WEBVTT - The Internet of Things 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:02.880 Brought to you by the reinvented two thousand twelve camera. 0:00:03.200 --> 0:00:08.960 It's ready. Are you did? In touch with technology? With 0:00:09.039 --> 0:00:17.520 tech stuff from house stuff works dot com. Hello everyone, 0:00:17.560 --> 0:00:20.239 Welcome to tech stuff. My name is Chris Pollett, and 0:00:20.239 --> 0:00:22.720 I'm an editor at house stuff works dot com. Sending 0:00:22.760 --> 0:00:26.040 across from me as usual as senior writer Jonathan Strickline. 0:00:26.120 --> 0:00:28.040 No one would have believed in the last years of 0:00:28.040 --> 0:00:30.800 the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly 0:00:30.920 --> 0:00:33.720 and closely by intelligence greater than man's and yet as 0:00:33.760 --> 0:00:36.360 mortal as his own, that as men busied themselves about 0:00:36.360 --> 0:00:39.680 their various concerns, they were being scrutinized and studied, perhaps 0:00:39.720 --> 0:00:41.960 almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might 0:00:42.000 --> 0:00:44.800 scrutinize the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a 0:00:44.880 --> 0:00:51.360 drop of water. Burma, Why did you say, Burma? Uh? 0:00:51.920 --> 0:00:55.760 What we just did a double quote? Um, I was 0:00:55.840 --> 0:00:58.720 going to I didn't. We were sort of going over 0:00:58.760 --> 0:01:00.280 what we were going to talk about. I'm gonna throw 0:01:00.360 --> 0:01:06.039 Jonathan a very non curvy curveball here. Um. A while ago, 0:01:06.360 --> 0:01:10.880 about maybe almost twenty years ago, is is mid nineties? 0:01:11.440 --> 0:01:17.240 I uh listened to the founder of mind Spring Enterprises, 0:01:17.360 --> 0:01:19.960 which was an Internet service provider here in the United States. 0:01:19.959 --> 0:01:22.320 His name is Charles Brewer, and he was talking about 0:01:23.200 --> 0:01:27.720 how in the future, um, and he wasn't talking distant future, 0:01:27.760 --> 0:01:30.959 you know, he was talking realistically in the next few years. 0:01:31.360 --> 0:01:34.000 He was saying in the mid nineties, uh, that you 0:01:34.040 --> 0:01:37.080 would have stuff in your house. It wouldn't just be 0:01:37.480 --> 0:01:41.440 you connecting to the internet to use email or the web. 0:01:41.800 --> 0:01:45.000 He said, in in the next few years, your stuff 0:01:45.160 --> 0:01:46.959 is going to be connected to the Internet and it's 0:01:46.959 --> 0:01:49.960 going to talk to one another. And you know, he 0:01:49.960 --> 0:01:52.840 was talking about appliances and things, and I thought, well, 0:01:52.880 --> 0:01:56.639 that's kind of weird. I mean, how would you do that. Um. 0:01:56.680 --> 0:01:59.480 Of course, at the time, we were still in a 0:01:59.680 --> 0:02:02.160 very higle up world where you had to have a 0:02:02.200 --> 0:02:04.520 modem attached to your computer or built into your computer 0:02:04.600 --> 0:02:08.120 that dialed over the phone line and would you know, 0:02:08.360 --> 0:02:10.800 connect to the internet. And it was very slow and 0:02:10.800 --> 0:02:14.200 it was very spotty, and you know, it worked pretty well. 0:02:14.240 --> 0:02:17.239 But I thought, well that that would be kind of cool. 0:02:18.040 --> 0:02:20.560 And it seemed uh, you know, of course it's not 0:02:20.680 --> 0:02:24.320 jet jet packs and uh, hoverboards, but it was at 0:02:24.320 --> 0:02:26.280 the same time you know, kind of far off in 0:02:26.320 --> 0:02:29.520 my head because I was thinking, I don't you know, 0:02:29.680 --> 0:02:31.639 I guess people would adopt that. I don't know, it 0:02:31.680 --> 0:02:34.280 seems kind of cool to me. Well, as it turns out, 0:02:34.560 --> 0:02:37.959 we really have moved on to that kind of a model, 0:02:38.000 --> 0:02:41.880 although we're not quite there yet. But um, this is 0:02:41.919 --> 0:02:47.080 what people call the Internet of things. And the reason 0:02:47.160 --> 0:02:50.679 we're talking about this is that actually was contacted by 0:02:50.880 --> 