Comments on: The Internet of Things is Nothing New https://logisticsviewpoints.com/2016/02/01/the-internet-of-things-is-nothing-new/ Sun, 07 Feb 2016 11:08:18 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 By: Tim https://logisticsviewpoints.com/2016/02/01/the-internet-of-things-is-nothing-new/#comment-423 Sun, 07 Feb 2016 11:08:18 +0000 https://logisticsvp.wpengine.com/?p=17667#comment-423 if the scope of iot is logistics and process control, then cheaper sensors/actuators will start out as a relatively straightforward extension. However, even for such a small problem domain, there are some obvious future challenges, such as:
– the economics of installing and configuring the sensors/actuators will need to move with the price of the assets
– dynamic models will introduce issues of stability and opportunities for gaming the system for cross organisational data
– existing security assumptions will break, e.g. the more that’s connected, the more juicy the target and the larger the attack surface.

For other IoT domains, such as consumer facing applications (e.g. my fridge, hvac, solar panels and diary cooperate), there are additional issues about:
– integration (at many abstraction levels),
– security (privacy) for aggregated data (used to build and calibrate the models that become the intelligence of iot),
– delegation of authority (e.g. lend the lawn mower to a neighbour, who can allow his son to cut his lawn),
– the scale is much larger and more complex (a dimension of integration is the user, who may consume from many suppliers, but should have one view, so that sensors in the car can be integrated with worn and at-home ‘things’),
– requirements cannot be predicted and will depend on unexpected combinations of Things, so build/test/deploy/measure cycles become rolling processes,
– the system should behave as the untrained user expects,
– the challenges around configuration management, testing is hard and legacy hardware are even more complex than they were when PCs were rolled out into enterprises,
– hardware reliability and consistency of sensors is low,
– validation and testing of integrated sets of Things presents a combinatorial challenge,
– the distributed computing models are challenging to write reliable code for, more so when connectivity changes rapidly,
– emergent behaviour of combinations cannot be predicted, and
– the economics of ‘big data’ for these types of usecase are less trivial: much data just aren’t worth keeping.

]]> By: Dennis Palko-Columbus Ohio https://logisticsviewpoints.com/2016/02/01/the-internet-of-things-is-nothing-new/#comment-422 Sat, 06 Feb 2016 19:07:22 +0000 https://logisticsvp.wpengine.com/?p=17667#comment-422 Back in 1983, I had started a personal movement around having all the parts collaborating, speaking, and sharing. Teaching others that like the human body, systems can/need to change by what your exposing it to ie. bad food reactions. Antibodies come out as called for. Insulin is produced in amounts as needed. How indeed we can continue to fashion what has been given us in our own body, as a sample or nemplate of how to build other successful processes.

And how we have produced outside pieces parts to repair those that get broken or worn out. If it is “Robot-able” or 3D-able, are new terms I have started using more regularly. So maybe we call it “The Body of things”.

Dennis Palko

]]> By: Cimetrics https://logisticsviewpoints.com/2016/02/01/the-internet-of-things-is-nothing-new/#comment-421 Mon, 01 Feb 2016 16:53:19 +0000 https://logisticsvp.wpengine.com/?p=17667#comment-421 Agree. We’ve been doing big data analytics for more than 15 years but just now it’s trendy and is called Internet of things.

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