The 'Internet Of Things' making its way into our everyday lives!

"If you know where something is or what its status is you can resource your engineers to go and fix it…” BT project director Alan Ward.

The ‘Internet of Things’ is a term that is frequently being used in the Industrial Controls and Automation world. The term is cropping up all over the place and it really is looking like the way forward in the manufacturing world.

Earlier on I stumbled across this article here on the Guardian website about the ‘Internet of Things’ coming to Milton Keynes. In all honesty I thought they were advertising a seminar that I was going to be interested in attending…but they weren’t. Milton Keynes is becoming the trial location for day to day ‘Internet of things’ and it’s fascinating. Pushing aside the obvious “they should be spending money on repairs/roads etc” statements, the development in technology is significant. Who would have thought your own satnav (and google maps) will let you know whether there is a car park space available!

I can imagine this is only the start of these technological changes to come and this one is pretty small and makes us all a tad lazy and fit into this 'efficient, busy, fast, lifestyle' we seem to be creating, all that aside I’m pretty excited!

Thoughts/opinions on the IOT's?

Ashleigh