The good, the bad and the downright ugly!
This really is the stuff of science fiction, isn't it? Inanimate objects being able to communicate with their owners and probably their manufacturers too! But who are all these consumers who Niall Murphy insists "want to connect their objects to share information about what they???re doing with those objects, to access more information about the products that they???ve purchased, to access additional services and to share content.????
Yes, it would be useful to be instantly informed if someone was breaking into your house, garage, shed or car - but burglar alarms that dial a set of phone numbers if premises are broken into already exist.
One can understand exactly why Government is investing in IoT research - because secretly embedding chips into inanimate objects that can track your every movement and having the ability to tap into that data would make catching benefit cheats and other criminals child's play, wouldn't it?!!!
And manufacturers/retailers could use information gathered by these chips to prove that an item had only malfunctioned because you had misused it, etc etc., which would save them millions of pounds in guarantee claims made by negligent users.
So whilst I can see the possible benefits of such technology to Governments and businesses, I'm not so sure that those benefits would really help members of the general public all that much?
