{"id":299,"date":"2015-10-20T17:18:36","date_gmt":"2015-10-20T17:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davra.com\/?p=299"},"modified":"2018-11-22T18:14:35","modified_gmt":"2018-11-22T18:14:35","slug":"usage-scenarios-driving-the-internet-of-things-part-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davra.com\/usage-scenarios-driving-the-internet-of-things-part-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Usage Scenario\u2019s driving the Internet of Things – Part 4"},"content":{"rendered":"

An introduction to\u00a0IOT Phase 3 \u2013 Operate\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (Remote Operation).<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n

From Fritz Langs \u2018Metropolis\u2019 in 1927 thru Blade Runner, Terminator, Minority Report, The Matrix and countless others, Hollywood has long been supplying us with a view of what the world would be like when the machines took over and to be honest its rarely looked good.\u00a0 Megalomaniac robot rulers, psychotic cyborgs and out of control operating systems seem to reinforce the message that the more we try to make machines think like us the more they\u2019ll start to act like us and that\u2019s not necessarily a good thing.<\/p>\n

However, back on the real world developments in the Internet of Things are starting to deliver real life technologies that would have Spielberg and his Hollywood friends feeling quite smug these days.<\/p>\n

Is Arthur C. Clarke the worlds foremost IOT inventor ?<\/em><\/h2>\n

Its arguable that IBM started the trend of mainstream companies launching \u2018moonshot\u2019 concepts that seemed straight out of sci-fi when they launched the personal computer in 1981 but there have been lots of breakthrough technologies since, most recently with Google and their self driving cars raising the stakes in 2011 and Amazons delivery drones just stepping the game up another notch late last year. Alongside this we have Google Glass, Project Loon (thousands of floating balloons providing WiFi to remote areas), Elon Musks SpaceX and arguably even Tesla electric cars all of which just reinforce the great Sci-Fi writers Arthur C Clarkes, 2nd Law of Prediction which is that \u201cThe only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible<\/strong>\u201d.<\/p>\n

Some would say that many of these technologies even stray into the realms of his 3rd\u00a0Law (my personal favourite), which states that\u00a0\u201c<\/strong>Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic\u201d,<\/strong>which to be honest all of the greatest technological breakthroughs could probably have been accused of at some point.\u00a0 Remember, its said that during the first public showing of the Lumiere Brothers 50 second film \u2018L’Arriv\u00e9e d’un train en gare de La Ciotat\u2019 ,<\/em>\u00a0(the Arrival of the train in the La Ciotat Station) in 1896 many audience members actually ran screaming from the cinema. Beat that Spielberg !!!!<\/p>\n

Attack of the Drones:<\/strong><\/h3>\n

On the face of it though a lot of these projects don\u2019t seem very real to people, they just seem like great ways to get publicity for companies that unlike our friends in Red Bull don\u2019t have a supply of crazy Austrians to jump out of spaceships for them but in reality they are just the precursors of the next generation of IOT and all of them are creating technologies that will play a big part in our lives in a couple of years.<\/p>\n

All of the mainstream car manufacturers have already demonstrated driverless vehicles of some description and the general consensus is that the technology is available but it\u2019ll be at least 2025 before we have the regulations in place to make them mainstream (who do you sue if you\u2019re injured in a crash between two automated vehicles ???). \u00a0Unmanned drones have been used for military purposes for years and with a quick search online I can buy a remote controlled drone to carry my GoPro camera for around $500 so the technology exists and its widely available, its just a matter of finding the use cases to justify it. \u00a0Amazon obviously have use case and they have the technology but as a B2C company they also have the human factor to deal with.\u00a0 There is a genuine concern that \u2018drone hunting\u2019 will be a major problem for them, as was recently brought to my attention by our good friend, Mike Fahrion in B&B Electronics (www.bb-elec.com<\/a>) an expert in the quirky side of IOT.<\/p>\n

Goodyear, for example, reports that their blimps regularly come home full of bullet holes so one can only assume that delivery drones would make equally tempting targets.\u00a0 The problem will only get worse when the marksmen realize that an accurate shot could reward them with anything from a free iPad Mini to a holiday sampler of sausages and cheese.\u00a0 (Provided that you\u2019re shooting them down on the outward journey, of course.\u00a0 If they were returning to the warehouse empty they\u2019d only be high tech skeet.)<\/p>\n

The town of Deer Trail, Colorado, is so sure that people would enjoy drone hunting that they\u2019re considering issuing drone hunting licenses.\u00a0 The vote won\u2019t be held until next month, but the polls are currently more than 7 to 1 in favor.\u00a0 At $25 the drone hunting licenses will be cheaper than a Colorado fishing license, and you\u2019ll get a $100 bounty if you bag a genuine U.S. government drone.\u00a0 Not as lucrative as downing an iPad Mini, perhaps, but a pretty good ROI just the same.<\/p>\n

Deer Trail expects that drone season will be great for tourism. Read more about it here:http:\/\/www.inquisitr.com\/1067162\/drone-hunting-season-colorado-judge-says-lets-vote\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Remote Control & Public Safety<\/h2>\n

Another area where the technology is available and desperately needed in the field, is in Positive Train Control (PTC), a function that allows trains to automatically slow down when approaching dangerous sections of track thus avoiding potential derailments.\u00a0 I covered this extensively in a recent blog (The Internet of Things \u2013 Is Saving Lives a Feature or a Benefit\u00a0<\/a>?) and again like driverless vehicles it\u2019s the lack of suitable regulations that are slowing down its introduction.<\/p>\n

So surprisingly enough, the third Phase of IOT, the concept of Remote Operation of Machines in the field is possibly the one that\u2019s most advanced from a technology perspective, its actually other factors that are slowing it down.\u00a0 The early stage field trials from visionaries like Amazon, Google and Tesla may seem crazy but by introducing the ideas and proving that the technology works they are forcing discussions at government and industry levels that will open the doors for the next generation of innovators to capitalize on.\u00a0 We won\u2019t be seeing robot street cleaners, remotely controlled shop assistants or droid delivery guys in the next year or so but the reality is they\u2019re not as far away as you might think.<\/p>\n

The Final Phase:<\/h2>\n

So now that we know what\u2019s coming, we can turn our attention to the last and final Phase of IOT to see where that will take us.<\/p>\n

Tune in next week for\u00a0 Phase 4 EXTEND – Provide Enhanced Digital Services & Content.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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