
So, does that mean...
that the vibration record from every HP laptop, printer etc. is going to be transmitted back to HPHQ?
Paris: Did you say vibrator?
Getting the vision thing right is important for technology announcements and HP has it nailed, twinning a great vision with advances in its sensing technology. Here's Peter Hartwell, a senior researcher at HP Labs: "With a trillion sensors embedded in the environment, all connected by computing systems, software and services, …
We're all taught in school that three quarters of the planet is covered in water. That seems to imply that three quarters of these sensors should be on the bottom of the sea, too. It just seems that making a trillion sensors is the easy part (though not particularly easy). the tricky bit is getting all the data from them and knowing where they all are.
How exactly are these guys planning to supply power to and get data from a network of sensors a couple of thousand metres down in the Atlantic or Pacific. Plus, who's going to go down there to fix them if they go wrong?
...the sensors they put in Alt, Ctrl and Delete keys so that by holding down any two the imminent finger press on the third is sensed early and the PC springs into life.
I wondered how my PC always knew when I was threatening it.
Maybe HP could also use it to know when your kicking the case in fury and automatically raise a support call for you. This way they could ring you first and save you a trip through the telephone menu system of doom.
there's already an open-sauce ad-hoc sensor network of Macbooks' accelerometers - I'm not making this up (iSeismograph) which uses the embedded Kionix KXM52-1050 three-axis accelerometer chip (dynamic range of +/- 2g and a bandwidth up to 1.5 KHz) WHY? I hear you scream , it's because Cupertino is in a wobbly bit of the planet, and quoting a 2008 paper directly "Because the MacBook laptop hardware provides an inexpensive sensor and data acquisition system, it can be placed in the field (such as mounted on a bridge) and used for real-time health monitoring applications." By health they mean BIG structure health etcetera and by mounting - I think it involves BIG clamps. However some Califrnians just leave their MB's on the table doing iSiesmo during the night...........so HP are going to buy a trillion MBP's??? ?????
Oh god. I never thought of it before, but I wonder what it will be like when every conceivable item has dozens of these MEMs and or RFID tags all transmitting in an "old" protocol? No way to find or upgrade a trillion censors... hope they get the protocol right the first time. No IPv6 transition here...
I will buy your first 1 million sensors if you will prove to me these sensors have a noise density of less than 100 ng/root Hz at a frequency that is useable in seismology, or structural monitoring and can be made practically in a MEMS device. Lesson for the day, Mr. Ken Abbott; the lab is clean and safe, the real world is not.
I'm serious about my offer! Send me a quote for 1 Million pieces and let's talk.