WEBVTT - TechStuff Classic: The Internet of Things 0:00:04.120 --> 0:00:07.160 Get in touch with technology with tech Stuff from how 0:00:07.200 --> 0:00:13.680 stuff works dot com. Hey there, and welcome to tech Stuff. 0:00:13.720 --> 0:00:16.720 I'm your host, Jonathan Strickland. I'm an executive producer with 0:00:16.760 --> 0:00:18.759 how Stuff Works, and I heart radio and I love 0:00:18.880 --> 0:00:22.520 all things tech. And today it's time for another classic 0:00:22.560 --> 0:00:26.800 episode of tech Stuff. This episode originally published on May nine, 0:00:26.800 --> 0:00:30.880 two thousand twelve. And boy howdy, this is gonna be 0:00:30.960 --> 0:00:33.680 a doozy of one to listen to. It is the 0:00:33.720 --> 0:00:39.720 Internet of Things episode, so that's changed a lot since 0:00:39.760 --> 0:00:43.879 two thousand twelve. I think it will be quaint to 0:00:44.120 --> 0:00:47.839 hear how Chris and I interpreted the Internet of Things 0:00:48.080 --> 0:00:51.920 seven years ago. Hope you guys enjoy. Let's listen in 0:00:52.320 --> 0:00:56.480 a while ago about maybe almost twenty years ago. Is 0:00:56.600 --> 0:01:02.640 is mid nineties? Yeah, Uh, listened to the founder of 0:01:02.760 --> 0:01:06.240 mind Spring Enterprises, which was an Internet service provider here 0:01:06.280 --> 0:01:08.240 in the United States. His name is Charles Brewer, and 0:01:08.240 --> 0:01:12.800 he was talking about how in the future, um, and 0:01:12.840 --> 0:01:15.600 he wasn't talking distant future, you know, he was talking 0:01:15.760 --> 0:01:18.960 realistically in the next few years. He was saying in 0:01:19.000 --> 0:01:22.880 the mid nineties, uh, that you would have stuff in 0:01:22.880 --> 0:01:25.319 your house. It wouldn't just be you connecting to the 0:01:25.360 --> 0:01:29.720 Internet to use email or the web. He said, in 0:01:29.840 --> 0:01:32.640 the next few years, your stuff is going to be 0:01:32.680 --> 0:01:34.640 connected to the Internet and it's going to talk to 0:01:34.680 --> 0:01:38.240 one another. And you know, he was talking about appliances 0:01:38.280 --> 0:01:40.759 and things, and I thought, well, that's kind of weird. 0:01:41.000 --> 0:01:44.080 I mean, how would you do that. Um, of course, 0:01:44.160 --> 0:01:47.200 at the time, we were still in a very dial 0:01:47.319 --> 0:01:49.840 up world where you had to have a modem attached 0:01:49.880 --> 0:01:52.160 to your computer or built into your computer that dialed 0:01:53.080 --> 0:01:55.760 over the phone line and would you know, connect to 0:01:55.760 --> 0:01:58.000 the Internet. And it was very slow and it was 0:01:58.080 --> 0:02:01.280 very spotty, and you know, it worked pretty well. But 0:02:02.160 --> 0:02:04.200 I thought, well that that would be kind of cool, 0:02:05.000 --> 0:02:07.560 and it seemed, uh, you know, of course it's not 0:02:07.680 --> 0:02:11.320 jet jet packs and uh, hoverboards, but it was at 0:02:11.320 --> 0:02:13.280 the same time, you know, kind of far off in 0:02:13.320 --> 0:02:16.480 my head because I was thinking, I don't you know, 0:02:16.680 --> 0:02:18.680 I guess people would adopt that. I don't know, it 0:02:18.680 --> 0:02:21.280 seems kind of cool to me. Well, as it turns out, 0:02:21.560 --> 0:02:24.959 we really have moved on to that kind of a model, 0:02:24.960 --> 0:02:29.079 although we're not quite there yet. But this is what 0:02:29.120 --> 0:02:34.320 people call the Internet of Things. And the reason we're 0:02:34.320 --> 0:02:38.840 talking about this is that actually was contacted by a 0:02:38.840 --> 0:02:43.639 alien intelligence Yes, but that is not what I was 0:02:43.680 --> 0:02:46.720 going to mention. You know, now they have to visit 0:02:46.760 --> 0:02:48.799 me again, Chris, thank you so much, because I had 0:02:48.800 --> 0:02:54.000 plans this weekend anyway. No, I was also contacted by 0:02:53.400 --> 0:02:58.640 a tech conference to have a panel discussion about this 0:02:58.760 --> 0:03:01.640 very topic, the Internet of Things. I thought, well, heck, 