The Art of SmArt
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Storyteller | CTO | Arabic Speaker | Consultant | Mentor | AI, GenAI, IoT, Computer Vision, Smart Cities | Providing 'Outcomes' to organizations through Technology | ???? ?????? ????????? ? ?????? ??????? ?????? ??????
Did you notice the word “Smart” is being attached to almost everything nowadays: smart city, smart TV, smart thermostat, smart watch, smart pillow, smart grid, smart car and smart mouse trap? Search on Google for anything and you can find the word “smart” attached to it. It has become one of those words that gets used because it makes the thing linked to it sound futuristic, new and cool.
The Internet of Things technology – both Industrial and Consumer – has made connecting “things” possible. I get asked very often to present on “smart things”. What I often discover is that many don’t know what “smart” means so I always start by asking the questions: what do you mean by smart or what is your understanding of smart? Answers to the question range from “I don’t know exactly” to “it’s where everything is connected, isn’t it?”. The word “smart” is very often confused with “connected”, but does “connecting” “things” make them Smart?
Let’s take the Smart building concept whose definition is very elastic and will depend on who are talking to. From a safety and security perspective, a “smart building” is the one equipped with video surveillance, access control, intrusion detection and fire alarm systems. From an energy efficiency perspective, a “smart building” could be one equipped with energy-saving lights, electrical storage and green energy sources. A more advanced and recent perspective looks at the smart building as a set of interconnected systems, in which the components of the building interact in an integrated, dynamic and functional way, both with each other and the building occupants. Think of an office building that dims or turns off the lights, raises the AC temperature by 2 degrees when nobody is occupying the floors. The same building can partially switch to the electrical storage system at peak electrical consumption times because the price of KW/H is higher than normal.
What is “smart” to you? Would like to hear from you on what it means in your domain!
Software Engineering Lead at Amazon | FinTech | AI & Cloud Migration | Empowering teams to build scalable, customer-centric solutions that inspire young minds.
7 年I would say that we can call a device smart, when it's capability is beyond what this device was built for originally when they first invented it, also there is a lot of technology behind that, for example smart phones, phones was build to make phone calls only then they added sms later, but when the phone start to be capable of doing many other things like taking pictures, check emails, internet and manage your time and schedule and a lot more that's when we start calling it smart.