A mate of mine lives beside a loch 50km north of Glasgow.
Having been, among many other things, Douglas Adams' IT Director, he tends to
install gadgets.
He installed a Skybell ("Answer your door with a smartphone"):
http://www.skybell.com/
Compare your (someday) NBN with the southern foothills of the Highlands:
" ... thanks to the abysmal communications infrastructure of the rural UK,
we're on a satellite connection, so a ring on our doorbell is relayed through
our home network, then 72,000km+ to the Skybell servers which, if they deign to
respond (which they don't always do), then send the signal back another
72,000km+ to our network, which then alerts the Apps on our phones and tablets.
Or not. If I then choose to activate the video feed to see who's at the door,
the process is repeated, this time at video bandwidth".
More at http://two-worlds.com/internet-of-thing/#more-304
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Roger Clarke http://www.rogerclarke.com/
Xamax Consultancy Pty Ltd 78 Sidaway St, Chapman ACT 2611 AUSTRALIA
Tel: +61 2 6288 6916 http://about.me/roger.clarke
mailto:[email protected] http://www.xamax.com.au/
Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Law University of N.S.W.
Visiting Professor in Computer Science Australian National University
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