0:03:01.639 --> 0:03:03.720 I'm I'm already preparing for that. Why don't we make 0:03:03.760 --> 0:03:06.720 that a podcast as well? And here we are, so 0:03:07.120 --> 0:03:10.440 let's talk a little bit about where we are right now. So, um, 0:03:10.440 --> 0:03:13.360 we're still not at a point where everything is talking 0:03:13.400 --> 0:03:15.480 to everything else, and there are a few different reasons 0:03:15.480 --> 0:03:18.880 for that. I think one of the reasons is, uh, 0:03:19.080 --> 0:03:23.200 like Chris was saying, you know, broadband rollout was probably 0:03:23.320 --> 0:03:27.040 a little more gradual than we had anticipated when the 0:03:27.080 --> 0:03:30.360 futurists were first starting to think about the possibilities of 0:03:30.400 --> 0:03:33.400 the Internet of things. But that that's less of a 0:03:33.480 --> 0:03:37.080 problem now for a good percentage of the population of 0:03:37.080 --> 0:03:39.920 the United States, as well as for many other countries. 0:03:40.360 --> 0:03:44.160 Clearly it's still a problem. Not everyone has broadband internet 0:03:44.160 --> 0:03:48.000 access now. In some cases, the information that these different 0:03:48.200 --> 0:03:51.680 products would be sending back and forth would be very 0:03:51.760 --> 0:03:56.920 small packets of data, so perhaps broadband access isn't as important. 0:03:57.720 --> 0:04:03.440 I remember because nostalgic cast a slight as a slight tangent. 0:04:03.720 --> 0:04:07.320 I remember buying uh. You may remember this to the 0:04:07.320 --> 0:04:11.240 the age of when, um there were publications like Yahoo 0:04:11.280 --> 0:04:14.720 Internet Life back in the nineties when and there were 0:04:14.760 --> 0:04:18.560 books too with Internet sites on them, and you would go, Okay, 0:04:18.640 --> 0:04:20.120 so I got this Internet thing, what am I going 0:04:20.160 --> 0:04:22.680 to do with it? One of the things I've had 0:04:22.680 --> 0:04:27.080 in a book was this uh drink machine that was 0:04:27.120 --> 0:04:29.960 hooked up to the Internet and you could and this 0:04:30.080 --> 0:04:32.760 was all text. This is not you know, pretty worldwide 0:04:32.760 --> 0:04:35.479 web stuff. This was you would ping the machine and 0:04:35.520 --> 0:04:37.440 it would tell you how many of each drink it 0:04:37.480 --> 0:04:40.800 had sold that day. And I was thinking, so you 0:04:40.839 --> 0:04:44.120 can figure out how many people within the population of 0:04:44.160 --> 0:04:47.480 that region had diabetes? Well it was a it was 0:04:47.520 --> 0:04:50.320 a college campus. Now, okay, so all of them. But yeah, 0:04:50.400 --> 0:04:54.839 so we're we're talking about remember when we've talked about 0:04:54.960 --> 0:04:57.960 the early Internet, the the places that were wired, we're 0:04:57.960 --> 0:05:03.840 basically government facility and um educational institutions. So yes, they 0:05:04.240 --> 0:05:08.360 broad base facilities exactly. They had broadband people in the 0:05:08.360 --> 0:05:10.680 the Computer Science Department and why are their drink machine? 0:05:11.120 --> 0:05:13.200 And you could pin it, you know, because why not? 0:05:14.240 --> 0:05:16.200 That's more or less to deal And that was why 0:05:16.200 --> 0:05:19.880 it was interesting, because why not? But yeah, I mean, 0:05:19.960 --> 0:05:23.480 and and it can be useful looking at it today 0:05:23.680 --> 0:05:25.680 you can have a vendor looking at it. Okay, well 0:05:25.720 --> 0:05:28.400 we don't need to restock this one today, we don't 0:05:28.400 --> 0:05:31.840 have to send out there. Yeah you can, you could consolidate, 0:05:32.000 --> 0:05:34.239 but back then it was just for fun. Right today 0:05:34.279 --> 0:05:35.880 it makes a lot of sense. Like if you own 0:05:35.920 --> 0:05:39.000 a vending machine company and you stock those vending machines 0:05:39.400 --> 0:05:40.960 and you are able to look at a glance and 0:05:41.040 --> 0:05:44.320 see where you need to send a delivery person in 0:05:44.440 --> 0:05:47.640 order to restock those machines, then you may not need 0:05:47.680 --> 0:05:51.000 as many delivery people on your staff because you don't 0:05:51.040 --> 0:05:53.400 have to have someone go out and physically check each machine. 