IOT interaction system

A computing system for facilitating interactions with embedded devices, comprising:

• one or more processors;
• and
• one or more memory devices, the one or more memory devices storing computer-readable instructions that when executed by the one or more processors cause the one or more processors to perform operations, the operations comprising:
• obtaining a first set of data indicative of a plurality of past interactions between a user device and a plurality of embedded devices associated with a building wherein, for each of the plurality of past interactions, the first set of data is indicative of one or more locations of the user device, an embedded device with which the user device interacted, and a type-of-interaction associated with the embedded device with which the user interacted;
• generating a second set of data for each embedded device of the plurality of embedded devices based at least in part on the first set of data, wherein each second set of data is indicative of at least a number of interactions between the user device and the respective embedded device for the one or more locations;
• creating one or more affordances for one or more of the locations based at least in part on the second sets of data, wherein each affordance is associated with at least one of the one or more embedded devices;
• determining a particular location of the user device;
• identifying at least one recommended embedded device from the plurality of embedded devices based at least in part on the particular location of the user device and the one or more affordances;
• determining a recommended interaction associated with the at least one recommended embedded device based at least in part on the particular location of the user device and a type-of-interaction of a past interaction with the at least one recommended embedded device;
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• providing information about the at least one recommended embedded device and the recommended interaction associated with the at least one recommended embedded device to the user device.

A computer-implemented method of facilitating interactions with embedded devices, the method comprising:

• determining, by the one or more computing devices, one or more semantic locations associated with a first building;
• obtaining, by the one or more computing devices, a first set of data indicative of at least a plurality of interactions between a first user device and a plurality of first embedded devices associated with the first building, wherein the plurality of interactions occur while the first user device is associated with one or more of the semantic locations;
• generating, by the one or more computing devices, a second set of data for each first embedded device based at least in part on the first set of data, wherein each second set of data is indicative of at least a number of interactions between the first user device and the respective first embedded device for one or more of the semantic locations;
• determining, by the one or more computing devices, a second location of a second user device associated with a second building;
• determining, by the one or more computing devices, whether the second location of the second user device is similar to one or more of the semantic locations associated with the first building;
• when the second location is similar to one or more of the semantic locations associated with the first building,
• determining, by the one or more computing devices, one or more second recommended embedded devices of a plurality of second embedded devices associated with the second building based at least in part on one or more of the second sets of data;
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• providing, by the one or more computing devices, information about at least one of the one or more second recommended embedded devices to the second user device.