Smart Robot Companions and More! - Internet of Things, SDC2016
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2016-05-06
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1,310 words · ~6 min read
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so Samsung brought us down to their developers conference
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2016 we're not developers but we are interested in a lot of the same things
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that developers would be one of the top trends this year is of course the
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internet of things or iot the difference this time is that the
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momentum finally seems to be really picking up for the first time ever there
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are more Internet connected devices than there are people in the world I really
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feel like I'm doing my share to make that happen by the way and as the
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install base has continued to increase there has been an exponential increase
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in software development so one of Samsung's big announcements is Arctic a
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three- tiered Hardware offering the Artic 1 Artic 5 and Artic 10 offering a
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range of functionality from pretty similar to an Arduino to capable of
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machine learning and the demo they did on stage while it might have had a bit
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of a cringy uh High School science presentation feel to it was really cool
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because the point was to demonstrate some of the amazing flexibility and
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openness of the software and Cloud side of Artic so they used resin iio to push
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an update to nine devices simultaneously over the air without any loss of
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connectivity pretty cool so let's have a look at some of the other cool Internet
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of Things stuff that's on demo here at the developer conference so this is the
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auto it's actually very similar to a project I backed on Kickstarter a little
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while ago called the jbo that I pretty much backed so that I
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could make fun of it when it arrived because it wasn't going to do anything
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near what the team was promising it would be capable of and was extraordinarily expensive but the key
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difference here is that Samsung is not positioning the auto as a retail product
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but more as a proof of concept for what their Artic 5 processor can do so inside
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the auto you've got an artic 5 which is an ARM-based processor you've got a
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highdef camera a 320x 240 pixel resolution screen in the front that it
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uses to Express itself whether it's blinking eyes or Little Smiles or
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whatever else the case may be a powerful natural language engine the light change
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the lights color to green and the ability to interact with
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other devices through the Artic Cloud so in terms of demos they had it turning on
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and off connected lights they had it looking things up similar to what an
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Amazon Echo would do you know who is George Clooney to which it would reply
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George Timothy Clooney is an American actor screenwriter producer director and
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activist thank you very much for that auto it can wake up it can go to sleep
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and it can even do things like check on traffic for you if you're heading out
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somewhere and for whatever reason your phone is less convenient or whatever the
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case may be and it can take pictures for you just uh it can't necessarily do
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anything to make you look any better so this little number in front of me here
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is called the Eddy it was entered into the makers against drought competition
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it actually ended up in the top 10 and is competing in round two where they're
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going to have to take this very prototype looking thing and turn it into
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something a little more commercially viable but the functionality is expected
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to be very similar just better what it is is a desalinator that is to say it
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removes salt from the water so they're targeting Farmers specifically in
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California although the applicability would obviously be a little wider
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reaching than that who are buying brackish or importing agricultural water
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with a celin level that is too high for the crop that they're trying to grow so
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the way that it works is fairly straightforward from a you know I'm an
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idiot looking at a box perspective the water goes in the one side you've got
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these uh foam uh membrane and plastic
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sort of layers here that the water goes through and then you pump in voltage
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here and what you effectively get is highly concentrated salt water out the
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other side that pumps back around through the system and then desalinated
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water out the other side so they're not really measuring it in terms of like
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liters of water process per minute because we're not talking about making
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the water portable we're talking about targeting a particular crop so they used
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avocado trees as an example and they're saying they can handle about a tenth of
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an acre per hour with the current system although by doubling the size giving it
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more membrane area they figured they could dramatically increase the output
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somewhere in the neighborhood of like thousands of liters per
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hour the way that it ties into the whole internet of things thing is that that
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it's got a whole lot of cool stuff going here they've got an Arctic 10 that is
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handling the pumps the valves the salinity sensors and actually
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connectivity that allows you to check up on your system with the mobile app you
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can monitor it in real time you can see if there's a problem with the system and
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you can even generate reports so you can make decisions about how to manage your
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Fleet of eddies or your crops over time
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so here I've taken over the Aero Booth completely I've actually kicked all of
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their staff out and uh they' they've abandoned it so I can talk about what
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they're showing off and they call themselves an endtoend
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iot connectivity something anyway so
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basically they've got themselves a little development module right here
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that in a nutshell is a Bluetooth connected 4 gpio connected dad that you
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can either well in a perfect world integrate into a device at the time that
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you're designing it or as part of their demonstration of how their platform is
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open and we'll talk to pretty much anything you can actually literally
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solder it into an existing product or even use it to communicate with
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something running a Samsung Artic processor like this one right here in a
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nutshell their goal is to simplify security they've got their own 256-bit
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encryption layer that sits over top of normal Bluetooth security and pairing
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using QR codes on every device so that connecting things to a smart home is
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easier than it's necessarily been in the past and on top of that they want to
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make it easier for the product developers to create interfaces for
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these products so they've got a cloud tool that effectively acts like UI Lego
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and you can basically say okay this connection right here controls this
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onoff switch right here drag and drop a little box blip bloop on or off but it
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doesn't just do on and off it can actually talk spy to the device so you could do more complex things like say
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okay here's a a motor power percentage value or here's a CPU temperature that
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you can report back to the user and you can design your own UI around it or you
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can not totally up to you interesting so thanks
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for checking out our Internet of Things Roundup here at the Samsung developer conference 2016 don't forget to check
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out our Samsung developer conference 2016 playlist if you want to see our
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