0:05:53.839 --> 0:05:56.760 And and if the machines can alert you if something's wrong, 0:05:57.160 --> 0:05:59.359 then you know to send someone out to repair it. 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:01.279 There are a lot of you know, you don't have 0:06:01.320 --> 0:06:04.800 to wait for a call from a client or happen 0:06:05.360 --> 0:06:07.279 or for your maintenance guy to happen upon it on 0:06:07.360 --> 0:06:10.720 a on a scheduled series of rounds. Uh yeah, there 0:06:10.720 --> 0:06:12.800 are a lot of different reasons for it. And then 0:06:13.120 --> 0:06:16.000 we have the consumer side, like actual consumer products, not 0:06:16.080 --> 0:06:19.960 just you know, commercial products, huh, and the possibilities that 0:06:19.960 --> 0:06:22.839 that holds. And they're already products out on the market 0:06:22.960 --> 0:06:27.680 right now that have some form of network capability. Um, 0:06:28.120 --> 0:06:33.240 they don't tend to all work together necessarily, like you 0:06:33.320 --> 0:06:38.560 might have a bunch of independent networks within your home network. 0:06:39.080 --> 0:06:43.880 Right So for example, you could have a you can 0:06:43.920 --> 0:06:47.760 be purchasing your appliances from a single company and you 0:06:47.800 --> 0:06:50.159 get a washer and a dryer, and they have this 0:06:50.200 --> 0:06:54.279 connectivity ability so that the washer and the dryer share 0:06:54.320 --> 0:06:57.560 information with each other. So when you put a load 0:06:57.600 --> 0:07:01.000 of laundry in the washer and you set it to 0:07:01.040 --> 0:07:03.520 a particular kind of setting, like let's say it's permanent press, 0:07:04.600 --> 0:07:06.320 it sends that information to the dryer, so that the 0:07:06.400 --> 0:07:09.880 dryer already has the proper settings ready to go when 0:07:09.880 --> 0:07:12.720 you transfer the wash from the washer dryer, so that 0:07:12.760 --> 0:07:15.200 way you don't have to reset the dryer settings. It's 0:07:15.240 --> 0:07:18.720 already taken care of. Uh. It might also even send 0:07:18.760 --> 0:07:23.040 you an alert somehow through through the internet, so that 0:07:23.080 --> 0:07:26.000 you know when your loads laundry are done. So you 0:07:26.080 --> 0:07:28.800 might get a ping on a smartphone or a tablet, 0:07:28.920 --> 0:07:32.280 or your computer, or if we're going to look into 0:07:32.320 --> 0:07:35.160 the future a little bit, your television. Because you've got 0:07:35.200 --> 0:07:38.240 internet connected televisions out there. It's only a matter of 0:07:38.280 --> 0:07:40.239 time before we get to a point where these internet 0:07:40.240 --> 0:07:45.440 connected televisions have a the ability to show alerts that 0:07:45.480 --> 0:07:47.720 are related to other appliances that are in your house. 0:07:47.720 --> 0:07:51.160 We're not quite there yet, but that's mainly because the 0:07:51.200 --> 0:07:56.000 approach most companies are taking is to create a proprietary 0:07:56.040 --> 0:08:02.080 communication protocol for their products. Right so Company A's products 0:08:02.400 --> 0:08:06.640 do not communicate with Company bees products. So unless you're 0:08:06.640 --> 0:08:11.240 buying everything from the same company, then the the communication 0:08:11.280 --> 0:08:14.960 protocols aren't compatible and they don't understand each other. They 0:08:14.960 --> 0:08:17.520 can't communicate. You need to C three PO right there 0:08:17.560 --> 0:08:20.600 in the middle, because they can speak over six million 0:08:20.640 --> 0:08:26.320 different languages, including vaporators. One of their first jobs was anyway, um, 0:08:27.080 --> 0:08:29.040 the point being that you know, the odds of you 0:08:29.160 --> 0:08:32.640 finishing that quote or yeah, never tell me the odds 0:08:32.679 --> 0:08:35.240 Many both died to bring us this podcast. So the 0:08:36.360 --> 0:08:39.640 the the different the different networks can't really communicate with 0:08:39.640 --> 0:08:41.600 one another. So that's kind of where we are right now. 0:08:41.679 --> 0:08:43.840 But we do have lots of products out there, including 0:08:43.880 --> 0:08:47.960 ones like refrigerators that can talk to stoves and ovens. 