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Smart Bricks to Monitor Buildings of the Future
Roland Piquepaille writes "Scientists from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed a "smart brick" which can monitor a building's health and report its conditions wirelessly. "This innovation could change the face of the construction industry," said Chang Liu, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Illinois. "We are living with more and more smart electronics all around us, but we still live and work in fairly dumb buildings. By making our buildings smarter, we can improve both our comfort and safety." Built into a wall, these bricks could monitor a building's temperature, vibration and movement. Such information could be vital to firefighters battling a blazing skyscraper, or to rescue workers ascertaining the soundness of an earthquake-damaged structure. These researchers also think these devices could help monitoring nurseries, daycares and senior homes. You'll find more details in this summary."
Will it shoot out gas when someone graffitis it?
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I guess i cant use "Dumb as a half pile of bricks" anymore.
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Such information could be vital to firefighters battling a blazing skyscraper...
Finally, a solution for all of those brick skyscrapers.
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If the brick says the buildings about to fall, what can the owners do?
Get on the phone to their brokers and triple their insurance policy
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
Let's see....IPv6 should give us enough IP addresses so every brick can have their own address. Hope the building doesnt stop you from moving from one area to the other if you set your subnet wrong.
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Wow, it's gonna suck upgrading all of those when new a kernel comes out.
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I guess i cant use "Dumb as a half pile of bricks" anymore.
If the bricks end up running "Microsoft Windows for Brick Computing" as their OS, you still might be able to.
"If the brick says the buildings about to fall, what can the owners do?
Get on the phone to their brokers and triple their insurance policy"
Hopefully before the brick gets on the phone to your insurance company and triples the price of insurance...