Does the average Kamau know what a Raspberry Pi is leave alone what its used for? Kweli huyu Cornelius ni Mutua tu.

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The floods and eventual collapse of a house in Huruma are demonstrations that we indeed need to adapt smart initiatives to solve these problems.

Internet of things (as I explained to my two year old son) is when electronic gadgets or machines communicate with each other to produce products and provide services without human intervention. For example, when you park your car, the coffee maker pours you a hot cup before you arrive at your desk.

@Trader, your example is in the further future.

@Ash Ock AI has been in existence for a while. But IOT can/is/will exist with minimal to no AI.

What is needed is sensors, internet (wi-fi or bluetooth)

Examples of IoT

1. Most of the cars manufactured in 2014 and later can connect with your mobile phone (smart phone) and you can receive and make calls, read messages and emails with your phone in the pocket .

2. IF you are in a town well covered in maps your car can alert you incase you are running low in petrol and from maps, it can calculate how long it will take to get to the next pump.

3. Waze - app that tells your phone where accidents have been noted and reported.

4. Self driving cars

5. Nest - The famous app that detects smoke and CO2 in the house.

6. Tile App - Add-on to keys and other valuables using bluetooth for used to find lost/misplaced keys

I think the thika road example is very poor since its a work in progress I mean, have they even completed mapping and identifying spots? IoT is already in play as shown on the graph you pasted and growing in stages, the pessimists will always have something to say, remember they even said that the Ipad will not take off because its useless since laptops are serving the purpose, but look at what the giants are doing. Apple, Google, Dell, AT&T, Samsung, Amazon, Microsoft, Bosch, Cisco, GE, Huawei, Hitachi, LG and the list is endless. If IoT capable devices become the standard (as championed by Samsung) the rest will be forced to follow the tow. Data can only make sense when analyzed by humans. The argument that an AI machine has to analyze the data for IoT to succeed is rather laughable, i don't doubt there will be plenty of that, but trend has began and there's more to come.

Actually, I never meant that you are the pessimist. The writer of the wired article is. As for thika road. First things first.

Am sure you have visited other cities with better infrastructure....then you know thika road is not even close to anything modern, I mean a road with no HOV lane and side lane where a car needing road assistance can tow to...so even if it was mapped and a car gets into an accident, getting to that vehicle will still be problematic (no real time response is possible) because of the traffic pile up. So even in the rain, even if the road was flooded, all we Kenyans could say is Thika road is flooded get amazed, complain and keep going. No solution would be forthcoming. In what is now a perfect highway(there's room for improvement), there would be people watching traffic as it moves, and reporting like in this case or this case and in congested situations so we're still very far from modern. This technology is old. In a perfect world a GPS would give you more than one way of getting to your destination and give you details of the time you will take on the road depending on the traffic and incidents reported.

As for big data, we have not even utilized the capacity of an Oracle database with all the data in the world and surely you cant assume that people are sitting and waiting do you?



You wouldn't need to, your phone will communicate to you through your car. Any bluetooth enabled toyota can do that

Your bar is too low

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spooky stuff. robots will rule us all