0:02:56.560 a alien intelligence. Yes, but that is not what I 0:02:56.600 --> 0:02:59.400 was going to mention. You know, now they have to 0:02:59.480 --> 0:03:01.560 visit me again, Chris, Thank you so much, because I 0:03:01.639 --> 0:03:05.880 had plans this weekend anyway. No, I was also contacted 0:03:06.000 --> 0:03:11.440 by a tech conference to have a panel discussion about 0:03:11.520 --> 0:03:14.639 this very topic, the Internet of things, and I thought, well, heck, 0:03:14.680 --> 0:03:16.720 I'm I'm already preparing for that. Why don't we make 0:03:16.760 --> 0:03:19.760 that a podcast as well? And here we are, so 0:03:20.120 --> 0:03:23.240 let's talk a little bit about where we are right now. So, um, 0:03:23.480 --> 0:03:26.400 we're still not at a point where everything is talking 0:03:26.400 --> 0:03:28.480 to everything else, and there are a few different reasons 0:03:28.520 --> 0:03:32.079 for that. I think one of the reasons is, uh, 0:03:32.120 --> 0:03:36.200 like Chris was saying, you know, broadband rollout was probably 0:03:36.360 --> 0:03:40.080 a little more gradual than we had anticipated when the 0:03:40.080 --> 0:03:43.360 futurists were first starting to think about the possibilities of 0:03:43.400 --> 0:03:46.440 the Internet of things. But that that's less of a 0:03:46.480 --> 0:03:50.080 problem now for a good percentage of the population of 0:03:50.120 --> 0:03:52.920 the United States, as well as for many other countries. 0:03:53.360 --> 0:03:57.160 Clearly it's still a problem. Not everyone has broadband Internet 0:03:57.200 --> 0:04:01.000 access now. In some cases, the information that these different 0:04:01.200 --> 0:04:04.680 products would be sending back and forth would be very 0:04:04.760 --> 0:04:09.920 small packets of data, So perhaps broadband access isn't as important. 0:04:10.720 --> 0:04:16.480 I remember back as a nostalgic cast, as a slight tangent. 0:04:16.720 --> 0:04:20.320 I remember buying uh. You may remember this to the 0:04:20.320 --> 0:04:24.240 the age of when, um. There were publications like Yahoo 0:04:24.279 --> 0:04:27.760 Internet Life back in the nineties when and there were 0:04:27.760 --> 0:04:31.640 books too with Internet sites on them, and you would go, Okay, 0:04:31.640 --> 0:04:33.120 so I got this Internet thing, what am I going 0:04:33.200 --> 0:04:35.680 to do with it? One of the things I've had 0:04:35.720 --> 0:04:40.080 in a book was this UH drink machine that was 0:04:40.120 --> 0:04:43.000 hooked up to the Internet and you could and this 0:04:43.120 --> 0:04:45.799 was all text. This is not you know, pretty worldwide 0:04:45.800 --> 0:04:48.520 web stuff. This was You would ping the machine and 0:04:48.520 --> 0:04:50.440 it would tell you how many of each drink it 0:04:50.480 --> 0:04:53.839 had sold that day. And I was thinking, so you 0:04:53.880 --> 0:04:57.120 can figure out how many people within the population of 0:04:57.160 --> 0:05:00.599 that region had diabetes. Well was a it was a 0:05:00.640 --> 0:05:03.600 college campus. Now, okay, so all of them. Yeah, so 0:05:03.800 --> 0:05:08.080 we're we're talking about remember when we've talked about the 0:05:08.120 --> 0:05:12.600 early Internet, the places that were wired, we're basically government 0:05:12.600 --> 0:05:17.520 facilities and um educational institutions. So yes, they had broad 0:05:17.560 --> 0:05:21.479 basearch facilities. Exactly, they had broadband people in the the 0:05:21.480 --> 0:05:24.359 computer science department and whirre their drink machine and you 0:05:24.360 --> 0:05:27.840 could pin it, you know, because why not? That's more 0:05:27.920 --> 0:05:29.880 or less the deal. And that was why it was interesting, 0:05:30.560 --> 0:05:34.000 because why not? But yeah, I mean, and and it 0:05:34.080 --> 0:05:37.080 can be useful looking at it today. You could have 0:05:37.120 --> 0:05:39.240 a vendor looking at okay, well we don't need to 0:05:39.240 --> 0:05:43.640 restock this one today, send somebody out there. You can, 0:05:43.760 --> 0:05:46.400 you could