Translator: Xue Chen Reviewer: Darina Stoyanova So, the Internet of Things Who loves the Internet? If you didn't put your hand up, get out. If you haven't used Google at work to do your job better, then you are wrong.
And who loves things? The chairs you are sitting in the glasses you are wearing, friends you hold pretty much everyone, some weird people down here. Well, the Internet of Things there's a lot to it.
I'm gonna try to breeze through this in 7 minutes But let's jump into it. Let's jump into what Internet of Things, IoT really is. Now in the digital world, we can make everything talk to each other.
We can make our phones talk to each other We can make Facebook talk to each other And in the physical world, not so much. This is where our lives and technological development kind of stopped. But now, we are able to build a network so, multiple of physical objects your chair, your table, your lounge those tim tams in the fridge they are connected to the Internet.
If you don't know what the Internet is you same weird people who said no, get out It allows you to send so you can create and transmit receive, so that you can receive and interpret and exchange data exchange data, you can have conversations with things around you so IoT will allow multiple physical objects, like the tim tams to be connected to the Internet They can send just how good tim tams are to other tim tams and to you. And they can receive just how many people want those damn tim tams. And they can have a conversation with other items in your fridge.
So we are entering a very exciting time where we will have chairs, couches pretty much everything that's in your home connected to the Internet or at least have conversations with things around you. Now, still very ominous right? even though we have a definition that I may or may not have gotten off urban dictionary But, let's break it into four sections.
Hardware Little bits and pieces like this. The hardware is what actually allows us to connect digital items to physical objects. So I can put this on a door and it will tell me when the door opens This is a dollar by the way, a dollar.
So we have hardware that senses things. We have data. Data actually starts to make sense of what all this is.
It's things we push around all the time everyday we don't really think about. But for example, this piece of hardware here creates ECG data. It tells me how fast my heart is beating.
Let's actually check that out right now. Yeah, okay, 110, great. Essentially this has also changed over the last 10 years.
We used to push data around in heavy, kinda standardized format. We're seeing a lot of different ways of doing this now We see JSON strings. Let's see you interpret that, Marky.
J-S-O-N, yeah And now data is getting leaner. We can say more with less. And data is becoming the universal language.
Not English, not Chinese, not Auslan But the universal language of things. And software What we do once we have that communication once we have that piece of information? The software is what interprets it, it's what controls it.
It's what analyzes it and allow it to do stuff. It's Facebook. It's your Instagram.
It's the things that actually take pieces of data from these pieces of hardware and makes it do stuff that is valuable to you. And the last step without all of this stuff, if it wasn't connected, it wouldn't mean anything And connectivity of the last 10 years we've seen go from cellular phones that were size of bricks, through to Wi-Fi to ethernet, to 2G GSM 4G. All these different acronyms that are awesome But essentially it has gotten cheaper It has gotten faster.
This is an RF transmitter. This is a dollar fifty. I can attach these to one of these sensors with this little bit in the middle and I can start beaming information to other things around me with no ongoing cost, with electricity cost as much as one cent a month for one of these.
And I can start to have a conversation in a language that is not English or Auslan, but in data. And once we have all of these things connected and get it up to the cloud like these things here, we can actually start to use them. The thing on the top left I call them things cause they are on the Internet The thing on the top left is a bluetooth beacon It is used for marking things.
These are four dollars. I can place it on any object and use it as a proximity marker as well as an identifier. I can put this in my fridge so that I know when mom went inside and ate 16 of these tim tams.
And for four dollars I can also put it outside and know when my girlfriend gets home that she got safely through the valley and into my apartment On the bottom left is an air quality censor This is on the top end of the costly electronics But that's a 6-dollar censor that allows me to tell if there is ammonia Is there carbon dioxide or harmful gases in the environment around me? And in the middle, a galvanic skin response system This allows me to measure the conductivity in my skin down to the micro level where I can know before my brain does that I'm stressed that I got adrenaline pumping or that I'm on stage. And on the right we have consumerized version of these up to the 10 dollar mark that allow anyone in their homes to start building the systems I'm talking about out of the box, using softwares that are readily available.
And it's all in the wonderful cloud. We can do it anywhere. We can do it for ultra low cost.
We don't have to worry about maintaining it and you don't have to be an expert to use it. Now you may or may not know that this already exists in your home and if it doesn't, you should already have it. These systems allow us to walk up to our front door and not use a key.
But purely to actually measure "Is Jordan there? Has he walked up in a particular way Is it him? and unlock the door for me.
I can turn my TV on to channel 7 in the Simpsons just as I get home and I like to in the afternoon. I can actually measure how many people are in my room. What's the humidity what's the temperature outside and automatically set my air conditioning.
I can talk to an unit and turn my Philips hue lights at the right time to the right color for my mood and if I leave them on when I leave it will take care of them for me So what does this all mean? Why this big problem, right? Why does it present so many different opportunities?
The thing is that now we've gotten to a point where this is such an available and realistic opportunity that it's going to explode. And it's only gonna happen in 10 years. Who loves their job at the moment?
Ah, a few of you are like, no. Who thinks I'll be in the same job for the next five years? Oh, you are all wrong!
Who thinks I'll be in the same job for ten years? Even worse. We are entering in a stage where everything will be connected.
And the impact of IoT will be $11 trillion a year by 2025 across factories, cities, human identification and interaction health care, work sites, and general safety offices and vehicles. And why now? Because of the ultra low cost of this hardware, the high availability of resources, the low level of difficulty to compile them and put them together and highly digital and connected universe that is driving us toward not just connecting our digital space in our digital lives, but our physical space and the things we actually deal with everyday.
This is a vertical farm The only human interaction needed is placing the seeds into the soil. Watering, trimming, harvesting is all taking care of by IoT systems. And Barcelona Smart City over the last ten years has made one of the most IoT integrated smart city in the world By placing sensors that tell people where parking spots are They've increased revenues for parking over $50 million dollars per year.
They've decreased their energy cost by $37 Million a year purely by having IoT in lights to tell them when they actually need to turn on and when people are there to use them. Their Smart Gardens saved them $58 Million a year in water usage just by watering in the right places at the right time. And now think about your home.
All those things I mentioned in your house I already do in mine. It's here. It's not a futuristic object or an idea.
It's a reality. So as we welcome the whole universe to the next era of connectivity I ask once all our tasks are automated when the things we currently do everyday the jobs the half of you love and half of you hate are actually replaced by IoT devices artificial intelligence, interconnected systems What do we do? We come back to creativity, innovation, and humanity.
We cannot replace our need to create new things to improve them and to build interpersonal relationships. We invent, we build, we optimise, we operate, we innovate. And we remember to enjoy sometimes before we invent again.
IoT is the beginning of a new era. Thank you!
