so Samsung brought us down to their developers conference
2016 we're not developers but we are interested in a lot of the same things
that developers would be one of the top trends this year is of course the
internet of things or iot the difference this time is that the
momentum finally seems to be really picking up for the first time ever there
are more Internet connected devices than there are people in the world I really
feel like I'm doing my share to make that happen by the way and as the
install base has continued to increase there has been an exponential increase
in software development so one of Samsung's big announcements is Arctic a
three- tiered Hardware offering the Artic 1 Artic 5 and Artic 10 offering a
range of functionality from pretty similar to an Arduino to capable of
machine learning and the demo they did on stage while it might have had a bit
of a cringy uh High School science presentation feel to it was really cool
because the point was to demonstrate some of the amazing flexibility and
openness of the software and Cloud side of Artic so they used resin iio to push
an update to nine devices simultaneously over the air without any loss of
connectivity pretty cool so let's have a look at some of the other cool Internet
of Things stuff that's on demo here at the developer conference so this is the
auto it's actually very similar to a project I backed on Kickstarter a little
while ago called the jbo that I pretty much backed so that I
could make fun of it when it arrived because it wasn't going to do anything
near what the team was promising it would be capable of and was extraordinarily expensive but the key
difference here is that Samsung is not positioning the auto as a retail product
but more as a proof of concept for what their Artic 5 processor can do so inside
the auto you've got an artic 5 which is an ARM-based processor you've got a
highdef camera a 320x 240 pixel resolution screen in the front that it
uses to Express itself whether it's blinking eyes or Little Smiles or
whatever else the case may be a powerful natural language engine the light change
the lights color to green and the ability to interact with
other devices through the Artic Cloud so in terms of demos they had it turning on
and off connected lights they had it looking things up similar to what an
Amazon Echo would do you know who is George Clooney to which it would reply
George Timothy Clooney is an American actor screenwriter producer director and
activist thank you very much for that auto it can wake up it can go to sleep
and it can even do things like check on traffic for you if you're heading out
somewhere and for whatever reason your phone is less convenient or whatever the
case may be and it can take pictures for you just uh it can't necessarily do
anything to make you look any better so this little number in front of me here
is called the Eddy it was entered into the makers against drought competition
it actually ended up in the top 10 and is competing in round two where they're
going to have to take this very prototype looking thing and turn it into
something a little more commercially viable but the functionality is expected
to be very similar just better what it is is a desalinator that is to say it
removes salt from the water so they're targeting Farmers specifically in
California although the applicability would obviously be a little wider
reaching than that who are buying brackish or importing agricultural water
with a celin level that is too high for the crop that they're trying to grow so
the way that it works is fairly straightforward from a you know I'm an
idiot looking at a box perspective the water goes in the one side you've got
these uh foam uh membrane and plastic
sort of layers here that the water goes through and then you pump in voltage
here and what you effectively get is highly concentrated salt water out the
other side that pumps back around through the system and then desalinated
water out the other side so they're not really measuring it in terms of like
liters of water process per minute because we're not talking about making
the water portable we're talking about targeting a particular crop so they used
avocado trees as an example and they're saying they can handle about a tenth of
an acre per hour with the current system although by doubling the size giving it
more membrane area they figured they could dramatically increase the output
somewhere in the neighborhood of like thousands of liters per
hour the way that it ties into the whole internet of things thing is that that
it's got a whole lot of cool stuff going here they've got an Arctic 10 that is
handling the pumps the valves the salinity sensors and actually
connectivity that allows you to check up on your system with the mobile app you
can monitor it in real time you can see if there's a problem with the system and
you can even generate reports so you can make decisions about how to manage your
Fleet of eddies or your crops over time
so here I've taken over the Aero Booth completely I've actually kicked all of
their staff out and uh they' they've abandoned it so I can talk about what
they're showing off and they call themselves an endtoend
iot connectivity something anyway so
basically they've got themselves a little development module right here
that in a nutshell is a Bluetooth connected 4 gpio connected dad that you
can either well in a perfect world integrate into a device at the time that
you're designing it or as part of their demonstration of how their platform is
open and we'll talk to pretty much anything you can actually literally
solder it into an existing product or even use it to communicate with
something running a Samsung Artic processor like this one right here in a
nutshell their goal is to simplify security they've got their own 256-bit
encryption layer that sits over top of normal Bluetooth security and pairing
using QR codes on every device so that connecting things to a smart home is
easier than it's necessarily been in the past and on top of that they want to
make it easier for the product developers to create interfaces for
these products so they've got a cloud tool that effectively acts like UI Lego
and you can basically say okay this connection right here controls this
onoff switch right here drag and drop a little box blip bloop on or off but it
doesn't just do on and off it can actually talk spy to the device so you could do more complex things like say
okay here's a a motor power percentage value or here's a CPU temperature that
you can report back to the user and you can design your own UI around it or you
can not totally up to you interesting so thanks
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