consolidate, but back then it was just for fun. 0:05:46.480 --> 0:05:48.360 Right today, it makes a lot of sense. Like if 0:05:48.400 --> 0:05:51.240 you own a vending machine company and you stock those 0:05:51.320 --> 0:05:53.560 vending machines and you are able to look at a 0:05:53.560 --> 0:05:56.520 glance and see where you need to send a delivery 0:05:56.560 --> 0:06:00.320 person in order to restock those machines, then you may 0:06:00.320 --> 0:06:03.360 not need as many delivery people on your staff because 0:06:03.640 --> 0:06:05.440 you don't have to have someone go out and physically 0:06:05.520 --> 0:06:08.600 check each machine, and and if the machines can alert 0:06:08.640 --> 0:06:11.560 you if something's wrong, then you know to send someone 0:06:11.600 --> 0:06:13.680 out to repair it. Um, there are a lot of 0:06:13.720 --> 0:06:15.599 you know, you don't have to wait for a call 0:06:15.720 --> 0:06:19.360 from a client or happen or for your maintenance guy 0:06:19.400 --> 0:06:22.520 to happen upon it on a on a scheduled series 0:06:22.520 --> 0:06:24.400 of rounds. Uh. Yeah, there are a lot of different 0:06:24.400 --> 0:06:27.440 reasons for it. And then we have the consumer side, 0:06:27.440 --> 0:06:31.599 like actual consumer products, not just you know, commercial products, huh, 0:06:32.000 --> 0:06:35.159 and the possibilities that that holds. And they're already products 0:06:35.160 --> 0:06:38.920 out on the market right now that have some form 0:06:38.960 --> 0:06:43.239 of network capability. Um, they don't tend to all work 0:06:43.320 --> 0:06:49.279 together necessarily, like you might have a bunch of independent 0:06:49.400 --> 0:06:54.680 networks within your home network. Right. So for example, uh, 0:06:54.839 --> 0:06:58.320 you could have a you can be purchasing your appliances 0:06:58.440 --> 0:07:01.880 from a single company and you get a washer and 0:07:01.920 --> 0:07:04.719 a dryer, and they have this connectivity ability so that 0:07:04.800 --> 0:07:08.640 the washer and the dryer share information with each other. 0:07:09.680 --> 0:07:11.800 So when you put a load of laundry in the 0:07:11.840 --> 0:07:15.200 washer and you set it to a particular kind of setting, 0:07:15.200 --> 0:07:18.560 like let's say it's permanent press, it sends that information 0:07:18.560 --> 0:07:20.480 to the dryer, so that the dryer already has the 0:07:20.520 --> 0:07:23.840 proper settings ready to go when you transfer the wash 0:07:23.920 --> 0:07:26.320 from the washer dryer, so that way you don't have 0:07:26.360 --> 0:07:30.160 to reset the dryer settings. It's already taken care of. Uh. 0:07:30.200 --> 0:07:33.920 It might also even send you an alert somehow through 0:07:34.640 --> 0:07:37.400 through the internet so that you know when your loads 0:07:37.640 --> 0:07:40.400 laundry are done. So you might get a ping on 0:07:40.440 --> 0:07:44.320 a smartphone or a tablet or your computer, or if 0:07:44.360 --> 0:07:46.280 we're going to look into the future a little bit, 0:07:46.760 --> 0:07:49.960 your television. Because you've got internet connected televisions out there. 0:07:50.480 --> 0:07:52.080 It's only a matter of time before we get to 0:07:52.120 --> 0:07:55.960 a point where these internet connected televisions have a the 0:07:56.000 --> 0:07:59.920 ability to show alerts that are related to other appliance 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:01.920 that are in your house. We're not quite there yet, 0:08:01.960 --> 0:08:05.880 but that's mainly because the approach most companies are taking 0:08:06.520 --> 0:08:12.320 is to create a proprietary communication protocol for their products. Right, 0:08:12.760 --> 0:08:18.240 so Company a's products do not communicate with Company bees products. 