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Comparing Technologies Is Never as Simple as Comparing Apples to Apples.
ASM – Active Security Management.
Security systems still only deliver a passive, slow responses to an alarm. Now technology enables a more aggressive approach. Trip an alarm and you’re instantly on camera with a nano drone on your ass. Facial recognition is running seconds later and your ‘getaway vehicle’ is tagged with an active tracking beacon. Police get a positive ID and you get charges that ‘stick’.
LBS/PBS – GPS location and Proximity Based Monitoring.
Think Google Maps are useful now? Come and see what’s being done with iBeacons Indoor wayfinding and tracking, Real Estate Virtual Tours, BLE, Autonomous Nano Drones, Geo Tagging, RFID and 3D Scanners. Track your pets, luggage, find your parked or stolen car, monitor your house, cottage or vacation home.
VR/AR (Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality),
Immersive 3D, Holographic Visuals.
Interact with haptic-feedback, Gesture Control, Remote Sensing/Viewing, and multi-user concurrent CAD is here. Be there using Distance Learning. Realize it with 3D Printing and Virtual Prototyping and it’s all available at consumer level pricing.
IoT – The Internet of Things.
Remember skateboards, iPods, cell phones, smart phones and fax machines? They were yet another fad just like The Internet of Things. Wrong! It’s here to stay and it is THE game changer. You can embrace it or ignore it, but my advice – if you choose the latter you do so at your own peril.
Time Management, Priority Management and Planning.
GTD and To Do lists. Location based reminders to buy supplies, take my meds as I walk past the kitchen or pick up the kids. You can’t know the best new tools to help you successfully run your business. Point of fact. What’s the ‘win-win’ here? Using technology to help manage itself.
Who really cares if you can count your steps for the day?That’s you New Years Resolution with the same lifespan. We now have the tools to help monitor our parents health, enable the mobility impaired, and keep in touch with those in need of constant care. Screw your connected Nike shoes and let’s start monitoring the health of our aging population.
Yesterday’s Formulas Won’t Solve Today’s Problems
The Internet of Everything
There are Apps to control your Lights, your Thermostat, to manage your To Do List, to auto-post your Tweets …
There are Hundreds of Apps for just about Everything! But that is the Problem …
How do you Choose the Right App?
Who will Configure it Properly?
How do you make them All Work Together?
Relax. Let us Take Care of All That.
