For instance its got an anti-lock braking system they all do these days and
the anti-lock breaking system,
it'll have its own processor dedicated just to anti-lock braking.
And so, its got that.
Its got fuel injection, right?
Fuel injection system, its gonna have another processor dedicated to that.
So every sub system has its own processor.
And it's also got a stereo, say.
Stereo system's got to have it's own processor, but
every subsystem inside the car has it's own processor.
But the thing about this car that you notice about this device,
is that even though it has this computational intelligence,
it has the same basic interface as that 50s car.
So you drive this car pretty much the same way.
Now the 50s car, it probably had manual transmission, I'm gonna guess,
because it's the 50s.
So this will have automatic transmission.
But besides that, it has the same interface, the same steering wheel,
gas pedal, brake.
So you could train somebody to drive on the 50s car and they could drive this new
car, even though this new car is enhanced with all this computational intelligence.
So, that's the thing about IoT devices, they have a very simple interface.
They want to be easy to use, they want to give you the benefit of this computational
intelligence, so now you have anti-lock breaking for instance.
And anti-lock breaking in case you don't know,
anti-lock breaking, it prevents the tires from locking, so
you don't want the tires to skid compared to the road, right?
They should always stay in good contact with the road.
But if you brake hard, if you"re moving fast,
you brake hard, the car will skid and the tires will not move but the car will move.
So anti-lock braking tries to prevent that.
Now, before anti-lock braking,
what you used to do, I remember when I learned how to drive on snow.
You skid a lot, right?
So what you do, is when you do a hard break, you'll pump the breaks, right?
Manually pump the breaks.
And you'd have to remember this,
you'd have to be pretty consciously aware enough to remember to do this.
Anti-lock breakings do that for you, right?
Excellent breaking devices, they take care of that for you.
So this is a great benefit to drivers nowadays.
Kids they don't even know about pumping breaks.
They don't learn that because they don't have to,
anti-lock breaking takes care of it.
So the computational intelligence is helping you,
reliving you of burdens that you didn't wanna have to deal with.
But the interface is beautiful.
You don't have to worry, you just hit brake pedal just like you used to.
It just does better.
It just does what you want it to do, does better and
makes everything easier for you.
Now, a typical car like this car that we're looking at right here.
This car, it has computational intelligence, now whether or
not it has networking is a different thing.
Cars now a days, actually these days, cars are having more and more networking.
And you may have heard of this in the news, but cars are networked actually,
so you can, for instance, remote start a car, right?
Start it when you're not near the car, you can start it through the network.
Cars also have, what do they have in there?
Those, I forget the name of the brand, there's OnStar, is one brand name.
But when there's an accident, the car can, through the Internet,
connect with 911 and call and get help, right?
So this type of thing is present in cars.
My car does not have that.
But I'm cheap and I'm a professor, I buy old cars.
So my cars are old but new modern cars have these features built in there [LAUGH]
and they are actually networked.
So that would be a modern car.
The most modern car, that would be an IoT device because it has the computational
intelligence and it's also networked to add extra flexibility.
So, that's one device.
Let's take a look at another.
Let's talk about logistics.
Tracking things okay, logistics.
So say you are Walmart or some big company or your the military, something like that,
and you want to move lots of things between different
places on a certain time scale, right?
You need to get these from this manufacturing place to this sales
place on this schedule.
That's logistics.
And the military is all about logistics, right?
We are waging a war.
We need to get these devices from here to here and
these people from here to here on this time frame.
So you wanna move things.
So say you're Walmart, and
you would have to be able to track these devices that you're moving.
You wanna make sure that they are moving place to place in a certain time frame.
And you want to be able to at any time, be able to say,
where is box number whatever, right?
How many boxes do we have of this type of device at this location at this time?
And you need to be able to track that dynamically, so
you can get count for things like, weather difficulties, right?
Maybe the planes are shut down so
you can't move enough devices from here to here.
So you need to know how many are here so you can reroute things.