0:08:19.040 --> 0:08:22.440 So unless you're buying everything from the same company, then 0:08:22.880 --> 0:08:27.520 the the communication protocols aren't compatible and they don't understand 0:08:27.520 --> 0:08:29.520 each other. They can't communicate. You need to C three 0:08:29.560 --> 0:08:32.959 PO right there in the middle because they can speak 0:08:32.960 --> 0:08:36.760 over six million different languages, including vaporators. One of their 0:08:36.760 --> 0:08:41.320 first jobs was anyway, um, the point being that you know, 0:08:41.400 --> 0:08:44.960 the odds of you finishing that quote or yeah, never 0:08:45.000 --> 0:08:47.040 tell me the odds. Many both died to bring us 0:08:47.080 --> 0:08:51.640 this podcast. So the the the different the different networks 0:08:51.679 --> 0:08:53.560 can't really communicate with one another. So that's kind of 0:08:53.559 --> 0:08:55.680 where we are right now. But we do have lots 0:08:55.679 --> 0:08:58.720 of products out there, including ones like refrigerators that can 0:08:58.760 --> 0:09:02.640 talk to stove and ovens. So you've got again from 0:09:02.640 --> 0:09:05.240 the same company. So you might have a refrigerator that's 0:09:05.240 --> 0:09:08.040 Internet connected and you think, well, why would I want that? Well, 0:09:08.480 --> 0:09:10.800 if you haven't a fridge that connects to the internet 0:09:11.200 --> 0:09:14.640 and it actually is able to keep an inventory of 0:09:14.679 --> 0:09:17.040 the stuff that you put within that fridge, you know, 0:09:17.559 --> 0:09:20.520 if there's some method whether you know you want it 0:09:20.559 --> 0:09:23.680 to be as seamless as possible. Ideally you would have 0:09:23.679 --> 0:09:26.360 a method in there where when you put something in 0:09:26.400 --> 0:09:29.560 the fridge, it automatically detected its presence, knew what it was, 0:09:29.800 --> 0:09:33.000 and logged it so it would know when you put 0:09:33.040 --> 0:09:35.800 it in there, uh, and it would know what it was. 0:09:36.360 --> 0:09:39.240 And even in a real ideal situation. It would know 0:09:39.280 --> 0:09:42.600 when that product expires, so it could tell you, like, hey, 0:09:42.640 --> 0:09:44.240 you've got some milk in the fridge. It's about to 0:09:44.280 --> 0:09:46.679 go bad because it's muscling up to the potato salad, 0:09:46.800 --> 0:09:48.680 So you want to make sure you're gonna go ahead 0:09:48.679 --> 0:09:51.240 and drink that. Um, So just don't walk in on 0:09:51.280 --> 0:09:55.680 the mayonnaise. It's dress boy. We were definitely punchy. We 0:09:55.800 --> 0:09:58.160 recorded an episode that had more bloopers in it than 0:09:58.559 --> 0:10:03.960 the previous previous three years of recording combined. So we're 0:10:04.000 --> 0:10:07.120 all punchy now. But anyway, Yeah, the fridge would be 0:10:07.160 --> 0:10:09.280 able to keep you alert on what you have in 0:10:09.320 --> 0:10:13.360 your fridge. It could even give you recipes for stuff 0:10:13.640 --> 0:10:15.840 that you can make based upon what is in the 0:10:15.880 --> 0:10:18.719 refrigerator right now. So for example, you might think, well, 0:10:18.720 --> 0:10:20.200 why am I gonna have for dinner tonight and you 0:10:20.200 --> 0:10:23.120 could ask You could ask your refrigerator and they could say, well, 0:10:23.120 --> 0:10:25.720 based upon what you've got in the fridge, this is 0:10:25.720 --> 0:10:27.880 the kind of stuff you can make. Or it may 0:10:27.920 --> 0:10:30.640 say you could have this meal. You just need to 0:10:30.640 --> 0:10:34.560 go out and buy this, this, and this, so the 0:10:34.679 --> 0:10:38.880 ingredients are complete and and with the possibility of purchasing 0:10:38.880 --> 0:10:43.000 stuff online. You could even get to a point where 0:10:43.400 --> 0:10:48.439 you you you authorize through your fridge purchases. Well, and 0:10:48.440 --> 0:10:51.760 and that's the the Well, there are two sort of 0:10:51.840 --> 0:10:54.880 things that that occurring to me to sort of funny things. UM. 0:10:54.960 --> 0:10:57.040 One of which is, there's no reason we can't do 0:10:57.080 --> 0:10:59.520 this right now or or really a couple of years ago. 0:10:59.600 --> 0:11:03.400 It's just we haven't. UM. So it's not it's not 0:11:03.480 --> 0:11:07.840 a a technology that we're waiting for it to develop. UM. 0:11:07.840 --> 