Friday, January 06, 2006
huMan to Machine & Machine to Machine
The key to Tridium's growth is "anything to internet". Followed that, Echelon came up with iLon and Bacnet brought out Bacnet/IP.
Tridium's main goal is M2M market, which furthers the above idea. People predict that in the future, there will be more machine to machine communication than human to machine on networks including Internet. And that's why Tridium joined Honeywell. Honeywell has a deep pocket to support Tridium's ambition.
However, M2M is a little far away from BA industry. And I think the distance in between is the human to machine interface. With more and more devices support web interface. The operators should not be locked at the PC. Using generic wireless web-supported personal electronics such as PDA, cell phone and more fancy stuffs like all-in-1-card and e-paper, the BA system can be accessed anywhere in the building. I'll call these as pervasive interfaces.
With pervasive interfaces, M2M sets the foothold in BA systems. Site devices can send real time and historical data to remote servers through M2M technology. We don't need PC on site for system persentation and historical data storage anymore. Operators log on the system provider's portal web server and check the building conditions. The service provider maintains the system at back stage. The BA system can be accessed anywhere even thoudsands miles away from the building.
I'll explorer more of this in latter posts.
Tridium's main goal is M2M market, which furthers the above idea. People predict that in the future, there will be more machine to machine communication than human to machine on networks including Internet. And that's why Tridium joined Honeywell. Honeywell has a deep pocket to support Tridium's ambition.
However, M2M is a little far away from BA industry. And I think the distance in between is the human to machine interface. With more and more devices support web interface. The operators should not be locked at the PC. Using generic wireless web-supported personal electronics such as PDA, cell phone and more fancy stuffs like all-in-1-card and e-paper, the BA system can be accessed anywhere in the building. I'll call these as pervasive interfaces.
With pervasive interfaces, M2M sets the foothold in BA systems. Site devices can send real time and historical data to remote servers through M2M technology. We don't need PC on site for system persentation and historical data storage anymore. Operators log on the system provider's portal web server and check the building conditions. The service provider maintains the system at back stage. The BA system can be accessed anywhere even thoudsands miles away from the building.
I'll explorer more of this in latter posts.
# posted by comfortpoint @ 10:14 PM 