0:08:48.000 --> 0:08:50.880 So you've got again from the same company. So you 0:08:50.960 --> 0:08:53.520 might have a refrigerator that's Internet connected and you think, well, 0:08:53.520 --> 0:08:56.040 why would I want that? Well, if you have a 0:08:56.360 --> 0:08:59.319 fridge that connects to the internet and it actually is 0:08:59.400 --> 0:09:02.360 able to keep an inventory of the stuff that you 0:09:02.440 --> 0:09:05.600 put within that fridge, you know, if there's some method 0:09:06.320 --> 0:09:08.840 whether you know you want it to be as seamless 0:09:08.880 --> 0:09:11.440 as possible, Ideally you would have a method in there 0:09:11.480 --> 0:09:14.440 where when you put something in the fridge, it automatically 0:09:14.480 --> 0:09:17.520 detected its presence, knew what it was, and logged it 0:09:18.480 --> 0:09:21.440 so it would know when you put it in there, uh, 0:09:21.480 --> 0:09:24.440 and it would know what it was, and even in 0:09:24.480 --> 0:09:27.800 a real ideal situation, it would know when that product expires, 0:09:28.240 --> 0:09:30.000 so it could tell you like, hey, you've got some 0:09:30.040 --> 0:09:31.880 milk in the fridge. It's about to go bad because 0:09:31.880 --> 0:09:34.240 it's muscling up to the potato salad, So you want 0:09:34.240 --> 0:09:37.000 to make sure you're gonna go ahead and drink that. Um, 0:09:37.040 --> 0:09:39.560 So just don't walk in on the mayonnaise. It's dressing. 0:09:39.640 --> 0:09:43.400 That's right, boy. We were definitely punchy. We recorded an 0:09:43.400 --> 0:09:46.440 episode that had more bloopers in it than the previous 0:09:46.920 --> 0:09:51.160 the previous three years of recording combined, so we're all 0:09:51.240 --> 0:09:54.320 punchy now. But anyway, Yeah, the fridge would be able 0:09:54.360 --> 0:09:56.880 to keep you alert on what you have in your fridge. 0:09:56.920 --> 0:10:00.920 It could even give you recipes for off that you 0:10:00.960 --> 0:10:03.760 can make based upon what is in the refrigerator right now. 0:10:03.840 --> 0:10:06.040 So for example, you might think, well, why am I 0:10:06.040 --> 0:10:07.760 gonna have for dinner tonight and you could ask You 0:10:07.760 --> 0:10:10.320 could ask your refrigerator and they could say, well, based 0:10:10.360 --> 0:10:12.760 upon what you've got in the fridge, this is the 0:10:12.800 --> 0:10:15.120 kind of stuff you can make. Or it may say 0:10:15.200 --> 0:10:17.720 you could have this meal. You just need to go 0:10:17.760 --> 0:10:22.120 out and buy this, this, and this, so the ingredients 0:10:22.120 --> 0:10:26.600 are complete. And and with the possibility of purchasing stuff online, 0:10:27.360 --> 0:10:31.600 you could even get to a point where you you 0:10:31.600 --> 0:10:35.839 you authorize through your fridge purchases. Well, and and that's 0:10:35.880 --> 0:10:39.120 the the Well, there are two sort of things that 0:10:39.160 --> 0:10:41.839 are occurring to me to sort of funny things. Um. 0:10:41.960 --> 0:10:44.000 One of which is there's no reason we can't do 0:10:44.040 --> 0:10:46.520 this right now or or really a couple of years ago. 0:10:46.640 --> 0:10:50.400 It's just we haven't UM, so it's not it's not 0:10:50.480 --> 0:10:54.800 a technology that we're waiting for it to develop. Um. 0:10:54.840 --> 0:10:57.000 This is all pretty simple stuff really when you get 0:10:57.080 --> 0:10:59.280 right down to it. UM. The other the other promise, 0:10:59.600 --> 0:11:02.920 I mean, this really could be a very convenient thing 0:11:02.960 --> 0:11:06.160 if they go forward with it, because it's the kind 0:11:06.160 --> 0:11:07.920 of thing that you're you're talking about that would make 