Google is helping Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh become a
testing ground for Internet of Things solutions through a $500,000 grant
and access to unreleased Google IoT technologies, according to the
Pittsburgh Post Gazette. The
plan is to outfit many of the campuses everyday items, ranging from
coffee pots to bus stops, with wireless sensors to collect data and
provide reactionary features. The university and city officials hope the
technologies deployed at Carnegie Mellon will eventually be used
citywide.
One of the project's primary goals
is to create a platform that solves the interoperability problem by
enabling all IoT-equipped devices on campus to communicate with each
other. For example, an internet
connected alarm clock could talk to an internet connected coffee
machine to tell it when to have coffee ready by.
The current lack of interoperability among devices is an $8 trillion
problem, according to McKinsey. McKinsey's recent IoT economic value-add
forecasts states that if the IoT interoperability problem was solved,
the IoT would add $11 trillion in 2020 to the global economy through
increased efficiencies, such as savings on energy costs and
infrastructure improvements. If it is not solved, McKinsey estimates the
economic value of the IoT will be $3 trillion.
( Businessinsider )
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