0:11:10.040 This is all pretty simple stuff really when you get 0:11:10.120 --> 0:11:12.320 right down to it. UM. The other the other promise, 0:11:12.640 --> 0:11:15.960 I mean, this really could be a very convenient thing 0:11:16.000 --> 0:11:19.160 if they go forward with it, because it's the kind 0:11:19.160 --> 0:11:20.920 of thing that you're you're talking about that would make 0:11:21.120 --> 0:11:24.520 life really easy if you have the money to buy 0:11:24.520 --> 0:11:27.080 this kind of stuff and the services available to you. 0:11:27.120 --> 0:11:31.040 So let's say you have UM, your internet connected fridge 0:11:31.080 --> 0:11:34.839 and the services necessary to complete this conversation. So you 0:11:34.920 --> 0:11:36.959 got stuff in the fridge and some of it's starting 0:11:36.960 --> 0:11:39.720 to expire and you've used some of it. So UH, 0:11:40.000 --> 0:11:43.480 there are f I D tags radio frequency identification tags 0:11:43.520 --> 0:11:48.120 on your things. So you have UM milk and UH, 0:11:48.480 --> 0:11:51.319 you have cheese and things like that, and as you 0:11:51.400 --> 0:11:54.200 use it up, the fridge realizes, hey, it's no longer 0:11:54.280 --> 0:11:58.319 in the fridge. Um, so I'm going to Uh, Jonathan 0:11:58.360 --> 0:12:00.679 has already said that he wants more milk as soon 0:12:00.679 --> 0:12:02.600 as he runs out of milk, So I'm gonna place 0:12:02.640 --> 0:12:06.400 an order with the local shopping delivery company and they're 0:12:06.400 --> 0:12:08.960 just gonna bring Jonathan more milk and they're gonna build 0:12:08.960 --> 0:12:11.080 it to his card, so he gets a regular delivery 0:12:11.120 --> 0:12:15.600 of milk because he's out, and uh, the fridge has 0:12:15.679 --> 0:12:19.880 automatically told his local delivery company, Hey, uh, he needs 0:12:20.040 --> 0:12:22.800 milk and celery and other stuff you know that he's 0:12:22.840 --> 0:12:26.439 run out of or he wants to make this this meal. Um. 0:12:26.600 --> 0:12:29.600 So really this could be ultra convenient because you could 0:12:29.640 --> 0:12:31.920 just have stuff show up, go ahead and put it 0:12:31.920 --> 0:12:34.199 in the fridge, and it just runs on a normal 0:12:34.240 --> 0:12:36.000 cycle like that, so you don't have to make shopping 0:12:36.040 --> 0:12:38.360 trips and uh, you don't have to look through the 0:12:38.360 --> 0:12:41.000 fridge to identify what you're gonna eat. But that's all 0:12:41.040 --> 0:12:44.200 sort of a well what if because in the in 0:12:44.240 --> 0:12:49.000 the nineties, when um, these types of delivery services we're 0:12:49.000 --> 0:12:51.920 starting to take off, it was kind of early for 0:12:52.000 --> 0:12:54.680 them to do so and I think it's scared a 0:12:54.679 --> 0:12:56.920 lot of people, which is why you don't they're they're 0:12:56.960 --> 0:12:58.800 sort of hit or miss. They're in some places but 0:12:58.920 --> 0:13:00.640 not another's. They're in a enighble head down the street, 0:13:00.640 --> 0:13:02.920 but they won't deliver to your house. A lot of 0:13:02.920 --> 0:13:06.560 these scases back in the day, they expanded too quickly, 0:13:06.840 --> 0:13:09.360 they got they got so large that they weren't able 0:13:09.400 --> 0:13:14.000 to uh, to handle their own they weren't able to 0:13:14.040 --> 0:13:17.120 administrate the size of the company, and so as a result, 0:13:17.120 --> 0:13:19.800 they eventually collapsed in on themselves. Because it's not a 0:13:19.880 --> 0:13:22.400 cheap business to be in. You know, it's a lot 0:13:22.440 --> 0:13:26.040 of warehouse management, a lot of deliveries. Uh, it's it's 0:13:26.080 --> 0:13:29.400 a tricky business. But also I was going to mention 0:13:29.480 --> 0:13:32.640 that the other possibilities. So we were talking mainly about 0:13:32.720 --> 0:13:35.040 just the fridge interacting with the Internet, but it could 0:13:35.040 --> 0:13:38.040 also interact with the other appliances in your home, for example, 0:13:38.120 --> 0:13:41.640 your stove. So let's say that you have determined that 0:13:41.679 --> 0:13:44.160 you know, the fridge is suggested, Hey, you've got the 0:13:44.240 --> 0:13:48.959 right ingredients here for a pot roast. Uh, And heck, 0:13:49.040 --> 0:13:52.280 you can even have a crock pot that has Internet connectivity, 0:13:52.640 --> 0:13:55.840 and so it starts the it starts the croc pot 0:13:56.080 --> 0:13:58.040 heating up at the right time so that you just 0:13:58.200 --> 0:14:01.000 all you do is dump them the radiance into it 0:14:01.080 --> 0:14:04.640 and you and you walk away, um or you have 0:14:05.120 --> 0:14:09.199 you wanna you wanna end up like baking something, and 0:14:09.280 --> 0:14:11.800 so it ends up sending that information to the oven 0:14:11.840 --> 0:14:14.640 when you're prepared, So that way, the oven starts to 0:14:14.720 --> 0:14:17.080 preheat while you're actually getting your ingredients together, and you 0:14:17.120 --> 0:14:19.640 never had to go and turn anything on yourself. It's 0:14:19.640 --> 0:14:24.080 all controlled because the devices themselves are aware of what 0:14:24.160 --> 0:14:26.880 it is you're trying to do. So this is sort 0:14:26.880 --> 0:14:29.000 of the promise of the Internet of things in general. 0:14:29.040 --> 0:14:31.240 But you know what we're talking about appliance, is that 0:14:31.320 --> 0:14:33.560 the reason why we're talking about that is because those 0:14:33.600 --> 0:14:35.760 are things that exist on the market right now. The 0:14:35.800 --> 0:14:38.840 same sort of thing is true for experiences. If you 0:14:38.920 --> 0:14:43.040 have say a smartphone, a tablet, and maybe even a 0:14:43.120 --> 0:14:46.240 video game console or set top box. Uh, you can 0:14:46.280 --> 0:14:49.600 have these sort of experiences right now within a separate 0:14:49.720 --> 0:14:54.040 kind of network. So let's use Netflix as an example. Alright, 0:14:54.160 --> 0:14:56.400 Let's say have a Netflix account and I have access 0:14:56.440 --> 0:15:00.440 to a Netflix film or television show on my phone 0:15:01.000 --> 0:15:02.960 and I'm watching it, and then I stop, you know, 0:15:03.040 --> 0:15:05.720 I pause in the middle, and then a little bit later, 0:15:05.760 --> 0:15:07.600 I pick up my tablet and I watch a little 0:15:07.600 --> 0:15:09.080 bit more of it. It picks up right where it 0:15:09.160 --> 0:15:11.120 left off, and then I pause. And then when I 0:15:11.160 --> 0:15:13.240 get home, I turn on my TV and my set 0:15:13.280 --> 0:15:15.840 top box that happens to have Netflix capability, and I 0:15:15.880 --> 0:15:18.000 start and it picks up again right where I left off. 0:15:18.400 --> 0:15:21.640 And so this is an experience that continues, and it 0:15:21.680 --> 0:15:24.800 doesn't matter what the context is. It follows me. It's 0:15:24.920 --> 0:15:28.560 context independent, so I don't have to worry about fast 0:15:28.600 --> 0:15:31.160 forwarding to get to the right section, so I can 0:15:31.200 --> 0:15:32.800 pick up where I left off. It's going to just 0:15:32.880 --> 0:15:37.200 do that automatically. This is a really valuable experience to consumers, 0:15:37.560 --> 0:15:40.600 and it's the sort of thing that the Internet of 0:15:40.640 --> 0:15:44.440 Things really promises, is this idea of a seamless experience 0:15:44.480 --> 0:15:47.720 where you go from environment to environment and the environment 0:15:47.760 --> 0:15:50.840 adjusts to you and gives you the experience you want 0:15:51.360 --> 0:15:54.520 um based upon whatever your preferences are, and it may 0:15:54.520 --> 0:15:58.160 be that you have to express those preferences in a 0:15:58.320 --> 0:16:02.160 very um order way, and may in fact, I would 0:16:02.160 --> 0:16:04.880 guess that the early early versions of this technology are 0:16:04.920 --> 0:16:06.880 going to require a lot of input on our part 0:16:06.920 --> 0:16:10.840 to be to work correctly. But future systems will have 0:16:10.880 --> 0:16:13.840 a lot of learning behaviors build into them so that 0:16:14.240 --> 0:16:16.760 based upon your behaviors in the past and the things 0:16:16.800 --> 0:16:20.360 that you've already done, they can anticipate what you want 0:16:20.360 --> 0:16:23.480 in the future and start to set things up so 0:16:23.560 --> 0:16:25.920 that they will be ideal for you before you even 0:16:26.000 --> 0:16:29.520 are necessarily conscious of it. And UH and we're seeing 0:16:29.520 --> 0:16:31.840 some of that too, Like the Nest thermostat is a 0:16:31.840 --> 0:16:35.720 good example. So Nest thermostat is a programmable thermostat that 0:16:36.040 --> 0:16:40.840 has some learning algorithms in it that can, you know, 0:16:41.160 --> 0:16:44.600 based upon the way you adjust the thermostat throughout the day, 0:16:44.800 --> 0:16:48.840 can start to automatically make those adjustments for you. And 0:16:48.920 --> 0:16:52.400 you can also at any time going and manually change 0:16:52.480 --> 0:16:55.640 it either in the house or building yourself, or you 0:16:55.640 --> 0:16:59.400 can even access it over the internet. So there are 0:16:59.440 --> 0:17:03.560 opportunity these there for other appliances that do similar things 0:17:03.600 --> 0:17:07.399 to to do that. And then we've got other UH 0:17:07.680 --> 0:17:11.359 possibilities as well. For example, that you you're watching TV 0:17:11.720 --> 0:17:14.399 and you see a product on television and you know 0:17:14.560 --> 0:17:17.280 you are the ultimate impulse buyer and you think I 0:17:17.359 --> 0:17:20.479 want that. Well, with the Internet of Things, you can 0:17:20.520 --> 0:17:22.080 get to a point where and a lot of companies 0:17:22.080 --> 0:17:23.840 have been trying to do this, figure out a way 0:17:23.880 --> 0:17:25.879 where you can if you see something on the screen 0:17:25.920 --> 0:17:28.679 that you want, you can indicate I want that and 0:17:28.720 --> 0:17:32.720 then go and purchase it, uh, in a very easy, 0:17:32.760 --> 0:17:35.439 seamless way, so that you don't have to open up 0:17:35.440 --> 0:17:39.280 a tablet or or smartphone application or pop open a 0:17:39.320 --> 0:17:43.040 computer in order to say this thing I saw on TV, 0:17:43.280 --> 0:17:47.120 I want that. Make that mine. Um, yeah, my TV 0:17:47.200 --> 0:17:50.440 provider already does that to some extent. Yeah, yeah, there's 0:17:50.480 --> 0:17:52.720 there's some of that built in. It's it's still not 0:17:53.040 --> 0:17:57.160 widespread and it's still not truly seamless, but it's getting better. 0:17:57.240 --> 0:18:00.199 And that's another thing where we expect to see. But 0:18:00.840 --> 0:18:02.840 when we talk about the Internet of Things, you have 0:18:02.920 --> 0:18:06.320 to think bigger than that. Like we're still talking appliances 0:18:06.400 --> 0:18:10.160 and and you know, entertainment centers and stuff, so radio's 0:18:10.200 --> 0:18:12.320 TVs and computers and all that. But but this is 0:18:12.359 --> 0:18:16.680 really about putting computers and sensors and actuators in lots 0:18:16.680 --> 0:18:20.440 of things. Yeah, well, one of them, I would say 0:18:20.440 --> 0:18:24.879 one of the most mature Internet of things environments. Is 0:18:24.880 --> 0:18:28.639 the smart home where you've got uh, you know, your lights, 0:18:28.840 --> 0:18:33.480 your climate control, your garage door, um, your the locks 0:18:33.520 --> 0:18:36.119 on your front door. The sh leg Link system that 0:18:36.200 --> 0:18:39.680 you uh you wrote on that for the for the website. Yeah, 0:18:39.680 --> 0:18:41.840 I'm not. Yeah, there's a you know, there's a a 0:18:41.960 --> 0:18:45.360 schleg Lock article I wrote and it was a few 0:18:45.440 --> 0:18:47.840 years ago about the system because it was something I 0:18:47.840 --> 0:18:51.440 saw at ce S where you could access the lock 0:18:51.840 --> 0:18:54.520 on your front door from the internet and from a 0:18:54.560 --> 0:18:57.400 smartphone you could unlock your door. So let's say that 0:18:57.800 --> 0:19:00.320 you have a repairman showing up at a certain time, 0:19:01.080 --> 0:19:03.359 you could, um, you can unlock the door for that person. 