Just a thoought... You don't need the Internet-of-things or AI in your fridge, or microwave, or pizza oven, or car etc. Anyone who says that you do is likely not worthy of your business. The more we connect these things, the more likely they sre to break in ways that you and I cannot fix!
@nathan What if… and I'm just playing devil’s advocate here… you could make a case for enhanced connected, AI to regulate energy usage in such a way as it coukd make significant impact — if not on an individual pocketbook level — but in cumulative for the benefit of energy use overall.
10% off your washer’s energy use won't save you much, but 10% off hundreds of thousands or millions might help globally.
I could see his it also might get wasted on the backend, though.
@LoneLocust Yeah, that's both compelling and interesting. Mmm... gonna have to dwell on that, but I'm really not that interested in the companies profitting from the data that I'd have to surrender.
@nathan again, just thinking “in an ideal scenario” I don’t see much need for PPI outflow to do this. Things like usage patterns can be reasonably anonymous.
Obviously, the corporate overlords don’t want it to be, and a clever data monkey can reverse engineer a lot of info from usage patterns.
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