Real Time Tracking
Real time tracking is boring and compute intensive. What’s more important… estimating when an item will arrive both the time and the relative time (e.g. how long from now).
When we were working on the Ubi, I used to setup an IFTTT alarm to announce on the Ubi in the office that I was about to arrive. This was probably annoying rather than helpful. However, it could be helpful in other scenarios.
I would have loved to have had a geofence for my mother’s car was a child and to warn my brothers and I when she was 10 minutes away so we could tidy up the house. It would have saved, or maybe added, much stress.
We’re entering an age where we can program AI assistants to be thoughtful and work for us. What can they do with readily available information about tracking to help us be more productive? Will it end traffic congestion finally? Will people and means of production be better deployed?
Knowing much more accurately where things are and when they will be available may lead to many more opportunities and available resources, with less cost.