0:19:03.400 --> 0:19:05.399 You can also do things like set up pass codes, 0:19:06.000 --> 0:19:08.480 temporary pass codes. They would only work within a certain 0:19:08.520 --> 0:19:10.639 block of time and outside of that they would no 0:19:10.680 --> 0:19:12.600 longer work. So that way, you could give a pass 0:19:12.640 --> 0:19:15.040 code to someone so that they could, you know, maybe 0:19:15.080 --> 0:19:17.000 walk your dogs or what are your plants or whatever 0:19:17.040 --> 0:19:19.280 it is, and then as soon as as soon as 0:19:19.280 --> 0:19:23.680 that time expand it is over, it'll just automatically lock again. 0:19:24.400 --> 0:19:26.399 So yeah, I mean, that's that's the sort of stuff 0:19:26.840 --> 0:19:28.520 that you can see in a smart home. That and 0:19:28.960 --> 0:19:31.600 alarm systems things like that you can you can watch 0:19:31.760 --> 0:19:34.959 um uh it's easy to if you have the camera setup, 0:19:35.040 --> 0:19:38.159 you can see what's going on at your home. UM. 0:19:38.400 --> 0:19:41.040 If if you're like me and you go, did I 0:19:41.080 --> 0:19:43.399 turn on the alarm? Did I lock the door? You 0:19:43.440 --> 0:19:45.320 can do you can take care of it. You know, 0:19:45.480 --> 0:19:47.320 if you get down the road, you can pull over 0:19:47.359 --> 0:19:49.240 and get on your smartphone and make sure that you 0:19:49.280 --> 0:19:50.600 lock your door and make sure that you turn the 0:19:50.600 --> 0:19:54.040 alarm on. UM and maybe the stove off, you know, 0:19:54.520 --> 0:19:56.720 those kinds of things. And that's something that that is 0:19:56.800 --> 0:20:00.920 already pretty well established in the market. Also, the smart 0:20:00.960 --> 0:20:02.879 meters that they've been putting in a lot of cities 0:20:02.920 --> 0:20:05.480 where um, they don't have to send out a meter 0:20:05.560 --> 0:20:09.000 reader to your to check your electricity. They can check 0:20:09.040 --> 0:20:11.280 that from AFAR. And what what's funny to me is 0:20:11.640 --> 0:20:14.560 that it didn't move quickly enough for Google and Microsoft, 0:20:14.600 --> 0:20:17.200 who have now shut down their services. Well, I think 0:20:17.240 --> 0:20:20.560 that was mostly because the uh, the companies that installed 0:20:20.560 --> 0:20:23.479 the smart meters were not willing to share with Google 0:20:23.560 --> 0:20:27.640 and Microsoft um. And the two companies were just saying, 0:20:27.680 --> 0:20:29.680 you know what, if you guys aren't gonna help us out, 0:20:29.720 --> 0:20:32.040 We're gonna shut these down and we're not gonna mess 0:20:32.080 --> 0:20:35.359 with it anymore. But I think that will eventually come back. 0:20:36.080 --> 0:20:39.919 But cars to are are online in ways that they 0:20:39.960 --> 0:20:42.359 hadn't been before. And and again, if we're talking about 0:20:42.359 --> 0:20:46.000 the future, you can imagine a system, a system where 0:20:46.040 --> 0:20:51.000 cars all have technology UH installed, whether it's retrofitted or 0:20:51.200 --> 0:20:56.120 just off the assembly line where UH there are there 0:20:56.160 --> 0:20:59.360 can be sensors like collision detection sensors and alarm systems. 0:20:59.640 --> 0:21:03.479 There can even be override systems where UH the you know, 0:21:03.600 --> 0:21:06.119 we've seen this with like Google self driving cars. You 0:21:06.119 --> 0:21:09.000 can you can imagine that being incorporated into vehicles off 0:21:09.000 --> 0:21:12.080 the line where UM if you wanted to, you could 0:21:12.119 --> 0:21:15.000 engage it so that the car drives itself and because 0:21:15.080 --> 0:21:20.320 as these other UH sensors, it can navigate through traffic 0:21:20.400 --> 0:21:23.400 without there being a danger of a collision, especially if 0:21:23.440 --> 0:21:26.000 all the other cars are also on the same system. 0:21:26.400 --> 0:21:29.480 Then you've got a computer that can manage everything so 0:21:29.560 --> 0:21:32.080 that you get to where you're going in the most 0:21:32.119 --> 0:21:36.520 efficient manner possible, which would be a huge relief. You know, 0:21:36.760 --> 0:21:40.800