How Azure Helps You Cook Meals

How awesome would it be to find a recipe on a website, and be able to have the recipe and preparation instructions sent to your oven? That is now possible because of the collaboration between Miele & Cie. KG and Microsoft. “Miele & Cie. KG, a leading manufacturer of high-end domestic appliances and commercial equipment, is announcing a proof-of-concept study based on Microsoft Azure Internet of Things (IoT) services that will help usher in the next generation of smart appliances and home cooking.” This collaboration is to recognize new “Internet-enabled customer experiences.”

Once a recipe is selected from Miele’s website, the recipe and food preparation steps are downloaded to a person’s tablet or smartphone, “and the matching program is loaded onto the oven through Azure.” This sounds amazing to me, but it doesn’t end there! The oven is them programmed to cook the selected meal “using the proper operating mode, temperature, cooking time, humidity and other factors, taking out guesswork and promising great results.” The hope is for people to get the best results out of the appliances they cook with.

This joint project is currently “classified as a study, but other applications are conceivable on the Microsoft platform, such as status report, remote diagnostics and predictive maintenance.”

I’m in! Are you?