Smart Bricks, Or A Dumb Idea?
from the smart-ass-houses dept
Apparently, in the world of tiny wireless sensors, the current trend is to put the sensors into everything, and preface each thing with "smart". So, we've got smart dust, smart bricks, smart toilets - all of which can be combined into one big smart home. Of course, it also sounds like there's a pretty strong debate over whether any of this "smart" stuff is useful at all. Some are worried that it's a case where people are simply building products because they can - and not because there's anything really useful that people can do with it. Near the end of the article someone wonders what happens when you spend plenty of extra money to build your new "smart home" - and a year later you realize your "smart home" is completely obsolete?
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automation overkill
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Only if the data is captured.
The 'smart bricks' are useful if the they:
1) Outlast the building useful life (Lets see Migration of silicon dopeants should render chips dead in 30 years. Bricks have a longer useful timespan)
2) Someone collects and collates the data.
Without 2, 1 doesn't matter. If you think the economic lifespan of a building is less than 30-50 years, why build with brick in the 1st place? Wouldn't you like to get data up until the building itself is destroyed?
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More information about smart bricks
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Old hat
I have read a tale of a New York mob boss who got shot in the butt at a night club; at his hospital bed, a DEA agent showed up and told him that surgeons implanted a listening device in his butt. The mob boss lost his nerve and confessed everything. (The DEA agent was lying.)
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