0:11:08.120 --> 0:11:11.480 life really easy if you have the money to buy 0:11:11.520 --> 0:11:14.040 this kind of stuff and the services available to you. 0:11:14.080 --> 0:11:17.920 So let's say you have, UM, your internet connected fridge 0:11:18.080 --> 0:11:21.800 and the services necessary to complete this conversation. So you 0:11:21.920 --> 0:11:23.920 got stuff in the fridge and some of it's starting 0:11:23.960 --> 0:11:26.960 to expire, and you've used some of it. So uh, 0:11:27.000 --> 0:11:30.440 there are f I D tags radio frequency identification tags 0:11:30.520 --> 0:11:35.120 on your things. So you have UM milk and uh, 0:11:35.480 --> 0:11:38.280 you have cheese and things like that, and as you 0:11:38.400 --> 0:11:41.240 use it up, the fridge realizes, hey, it's no longer 0:11:41.280 --> 0:11:45.320 in the fridge. UM, So I'm going to Uh. Jonathan 0:11:45.320 --> 0:11:47.640 has already said that he wants more milk as soon 0:11:47.679 --> 0:11:49.240 as he runs out of milk. So I'm going to 0:11:49.360 --> 0:11:53.160 place an order with the local shopping delivery company and 0:11:53.160 --> 0:11:55.720 they're just gonna bring Jonathan more milk. And they're gonna 0:11:55.720 --> 0:11:57.400 build it to his card, so he gets a regular 0:11:57.440 --> 0:12:02.400 delivery of milk because he's out and uh, the fridge 0:12:02.400 --> 0:12:06.480 has automatically told his local delivery company, Hey, uh, he 0:12:06.559 --> 0:12:09.600 needs milk and celery and other stuff you know that 0:12:09.640 --> 0:12:11.920 he's run out of or he wants to make this 0:12:11.920 --> 0:12:15.960 this meal. Um. So really this could be ultra convenient 0:12:16.000 --> 0:12:18.600 because you could just have stuff show up, go ahead 0:12:18.600 --> 0:12:20.679 and put it in the fridge, and it just runs 0:12:20.679 --> 0:12:22.320 on a normal cycle like that, so you don't have 0:12:22.360 --> 0:12:24.920 to make shopping trips and uh, you don't have to 0:12:24.920 --> 0:12:27.280 look through the fridge to identify what you're gonna eat. 0:12:27.520 --> 0:12:30.600 But that's all sort of well what if, because in 0:12:30.679 --> 0:12:34.480 the in the nineties, when um, these types of delivery 0:12:34.520 --> 0:12:38.360 services we're starting to take off, it was kind of 0:12:38.360 --> 0:12:41.240 early for them to do so. And I think it's 0:12:41.240 --> 0:12:43.160 scared a lot of people, which is why you don't 0:12:43.320 --> 0:12:45.240 they're they're sort of hit or missed. They're in some 0:12:45.320 --> 0:12:47.600 places but not another's. They're in the neighborhood down the street, 0:12:47.600 --> 0:12:52.040 but they won't deliver to your house. Back in the day, 0:12:52.080 --> 0:12:55.480 they expanded too quickly. They got they got so large 0:12:55.520 --> 0:12:59.400 that they weren't able to uh to handle their own 0:12:59.800 --> 0:13:02.480 the they weren't able to administrate the size of the 0:13:02.520 --> 0:13:05.320 company and so as a result, they eventually collapsed in 0:13:05.480 --> 0:13:08.000 on themselves. Because it's not a cheap business to be in. 0:13:08.600 --> 0:13:10.560 You know, it's a lot of warehouse management, a lot 0:13:10.559 --> 0:13:15.240 of deliveries. Uh, it's it's a tricky business. But also 0:13:15.559 --> 0:13:18.320 I was going to mention that the other possibilities, So 0:13:18.320 --> 0:13:20.640 we would talk you mainly about just the fridge interacting 0:13:20.640 --> 0:13:22.760 with the Internet, but it could also interact with the 0:13:22.800 --> 0:13:26.720 other appliances in your home, for example, your stove. So 0:13:27.080 --> 0:13:28.920 let's say that you have determined that you know, the 0:13:28.920 --> 0:13:32.160 fridge is suggested, Hey you've got the right ingredients here 0:13:32.160 --> 0:13:36.440 for a pot roast. Uh, and heck, you can even 0:13:36.440 --> 0:13:40.120 have a crock pot that has Internet connectivity. And so 0:13:40.720 --> 0:13:43.560 it starts the it starts the croc pot heating up 0:13:43.600 --> 0:13:45.439 at the right time so