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For anyone not familiar with the Hype Cycle http://www.gartner.com/technology/research/methodologies/hype-cycle.jsp http://www.gartner.com/technology/research/m
by awjr 11y ago
For anyone not familiar with the Hype Cycle http://www.gartner.com/technology/research/methodologies/hype-cycle.jsp http://www.gartner.com/technology/research/methodologies/hyp... we're still in the "Peak of Inflated Expectations". I would have hoped we'd have hit the "Trough of Disillusionment" by now but it seems to be powering along quite nicely.
One of the big problems with IoT is the cost of the connectivity bit of the hardware. You want these things to be low powered but that costs money. You want these things out in the field, but providing constant power is a nightmare.
I've been looking at Automatic Number Plate Recognition networks using Raspberry PI2s, transmitting only the number plate to do transit route analysis. By the time you've added a battery, a GSM module,and a solar charging panel, it's suddenly become a £150 piece of hardware.
IoT is so so interesting, but I think the hype around it is driving money into the domain and people are just ramming the devices anywhere they can.
- nacnud 11y agoInteresting - what software are you using to do the recognition (if I may ask)?
- awjr 11y agoThis at the moment https://github.com/openalpr/openalpr https://github.com/openalpr/openalpr If you give me a vehicle database, I can tell you how many red cars are used on a route :) The more interesting calculations are based around CO2 emissions. I have the make and model and average speed between two points. I know roughly your emissions outputs. Accuracy is an issue but as long as ALL your ANPR devices read a number plate exactly the same it doesn't make too much of an issue.
- sjclemmy 11y agoI first heard of the hype cycle today - but it was mentioned in an article on microservices. An example of Synchronicity if ever there was one! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronicity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronicity The Hype cycle seems to be a variation of Fisher's Personal Transition Curve http://www.businessballs.com/freepdfmaterials/processoftransitionJF2012.pdf http://www.businessballs.com/freepdfmaterials/processoftrans...