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The IoT, the MinnowBoard, and How They Fit Into the Universe (Video)
The IoT is becoming more pervasive partly because processor costs are dropping. So are bandwidth costs, even if your ISP isn't sharing those savings with you. Today's interviewee, Mark Skarpness, is "the Director of Embedded Software in the Open Source Technology Center at Intel Corporation," which is an amazing mouthful of a title. What it means is that he works to extend Intel's reach into Open Source communities, and is also aware of how hardware and software price drops -- and bandwidth price drops at the "wholesale" level -- mean that if you add a dash of IPV6, even lowly flip-flops might have their own IPs one day.
This video interview is a little less than six minutes long, while the text transcript covers a 17 minute conversation between Mark Skarpness and Slashdot's Timothy Lord. The video can be considered a "meet Mark" thing, and watching it will surely give you the idea that yes, this guy knows his stuff, but for more info about the spread of the IoT and how the Open Hardware MinnowBoard fits into the panoply of developer tools for IoT work, you'll have to read the transcript.
This video interview is a little less than six minutes long, while the text transcript covers a 17 minute conversation between Mark Skarpness and Slashdot's Timothy Lord. The video can be considered a "meet Mark" thing, and watching it will surely give you the idea that yes, this guy knows his stuff, but for more info about the spread of the IoT and how the Open Hardware MinnowBoard fits into the panoply of developer tools for IoT work, you'll have to read the transcript.
intel thinks they can break into this market with a product that has a heat sink?
They are competing against vendors like TI and ST whose processors run for months on coin cells.
Apple makes their own processors, antennas, radios, boards, devices. Why is nobody thinking about them for IoT. I say simply because there are no announcements, rumors, or even speculations of what they could or would make. They already have the network resources too.
JJ
So much for Flash being dead.
"If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear." - Every fascist, ever
You can not interview an Intel person without Moore's law being mentioned.
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"...also aware of how hardware and software price drops -- and bandwidth price drops at the "wholesale" level -- mean that if you add a dash of IPV6, even lowly flip-flops might have their own IPs one day. "
Lowly flip-flops? If you mean hardware, then I don't think you understand hardware too well. Lowly flip-flops already dominate the digital world. If you mean Obama, then I see what you are saying there.
...are gay.
With the IoT pranksters can turn your dorm lights on and off all night long, shut down your fridge while you sleep or trigger your home's fire alarms, etc. It takes harassing to a new level. Besides, do you want Facebook or the local police, know how many times a day you open your fridge or your toilet flushes? Iot is only a manufacturers need to sell more silicon. And in any case consumers should have a not connected alternative to every item.
Do you really want your house be pranked or sabotaged just because IoT is cool?
Unedited transcripts are always jarring to read. With just a little time invested, the conversation can look much more intelligent. "Now, at what point, is it you know, will it be too cheap to meter, in five or eight years from now?" is just awkward in written prose.