IoT: Internet of Things
It is a world of beacons, that enrich the experience of people willing to be monitored in their tasks.
The beacon just sends its ID, like a very dumb client, to an App that actually makes of sense of it.
Is that really the idea of IoT? It opens a lot of doors, true. But ideally the beacons would also hold some computing power that would ease the load on the host.
As the world will be filled up by beacons, the UX challenge is to ease the information flow (like always) so that the person benefiting from IoT is not overloaded with information and notification.
IoT is becoming very common in marketing, but at the end is more than it. It is about learning from context, and little by little, the dumb beacon will become smarter and more hard worker.
It is a world of beacons, that enrich the experience of people willing to be monitored in their tasks.
The beacon just sends its ID, like a very dumb client, to an App that actually makes of sense of it.
Is that really the idea of IoT? It opens a lot of doors, true. But ideally the beacons would also hold some computing power that would ease the load on the host.
As the world will be filled up by beacons, the UX challenge is to ease the information flow (like always) so that the person benefiting from IoT is not overloaded with information and notification.
IoT is becoming very common in marketing, but at the end is more than it. It is about learning from context, and little by little, the dumb beacon will become smarter and more hard worker.