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My view with IoT is that is true value lies in the monitoring and data collection aspect, and the analysis and prediction that it enables. Consumer IoT doesn't
by NeutronBoy 11y ago
My view with IoT is that is true value lies in the monitoring and data collection aspect, and the analysis and prediction that it enables. Consumer IoT doesn't value from this - consumer IoT is all about having Bluetooth and smartphone apps for your foobar gadget.
Industrial IoT is where the value is - and it's been around for years. Airlines and manufacturers like Boeing and Airbus have streams of data from planes all over the world that allow them to pick trends, predict failures, and take preemptive action. Agriculture use IoT to take real-time measurements across their entire farms without spending hours driving, and get their robotic tractors to go respond with water/fertilizer/pest control. Consumer IoT isn't in a position to get these 'aggregate' benefits.
- tmuir 11y agoI don't think there are any valid use cases for a widely distributed network of any kind of personal item that make sense for consumers. Consumers don't continuously manage large repetitive processes. They don't own items that remain distributed, or are being redistributed on any regular basis. They simply don't have the minimum threshold of Things that would benefit from the Internet.
- wolframhempel 11y agoHow about the various "where are my friends" tracking apps, dating gadgets that light up when a person with shared interests is nearby, body metrics scanner that help health services create a map of say areas with an increased amount of people having hay fever?
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- joezydeco 11y agoMostly true, but I think there can be exceptions such as PressureNet and Waze.
- massysett 11y agoI don't know what qualifies as "large" but procuring food for my family is a tedious and time-consuming task so for me at least it is large and repetitive. I'm not sure how much that can be automated though. The parent post mentioned tracking of airplanes. I wouldn't mind if a company monitored my home heating system or refrigerator and notified me if they were about to fail, as these failures can be expensive and a huge hassle if not anticipated. Also consumers already benefit from alarm systems and cameras they can monitor remotely. Heck, alarm systems have been centrally monitored for decades, just over proprietary networks rather than the Internet.
- pjc50 11y agoI wouldn't mind if a company monitored my home heating system or refrigerator and notified me if they were about to fail, as these failures can be expensive I'd be worried that the pre-emptive maintenance would be far more expensive. You can already get heating system insurance, but I wouldn't trust the IoT system to not over-order maintenance in order to maintain the company's profits. I saw an advert for HP's printer ink subscription service: http://www8.hp.com/uk/en/ads/instant-ink/overview.html http://www8.hp.com/uk/en/ads/instant-ink/overview.html and recoiled in horror. It's already the most expensive liquid most people will buy, and you want to let the printer order it for you? We're back to the door in Ubik that asked the user for a nickel before it would open every time.
- TeMPOraL 11y agoIndeed. I'd be totally for such a system, but as a product, not a service. Some things really should not be managed by third parties - and sadly, our economy is moving towards exactly that.
- massysett 11y ago"It's already the most expensive liquid most people will buy, and you want to let the printer order it for you?" Beats running out of ink at 10pm when I need a printout by tomorrow morning.
- ocdtrekkie 11y agoWell, the aggregate benefits are there... just not for the consumer. The company producing the product, who collects all that data on their customers, gets to pick trends, predict failures, and take preemptive action. ...Often whether their customers like it or not.