Shigeru Owada

Owada is interested in applications for smart houses, both in the services themselves and in developing the underlying software and services that make those applications easier to create. He is involved in supporting the emergence of a development community in this area. His achievements so far include developing Kadecot, a home API server for Android; the OpenECHO driver library for ECHONET Lite; and home-electronics connectivity web applications Kadeckly, Moekaden, and Hexflick. Owada is involved in hosting numerous events, including Home Hackers Workshops and Sessions, and is an active promoter of the smart house application developer community on Facebook. Owada has a masters degree in Computer Science and a doctorate (2005) in Information Science and Technology from the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo.