Oli is a friendly washing machine that only works with the mobile app WashBuddy. the washing machine washes clothes, dries them, irons them, perfumes and folds them. It has a clothes basket integrated so you put your dirty clothes directly in the washing machine. It has 3 compartments for white, black and colored clothes. The bottom of the clothes basket opens and let's the clothes fall into the tube for the wash cycle. A drawer like space at the bottom of the washer has 4 integrated containers: detergent, clothes softener, perfume and desinfectant. The machine extracts the needed substance from the specific container. You don't need to put detergent in every time you wash. Each container has a capacity of 2l. After the cycle is finished you take the clothes out and put them in the Foldimate system for folding situated at the top of the washing machine. The wash cycle is monitored and started with the help of WashBuddy app that comes with the washing machine. You can wash clothes from anywhere you are and monitor the wash process. The process of washing takes only a few minutes, you can be elsewhere when it happens, your clothes are ready to be weared immediately, they smell good and are clean and desinfected. The washer desinfects itself once a month. The washing machine and app let's you do things you like and not stress about washing clothes even when you are not at home.
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Hello and welcome to the project, nice and complete presentation. I like how thought through the whole process is and the interaction with Wash Buddy. My only point would be that in a case of malfunctioning or any other issues, it's always best to allow users to fall back on manual controls. In your case, I think that you could include manual controls just as a safety measure, in case the wifi connection doesn't work or if the app has issues communicating with the machine.
Who is the target user you are focusing on? Good luck with the development in these last few days.
I believe you meant Oli to be the counter side of Tez, one being designed for singles which live in smaller homes while the other is designed for families and bigger housing options. Well done!
Hi. Thank you for the appreciation. Actually, if you check the final slides from both Oli and Tez, they explain their main target and even have personas examples. Tez is designed for smaller homes, but not necessarily single people, but more middle class people, and Oli is designed for upper class people, that have bigger homes, you are right, but it can fit a regular home also. If you like to check the slides, they will fill in the gap. Thank you again
Very nice app-integration. i like how you use the machine through the app, but you should explain to people why exactly they need to sign up for an account or something. many, especially older people will not understand that.
Hi. Thank you for the comment and appreciation. It seems I skipped that part of the explanation: People need to sign up when they download the app because each washing machine has a product code and the app correlates to the code, so if your neighbour has a WashBuddy it can only start the wash for it's own machine and not yours. It seems you pointed out something with this: I should have entered another box before the email and password where the client needs to enter the machine code, that comes on a sticker on the washing machine. Then the machine only responds to your commands and if you change your machine you tap the change Buddy action and simply write the new machine code. thank you for making me realize this ;p
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