Arclinea for Expo 2015 : the Digital Lifestyle Experience

Sept. 22, 2015 - PRLog -- Accenture is bringing its Digital Lifestyle Experience to Expo Milano 2015, giving us a taste of what daily life will be like in the future. An innovative experience that anticipates and fulfils the consumer’s wishes and represents a re-visitation of the traditional method of shopping, capable of revolutionising the retail sector and giving us a glimpse of new ways in which stores, consumers and products will interact with each other.
Within Coop’s Exhibition Area, Accenture enables the visitor to continue the journey begun in the neighbouring Supermarket of the Future, an environment that combines a warm welcome with innovation, in which the social and functional aspects of the store are amplified in a virtuous union of the physical and the digital.

Taking a closer look, Accenture’s Digital Lifestyle Experience takes us on a digital journey. The journey starts in an area with three interactive displays, where we can choose from a number of everyday situations: at the gym, at the station with friends or on a lunch-break with your colleagues. As you chat, you find inspiration for a dish to prepare and, by using your smartphone and a simple augmented reality app, you choose the recipe and communicate with the intelligent devices in the nearby Connected Kitchen to check what you’ve got in your larder at home or, if necessary, buy what you need.

Once you have entered Connected Kitchen, designed and adapted to the needs and performances by Arclinea, a Wi-Fi connection allows you to look at the chosen recipes in the digital recipe book, see the level of difficulty and follow each step to make the dish. The larder and fridge doors in the Connected Kitchen provide us with a daily update on what products we have available at home, and are able to communicate directly with our smartphone to alert us to which products are about to run out or pass their use by date. Based on the information inserted manually or on our daily purchases on the internet, the fridge will also know what products should be included in the automatic shopping list, or those that must always be available in the kitchen. The intelligent larders and fridges also offer advice from the main social media and keep us informed as to the preferences of our friends for a certain product, also showing its rating, calculated on the basis of the comments and feedback left by other users.