I took\u00a0part in the Digital Catapult Advisory Meeting this afternoon and we were presented an exam question: How do you sell #iot to the average man\/woman?<\/p>\n
Here’s my suggestions of things to say to people who ask this in the pub (note: this will possibly never happen):<\/p>\n
– Making sure your grandfather\u00a0can stay healthy & independent in his own\u00a0home longer<\/strong> because we can track his\u00a0blood sugar level<\/a>, whether he’s fallen<\/a>, how long its been since he’s talked to someone else<\/a>\u00a0all remotely, engaging\u00a0NHS, social care services and local communities at the right time. Don’t think about it as tracking, think about it as caring.<\/p>\n – Support\u00a0homeless\u00a0children and adults<\/a>\u00a0and women in domestic abuse situations<\/strong> have access to help quicker because we know where they are when they need help with sensors and GPS tracking.<\/p>\n –\u00a0Helping you and your children manage your asthma & allergies better<\/strong> because city councils can tell what the level of pollution is on busy streets with sensors attached to street lamps<\/a>. So pedestrian only areas can be planned for, or\u00a0transport alternative offered dynamically to you by apps\u00a0like CityMapper<\/a>.<\/p>\n – Help improve your\u00a0work\u00a0environment and eyesight<\/strong> if you work with computers by measuring the environment you work in<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0your posture<\/a>\u00a0reminding you when to take breaks too.<\/p>\n – Let you know quickly if your house is going to be flooded<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n These are simple, but if we can’t convince people like my mother that the internet of things isn’t some kind of job-killing technology-driven-corporate-led move to destroy society, we’ll never get the support we need in the UK to innovate.\u00a0If you have more, do add them to the comments!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I took\u00a0part in the Digital Catapult Advisory Meeting this afternoon and we were presented an exam question: How do you sell #iot to the average man\/woman? Here’s my suggestions of things to say to people who ask this in the pub (note: this will possibly never happen): – Making sure your grandfather\u00a0can stay healthy &… Continue reading The Internet of things for the common man & woman<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[30,107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet-of-things","category-marketing","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p41XhY-tc","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1810"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1813,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810\/revisions\/1813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}