No way is putting the Internet into a watch or say a toilet pointless. The data collected from such things will extend and save our lives.
Send your heart rate to your doctor and or the ability for him or a medical staff to monitor via your watch is invaluable.
A IoT toilet of the future should be able to analyze your specimen data, look for irregularities in it's data based on million of records and notify you to schedule a doctor's appointment.
Samsung is presenting the benefits of IoT terribly wrong it seems.
Maybe that will be helped by maintaining millions of records about feces, doctor's visits, prescriptions, OTC supplement/medicine use, diet, genetics, etc. Insert "big data" buzzwords.
Still, it leaves the question of whether it's actually possible, worth it and will be embraced by enough people to work. I'm skeptical.
Great to hear thanks for pointing this out! Definitely innovation needed to proliferate/become the norm.
Of course there are many ways to skin a cat and no one is doing it here in the US... Yet. The one who does it best and has the biggest Rolodex/bank wins in this much needed space.
The NSA is not currently logging all my health data because there is no digital stream of health data on the internet which they could intercept. Perhaps they could break into my doctor's files if they cared, but all they'd be able to find would be an occasional snapshot from the occasional checkup. Most of the information present would have to be read and analyzed by a human.
This is very, very different from the situation which would exist in an "internet of things" world in which my toilet, coffeepot, toothbrush, and the like were all snooping on me and streaming their results. By intercepting all this data, which we already know the NSA is constantly doing, it would be possible to automatically construct a statistics-based picture of my health, and that of everyone else around me.
This is incredibly creepy, fucked up, wrong, and not even a little bit OK.
And of other things, like hemorrhoids, diverticulitis or an abscess. Colon cancer is typically so slow-growing that this is unlikely to save more lives than currently prescribed check-ups and self-observation. The increasing flood of data remains constant as it has since language was developed; it'll be interesting to see how we (or our software agents) adjust sensitivity this time to avoid mass panic, or more pseudo-science trends. See: increased frequency of mammograms leading to more false positives, more stress, more unnecessary invasive procedures.
Yeah when I say above checks against millions of records ... Those records would be over many years and possibly many many years of data that can point to data points showing this X group of people died of this disease and their specimen(urine too) all had this same trait.
Send your heart rate to your doctor and or the ability for him or a medical staff to monitor via your watch is invaluable.
A IoT toilet of the future should be able to analyze your specimen data, look for irregularities in it's data based on million of records and notify you to schedule a doctor's appointment.
Samsung is presenting the benefits of IoT terribly wrong it seems.