{"id":1530,"date":"2013-11-21T09:21:03","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T14:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.worldline.ca\/blog\/?p=1530"},"modified":"2023-11-27T20:29:32","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T01:29:32","slug":"the-internet-of-things-the-future-is-going-to-be-very-differentcoolscary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldline.ca\/blog\/the-internet-of-things-the-future-is-going-to-be-very-differentcoolscary\/","title":{"rendered":"The Internet of Things: The Future is Going to be Very Different\/Cool\/Scary"},"content":{"rendered":"
How\u2019s your heart today? How about your car\u2019s fuel efficiency? Are the eggs you\u2019re planning to have for breakfast on the verge of turning nasty?<\/header>\n
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Soon, very soon, all that information will be instantly available\u2026 for better or for worse.<\/p>\n

Fibernetics<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0is in the data delivery business. Through\u00a0NEWT<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Worldline<\/strong><\/a>, we\u2019re providing Canadians across the country access to Internet with Unlimited high speed packages<\/strong><\/a> at sensible pricing.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s us today.<\/p>\n

What we are\u00a0also<\/em>\u00a0doing today is planning for the future. We have to be working on what will we be doing five, ten, twenty years from now.<\/p>\n

And almost certainly what we will be doing is called the\u00a0Internet of Things<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Coined in 2009,\u00a0the Internet of Things (IoT) is a concept where essentially everything, your car, your toaster, you, me, your dog, are provided with\u00a0unique identifiers\u00a0and the ability to automatically transfer data over a network without requiring human-to-human or human-to-computer interaction.<\/p>\n

A\u00a0thing<\/i>, in IoT can be a person with a heart monitor implant, a farm animal with a\u00a0biochip transponder, a car that has built-in\u00a0sensors\u00a0to alert the driver when tire pressure is low \u2014 or any other natural or man-made object that can be assigned an\u00a0IP address\u00a0and provided with the ability to transfer data over a network.\u00a0So far, the IoT\u00a0has been most closely associated with machine-to-machine (M2M<\/a>) communication in manufacturing and power, oil and gas utilities. Products built with M2M communication capabilities are often referred to as being\u00a0smart.<\/i><\/p>\n

As time moves on, plenty more \u201cthings\u201d are going to get a whole lot smarter and the implications of this kind of universal connectivity are both super cool \u2013 and also super scary.<\/p>\n

First the Cool<\/h2>\n

Your smart phone will soon be a\u00a0conduit\u00a0of information about\u00a0everything\u00a0about you. From your own body, your kids and pets, to\u00a0your car and your house, there will be practically nothing you can\u2019t find out through a mobile app.<\/p>\n

Just this week, GE announced their partnership with an IoT start-up who is beginning with monitoring, of all things,\u00a0the eggs in your fridge<\/a><\/strong>. This device sits in your fridge and records the age and number of your eggs and sends a reminder when it\u2019s time to shop.<\/p>\n

Quirky, but extrapolate that onto everything you purchase, use or basically come into contact with.<\/p>\n

Projections state IoT will involve approximately 212 billion things by the end of 2020, including intelligent systems designed to keep track of their own status and report it, as well as the continuing digitization of pretty much everything that is a thing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Here\u2019s the Scary Bit<\/h2>\n

As more and more personal and household devices are connecting to the internet, from your television to your car navigation systems to your light switches, more and more can possibly be accessed without your permission or your knowledge.<\/p>\n

You thought the NSA scandal, where they tracked who you called on your cell phone, was intrusive? Imagine that kind of scrutiny multiplied to the nth degree with an IoT. Former CIA Director\u00a0David Petraeus<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0said the\u00a0intelligence\u00a0community cannot\u00a0wait<\/em>\u00a0to spy on you through them.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year Petraeus mused about it\u2019s emergence \u00a0and he described it thusly:<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Transformational\u2019 is an overused word, but I do believe it properly applies to these technologies, particularly to their effect on clandestine tradecraft.\u201d<\/p>\n

All those new online devices are a treasure trove of data if you\u2019re a \u201cperson of interest\u201d to the spy community. Once upon a time, spies had to place a bug in your chandelier to hear your conversation. With the rise of the\u00a0\u201csmart home,\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0you\u2019d be sending tagged, geolocated data that a spy agency can intercept in real time when you use\u00a0the lighting app on your phone<\/strong>\u00a0to adjust your living room\u2019s ambiance.<\/p>\n

\u201cItems of interest will be located, identified, monitored, and remotely controlled through technologies such as radio-frequency identification, sensor networks, tiny embedded servers, and energy harvesters \u2014 all connected to the next-generation internet using abundant, low-cost, and high-power computing,\u201d Petraeus said, \u201cthe latter now going to cloud computing, in many areas greater and greater supercomputing, and, ultimately, heading to quantum computing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Petraeus allowed that these household spy devices \u201cchange our notions of secrecy\u201d and prompt a rethink of \u201cour notions of identity and secrecy.\u201d<\/p>\n

No kidding.<\/p>\n

All of this will be sorted out over time. For us, being in the data business is a great thing because more and \u00a0more we are all going to become increasingly dependent on reliable, robust and secure data connections. It\u2019s an obvious business strategy to continue to improve on our national infrastructure.<\/p>\n

As for the rest, the future is going to be an interesting time, for better for sure when it comes to our personal health and convenience. Yet worse when it comes to\u2026 well, we\u2019ll just have to see, won\u2019t we?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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