Home Sweet Home

There were couple of very interesting blogs recently in SDN.

1) Home energy monitoring with iPhone and Twitter
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/weblogs?blog=/pub/wlg/13731

AND

2) The Open Cloud Manifesto
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/weblogs?blog=/pub/wlg/13720

In the first blog the writer demonstrated a geeky application which helped him to monitor the real time energy consumption at his home. He could monitor it via iPhone or through a web page http://www.astill.org/house/showdata.php which provides a dashboard display of real time energy consumption. The dashboard is created using SAP's tool Xcelsius. The system also Tweets the writer (www.twitter.com) if there is an over consumption.

The second blog spoke about the in news hot hot technology 'Cloud Computing' and its potential in providing Enterprise Solutions.

After reading the blogs I was just having some wild thought, so I decided to bore you down with it...

Cloud computing is a rapidly growing tech and knowing or unknowing we are the user of this tech in our day to day life.
Google and it various services could be argued to be examples of cloud computing...

Just for fun sake what would happen if we mix both the tech's mentioned in the above two blogs. My guess would end up having a delicious chocolate cake right out of the oven.

Hypothetically speaking we could come out with generic cloud computing solution and establish a company name Badal(Cloud) Enterprise ;).

People would register for this solutions to maintain and monitor their house hold energy consumption and the various other 'Make them lazy services'.

I was always fascinated by the documentaries shown in Discovery channel about future homes. It talked about how the future homes would be smart enough and filled with gadget to carter to our day to day needs and make our life more comfortable (... and eventually increase our belly size which in my case is already exponentially increasing).

But making each and every house smart might have its own heavy expense attached to it. Imagine running a mini server plugged to the hitech gadgets

How about we take the smart stuff out of the house and throw it into the clouds (managed by companies like Badal enterprise).

In that way we could build the houses and it gadgets - enabled with pluggable sockets which could be seamlessly plugged to the clouds created by our company "The Badal Entrprise - bEnt.com " and thus save people's money which they would rather enjoy spending on their wines (We could also think about automatic delivery of wines based on the inventory figures retrieved by our cloud from the pluggable wine cellar, and thus making double profit... yo).


Hmm... what could the benefit of such a techie home:

1. You left in a hurry and forgot to switch off your AC/Heater. Don't worry the bEnt.com is at your services... just tweet me
2. Your fridge inventory of vegetables, ice creams, chocolates and milk and of course beer is running low. Don't you worry your pluggable fridge had already informed bEnt.com - and by the time you return home "Goods would be delivered at you doorsteps Madam (and of course billed on your husbands credit card)"
3. Its a hot day and your are on my way home. Tweet to bEnt.com using your iPhone and val la you will find your home having the perfect temperature.
4. I want the food to be hot by the time my children reach home from school... tweet bEnt.com and we will take care of your microwave.(PS: we still can't serve food, we still have 5 yrs to go for household robots to be available in market)
5. Tweet from bEnt.com: 'Hi George you have a termite attack on your attic, should I inform pest control...? just say Yes and leave the rest to me'
6. Tweet from bEnt.com: '<shout...> George you son Tom has been playing XBox since last 3 hours, should I switch off the TV?'
7. Tweet from the (perky) bEnt.com again: '<whisper...>Your daughter has brought her boyfriend home... psst... should I call the Police ?
   

I am sure you people would come up with many more ideas .

Imagine what help smart homes would be to people with disabilities.

I am sure there is lot of work going on in this front.
A simple google search gave me the following links:
http://www.smarthome.com/_/index.aspx
http://www.sersc.org/journals/IJSH/

I think giving smart homes a Midas touch of Cloud Computing would give leaps and bounds to its core abilities.

A Positive Step

 

A positive news during recession time.

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/India_will_be_big_tech_innovator/rssarticleshow/4279997.cms

But I beleive we still are decades behind in terms of innovation... although it might be my ignorance or unawareness.

The second page of the article enlighted some good grass root level innovations, but I don't think that they are funded across the country.
It also talked about the IT and mobile telephony powered healthcare delivery system, which is already in place but not across the country. BJP's election IT portfolio promised to extensive implement the use of this healthcare system in the remote rural parts of india.

 

Lets hope that the article proves to be true...

Nanotechnology - The future for science students

For around half hour today I was browsing the Internet for Nanotech news... and yes it was on office time. I was quiet astonished on the kind of development that has been done on this front.

 

It all started after reading a blog written in the Leading Edge Forum - a forum maintained by CSC for internal publishing. http://www.csc.com/ee/lef/

 

 

After reading I realized that for the next 50 years or so there is immense scope of research related work in Nanotechnology.

 

Last year there was report that the Chinese government had huge plans for Nanotechnology http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/02/the-chinese-gov.html#previouspost

 

So how do our students get themselves started in Nanotechnology. Are there any courses in India? A simple Google search left me baffled that there are lot of course conducted by our countries various universities and research organizations

 

Amity University:

http://amity.edu/admission/programoffered.asp?stream=Both&campus1=Both&discipline=18#A12029QQQ

 

Others including IIT kanpur:

http://www.winentrance.com/nanotech.htm

 

and many more…

 

This link show the research going around in universities and Research Centers

http://www.indiananotechnology.com/uploads/Nanotechnology_Research_in_India_By_U-Shu_Nanotech_rev_B.pdf

 

There are research related to Nanobiology, Nanomaterials, Nanocomposites and what not...

 

More blogs related to Nanotech

http://crnano.typepad.com/crnblog/science_technology/

 

Have fun… and do share your thoughts.