that you just all you 0:13:45.480 --> 0:13:48.320 do is dump them the ingredients into it and you 0:13:48.440 --> 0:13:52.440 and you walk away. Um, or you have you wanna 0:13:52.600 --> 0:13:56.680 you wanna end up like baking something, and so it 0:13:56.800 --> 0:13:59.600 ends up sending that information to the oven when you're prepared, 0:14:00.120 --> 0:14:02.559 so that way the oven starts to preheat while you're 0:14:02.559 --> 0:14:04.559 actually getting your ingredients together, and you never had to 0:14:04.600 --> 0:14:08.120 go and turn anything on yourself. It's all controlled because 0:14:08.840 --> 0:14:11.559 the devices themselves are aware of what it is you're 0:14:11.559 --> 0:14:14.439 trying to do. So this is sort of the promise 0:14:14.520 --> 0:14:16.800 of the Internet of things in general. But you know 0:14:16.840 --> 0:14:18.800 what we're talking about appliance is that the reason why 0:14:18.840 --> 0:14:21.040 we're talking about that is because those are things that 0:14:21.080 --> 0:14:23.240 exist on the market right now. The same sort of 0:14:23.280 --> 0:14:27.360 thing is true for experiences. If you have, say a smartphone, 0:14:27.400 --> 0:14:31.240 a tablet, and maybe even a video game console or 0:14:31.280 --> 0:14:34.360 set top box. Uh, you can have these sort of 0:14:34.400 --> 0:14:38.160 experiences right now within a separate kind of network. So 0:14:38.320 --> 0:14:41.480 let's use Netflix as an example. All right, Let's say 0:14:41.480 --> 0:14:43.600 have a Netflix account, and I have access to a 0:14:43.600 --> 0:14:48.240 Netflix film or television show on my smartphone, and I'm 0:14:48.280 --> 0:14:50.440 watching it, and then I stop, you know, I pause 0:14:50.480 --> 0:14:52.840 in the middle, and then a little bit later, I 0:14:52.840 --> 0:14:54.720 pick up my tablet and I watch a little bit 0:14:54.720 --> 0:14:56.640 more of it. It picks up right where it left off, 0:14:56.800 --> 0:14:58.600 and then I pause. And then when I get home, 0:14:58.800 --> 0:15:00.800 I turn on my TV and set top box that 0:15:00.800 --> 0:15:03.320 happens to have Netflix capability, and I start and it 0:15:03.320 --> 0:15:05.600 picks up again. Right where I left off, and so 0:15:05.640 --> 0:15:09.240 this is an experience that continues and it doesn't matter 0:15:09.280 --> 0:15:13.200 what the context is. It follows me. It's context independent, 0:15:13.600 --> 0:15:16.240 so I don't have to worry about fast forwarding to 0:15:16.400 --> 0:15:18.560 get to the right section, so I can pick up 0:15:18.560 --> 0:15:20.760 where I left off. It's going to just do that automatically. 0:15:21.280 --> 0:15:24.840 This is a really valuable experience to consumers, and it's 0:15:24.840 --> 0:15:28.680 the sort of thing that the Internet of Things really promises, 0:15:28.760 --> 0:15:32.360 is this idea of a seamless experience where you go 0:15:32.480 --> 0:15:35.880 from environment to environment and the environment adjusts to you 0:15:36.240 --> 0:15:39.400 and gives you the experience you want um based upon 0:15:39.560 --> 0:15:42.000 whatever your preferences are, and it may be that you 0:15:42.120 --> 0:15:47.400 have to express those preferences in a very um ordered way. 0:15:47.920 --> 0:15:50.360 And in fact, I would guess that the early early 0:15:50.520 --> 0:15:52.840 versions of this technology are going to require a lot 0:15:52.880 --> 0:15:55.320 of input on our part to be to work correctly. 