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"But today it connects networks of vastly different sorts: computers, yes, but also financial networks, distribution networks, road networks, water networks, po
by rsync 9y ago
"But today it connects networks of vastly different sorts: computers, yes, but also financial networks, distribution networks, road networks, water networks, power networks, communication networks, social networks."
This is, I hope, incorrect.
Power, water, road, etc. should not be Internet connected and in many cases should not be networked at all.
Homeowners doing cute things with arduino and their lawn sprinklers (and learning good lessons about simplicity and fragility) are one thing. It's quite another to bear the responsibility for critical infrastructure.
I hope the adults in the room have the wisdom and experience to eschew these kind of "improvements".
- rocqua 9y agoSensor networks are great boons to any infrastructure. It allows for much quicker reactions and much better tuning. However, this network doesn't need to be public. I can see how you'd pick the internet as a base-layer for this network, which would be a bad idea. The alternative is building an entire separate network, which seems almost un doable.
- ldp01 9y agoFor some industries it makes sense. Rail and power networks use their own physical infrastructure as they have specific latency and reliability requirements for protection and signalling systems and it's convenient to just build their own comms networks alongside their other infrastructure.
- rocqua 9y agoRail and power also already have physical infrastructure and property along which they can setup networks.