Rochak – The smart & connected wardrobe

Tuesday morning, just got up (an hour earlier than usual) with loads of thought flying across, amongst which the one which stands out “Am I going to close this deal?”  This deal is very important for me personally, and for our company too. My unit representing our company have been making lot of efforts to buy this new Logo and seems like finally we should be able to get in. However, challenge is I’m left alone to negotiate and close as my boss urgently had to fly out of town to meet out some un planned engagements leading behind adequate instructions for me.

If am able to seal this deal, I know what’s there for me. And I really don’t want to fail.  Thus, I got up an hour earlier than usual, just to ensure I’m not missing out on anything while I start for my meeting. Sipping over a cup of tea, I put on the checklist for a quick review. I can see everything is in order, but there was a red light flashing across item #9 which indicates that I haven’t yet decided what to wear for the day.  On normal days my better half helps me out with this chore but even she is at her mother’s place. As I realized its only me who is going to help myself to select and decide the attire, I sincerely wished “God, can’t there be a Smart Wardrobe assisting me”

Smart Wardrobe, did I just sounded that?

Alright then, this is interesting. Let us walk through a Smart Wardrobe then taking up the aforementioned scenario as one of the potential Use Cases.

My wardrobe is Smart and Connected and let me name it as “Rochak”. So as long as Rochak is there, I would not lose my nerve and waste 30 odd minutes in absurd thinking under such a situation, which now I’m taking as typical Use Case.

Rochak is connected to the internet. It has permission to access my calendar, thus it is very well informed about my days and schedules. So for the Tuesday’s meeting, Rochak advises me to dress in XYZ Suite and also suggested 2 next best alternates. The basis on which Rochak arrived with those suggestions are as follows:

1.      My Calendar:  The criticality of the meeting was mentioned in the schedule and the high priority flag is being considered.
2.      Driving Conditions: The drive time between my start point to venue of the meeting is being picked from any of the maps (with present traffic conditions).
3.    Weather Forecast: It pulls the weather data points from any of the met. services that are available.
4.      Personalized Data:  I have allowed Rochak to perform an analysis on my wearing habits (time, days, months, colour, fabric etc.)

Likewise, there are few more data points which Rochak will pick and process together to arrive to the type and texture of cloths that I should be wearing.

Rochak will now poll the wardrobe inventory and select top 5 attire for me based on the data processed as above.

Complete set of attire including Shirt, Trouser, Suit, Tie, Shoes, Watches etc. 

And, precision of Rochak’s decision depends on the level and granularity of data which it has handle to.

Rochak – The smart & connected wardrobe

So we just discussed a typical Use Case which Rochak is capable of handling.

Considering all the items bears imperishable RFID tags, Rochak connects with the cloths and accessories and extracts relevant data points such as: When it was manufactured, when it was moved to shop, when it was purchased, when it was first used, how many time it has been used, number of time it went through the laundry, number of time it underwent repairs / alterations etc. It will also look for any personalized information tagged to it such as “Lucky Shirt”, “Special Gift” etc. These data will be processed in a pre-configured rule engine and then Rochak will send me a notification leading me to its suggestions. It will tell me, how many items I need to discard with proper classifications. Rochak before sending out this notification, also did a detailed search in the marketplace. And the result as send by Rochak also gives me option whether I would allow Rochak to push the items to a Buy / Sell portal or it can take it to a NGO portal offering the items to be donated.

Depending upon which item goes to which place, Rochak handles all transactions end to end. The only manual intervention it requires from me is to pick and pack the items and ensure I’m avail at the time when  somebody comes to pick them up.

Similarly, Rochak is capable to offer more services. Depends upon the extent we want to take this.

Rochak is smart, Rochak is connected …… Rochak Rocks !!