0:15:55.960 --> 0:15:59.120 But future systems will have a lot of learning behaviors 0:15:59.120 --> 0:16:02.720 built into them so that based upon your behaviors in 0:16:02.760 --> 0:16:05.600 the past and the things that you've already done, they 0:16:05.640 --> 0:16:08.760 can anticipate what you want in the future and start 0:16:08.800 --> 0:16:11.640 to set things up so that they will be ideal 0:16:11.680 --> 0:16:14.600 for you before you even are necessarily conscious of it 0:16:15.280 --> 0:16:17.320 and UH and we're seeing some of that too, Like 0:16:17.360 --> 0:16:20.440 the Nest thermostat is a good example. So Nest thermostat 0:16:20.560 --> 0:16:25.480 is a programmable thermostat that has some learning algorithms in 0:16:25.520 --> 0:16:29.280 it that can, you know, based upon the way you 0:16:29.320 --> 0:16:33.440 adjust the thermostat throughout the day, can start to automatically 0:16:33.560 --> 0:16:37.480 make those adjustments for you. And you can also at 0:16:37.480 --> 0:16:40.720 any time going and manually change it, either in the 0:16:40.760 --> 0:16:43.480 house or building yourself, or you can even access it 0:16:43.560 --> 0:16:48.320 over the internet. So there are opportunities there for other 0:16:48.360 --> 0:16:51.640 appliances that do similar things to to do that. And 0:16:51.680 --> 0:16:56.880 then we've got other possibilities as well. For example, that 0:16:56.920 --> 0:16:59.720 you you're watching TV and you see a product on 0:16:59.760 --> 0:17:02.920 tell Vision and you know you are the ultimate impulse 0:17:02.920 --> 0:17:06.280 buyer and you think, I want that. Well, with the 0:17:06.320 --> 0:17:08.240 Internet of Things, you can get to a point where 0:17:08.240 --> 0:17:10.000 and a lot of companies have been trying to do this, 0:17:10.160 --> 0:17:12.000 figure out a way where you can if you see 0:17:12.040 --> 0:17:14.600 something on the screen that you want, you can indicate 0:17:14.680 --> 0:17:17.760 I want that and then go and purchase it, UH 0:17:17.920 --> 0:17:21.200 in a very easy, seamless way so that you don't 0:17:21.240 --> 0:17:24.919 have to open up a tablet or or smartphone application 0:17:25.160 --> 0:17:28.760 or pop open a computer in order to say this 0:17:28.840 --> 0:17:33.320 thing I saw on TV, I want that make that mine. Um, 0:17:33.760 --> 0:17:37.160 my TV provider already does that to some extent. Yeah, yeah, 0:17:37.200 --> 0:17:39.480 there's there's some of that built in. It's it's still 0:17:39.560 --> 0:17:43.480 not widespread and it's still not truly seamless, but it's 0:17:43.480 --> 0:17:46.720 getting better. And that's another thing where we expect to see. 0:17:47.040 --> 0:17:49.679 But when we talk about the Internet of things, you 0:17:49.720 --> 0:17:52.439 have to think bigger than that. Like we're still talking 0:17:52.520 --> 0:17:56.560 appliances and and you know, entertainment centers and stuff, so 0:17:56.720 --> 0:17:59.160 radio's TVs and computers and all that. But but this 0:17:59.200 --> 0:18:02.800 is really about putting computers and sensors and actuators in 0:18:03.240 --> 0:18:05.920 lots of things. We have a lot more to say 0:18:05.960 --> 0:18:08.480 about the Internet of things, but first let's take a 0:18:08.560 --> 0:18:18.600 quick break to thank our sponsor. Well, one of the 0:18:19.480 --> 0:18:22.719 I would say one of the most mature Internet of 0:18:22.760 --> 0:18:27.320 things environments is the smart home, where you've got uh, 0:18:27.359 --> 0:18:32.280 you know, your lights, your climate control, your garage door, um, 0:18:32.280 --> 0:18:35.120 your the locks on your front door. Sh leg link 0:18:35.200 --> 0:18:37.919 system that you uh you wrote on that for the 0:18:38.320 --> 0:18:40.960 for the website. I'm not there's a you know, there's 0:18:41.040 --> 0:18:44.639 a a schleg lock article I wrote, and it was 0:18:44.680 --> 0:18:47.080 a few years ago about a system because it was 0:18:47.119 --> 0:18:49.159 something I saw at c e S where you could 0:18:49.800 --> 0:18:53.240 access the lock on your front door from the internet 0:18:53.359 --> 0:18:56.159 and from a smartphone, you could unlock your door. So 0:18:56.359 --> 0:18:59.080 let's say that you have a repairman showing up at 0:18:59.080 --> 0:19:02.119 a certain time, Uh, you could, uh, you can unlock 0:19:02.160 --> 0:19:03.720 the door for that person. You can also do things 0:19:03.720 --> 0:19:06.880 like set up pass codes, temporary pass codes that would 0:19:06.920 --> 0:19:09.480 only work within a certain block of time and outside 0:19:09.520 --> 0:19:11.280 of that they would no longer