is using. We can see that he's in the music app, but there's a new feature to select an output device. The tablet can direct music to one or more tungsten boxes like the ones we have here. So, [unk], I want you to start music on both of them. So, you can enjoy your music synchronized throughout your house all streaming through Music Beta. So, when an on tapped on those buttons, the music stream was sent transparently from one box to the others. Since the boxes are running android, they just pull the music directly from the music library in the cloud. Alright, all these functionality that you've seen here is part of the Android at home framework and it will be completely open for developers to explore and write their own applications. To give an example of the kinds of applications we have in mind, we put together a very simple demo. This is actually another tungsten. It looks very different from those, but it's another example of the device. So, when we show this example, I want you to keep in mind that this is just a conceptual example; it's not an actual product. [unk] has some CDs here. Imaging that these CDs shift with an NFC or near field communication tag inside the jewel case, which activates when you take off the packaging. Let's gonna take one of the CDs, run [unk], let's gonna touch it to his device. The chyme means that it's been added to my library, the entire CD. If we touches it again, thank you, thank you. If he touches it again, it starts to play. So, it's pretty cool, right? We can add another CD like Santana and start playing it. Okay, well, That's it for this Android at Home preview. We hope that you can see how this combination of new cloud services software and devices enables a whole new universe of applications. You'll hear a lot more about Android at home over the next few months. Thank you guys.