work. So that way, 0:19:11.320 --> 0:19:13.679 you could give a pass code to someone so that 0:19:13.680 --> 0:19:15.480 they could, you know, maybe walk your dogs or what 0:19:15.560 --> 0:19:17.640 are your plants or whatever it is, and then as 0:19:17.640 --> 0:19:21.160 soon as as soon as that time expand, it is over, 0:19:21.600 --> 0:19:25.000 it'll just automatically lock again. So yeah, I mean that's 0:19:25.040 --> 0:19:27.119 that's the sort of stuff that you can see in 0:19:27.119 --> 0:19:30.160 a smart home. That and alarm systems things like that 0:19:30.200 --> 0:19:33.119 you can you can watch um uh it's easy to 0:19:33.280 --> 0:19:35.360 if you have the camera setup, you can see what's 0:19:35.400 --> 0:19:38.719 going on at your home. Um. If if you're like 0:19:38.840 --> 0:19:41.359 me and you go, did I turn on the alarm? 0:19:41.400 --> 0:19:43.760 Did I lock the door? You can do you can 0:19:43.800 --> 0:19:45.760 take care of it. You know, if you get down 0:19:45.840 --> 0:19:47.719 the road, you can pull over and get on your 0:19:47.720 --> 0:19:49.399 smartphone and make sure that you lock your door and 0:19:49.400 --> 0:19:51.560 make sure that you turn the alarm on, UM and 0:19:51.640 --> 0:19:54.840 maybe the stove off, you know, those kinds of things. 0:19:54.880 --> 0:19:58.360 And that's something that that is already pretty well established 0:19:58.400 --> 0:20:01.120 in the market. Also, U the smart meters that they've 0:20:01.160 --> 0:20:03.560 been putting in a lot of cities where um, they 0:20:03.600 --> 0:20:05.800 don't have to send out a meter reader to your 0:20:05.920 --> 0:20:09.240 to check your electricity. They can check that from AFAR. 0:20:09.400 --> 0:20:12.000 And what what's funny to me is that it didn't 0:20:12.000 --> 0:20:14.640 move quickly enough for Google and Microsoft, who have now 0:20:14.680 --> 0:20:17.399 shut down their services. Well, I think that was mostly 0:20:17.400 --> 0:20:20.800 because the uh, the companies that installed the smart meters 0:20:20.800 --> 0:20:25.240 were not willing to share with Google and Microsoft um, 0:20:25.320 --> 0:20:27.480 and the two companies were just saying, you know what, 0:20:27.520 --> 0:20:29.920 if you guys aren't gonna help us out, we're gonna 0:20:29.920 --> 0:20:31.680 shot these down and we're not going to mess with 0:20:31.720 --> 0:20:34.920 it anymore. But I think that will eventually come back. 0:20:35.640 --> 0:20:39.479 But cars too, are our online in ways that they 0:20:39.520 --> 0:20:41.920 hadn't been before. And and again, if we're talking about 0:20:41.920 --> 0:20:45.560 the future, you can imagine a system, a system where 0:20:45.600 --> 0:20:50.560 cars all have technology UH installed, whether it's retrofitted or 0:20:50.760 --> 0:20:55.840 just off the assembly line where there are there can 0:20:55.880 --> 0:20:59.360 be sensors like collision detection sensors and alarm systems. There 0:20:59.359 --> 0:21:03.040 can even be override systems where UH the you know, 0:21:03.160 --> 0:21:05.679 we've seen this with like Google self driving cars. You 0:21:05.680 --> 0:21:08.560 can you can imagine that being incorporated into vehicles off 0:21:08.560 --> 0:21:11.640 the line where UM if you wanted to, you could 0:21:11.680 --> 0:21:14.560 engage it so that the car drives itself and because 0:21:14.640 --> 0:21:19.880 as these other UH sensors, it can navigate through traffic 0:21:19.960 --> 0:21:22.960 without there being a danger of a collision, especially if 0:21:23.000 --> 0:21:25.560 all the other cars are also on the same system. 0:21:25.960 --> 0:21:29.040 Then you've got a computer that can manage everything so 0:21:29.119 --> 0:21:31.640 that you get to where you're going in the most 0:21:31.680 --> 0:21:36.080 efficient manner possible, which would be a huge relief. You know, 0:21:36.320 --> 0:21:40.359 theoretically you could avoid traffic jams because a lot of 0:21:40.359 --> 0:21:44.640 traffic jams depend upon human behavior and not necessarily something 0:21:45.320 --> 0:21:48.920