Could the Internet of Sound bridge the gap between IoT and offline devices?

RE: Could the Internet of Sound bridge the gap between IoT and offline devices?

NigelB — Thu, 07 Jun 2018 09:37:51 GMT

I suppose arguably CTCSS, standard old 64k MODEMs (that I used to use back in the early days of the internet) and DTMF are all forms of acoustic data that I have used, so it would be interesting to know if they were doing anything clever to increase the data flow compared to those technologies... and how secure it is as a medium... there are a number of other possible solutions such as Bluetooth, infrared and light source modulation that could equally be used in many of their applications.

But yes, it sounds like the hype has got more than a bit carried away with itself! I must look up the website next time I need cheering up [View:/resized-image/__size/16x16/__key/commentfiles/f7d226abd59f475c9d224a79e3f0ec07-8ba37cc3-03cc-452c-b491-261bb5e5bd51/contentimage_5F00_2516.png:16:16]

RE: Could the Internet of Sound bridge the gap between IoT and offline devices?

pettitda — Sun, 11 Dec 2016 21:41:16 GMT

I just looked at the calendar to make sure it wasn't April Fools day. From their website: "Virtually any machine or device with a speaker or microphone can use Chirp". Explain to me how something that doesn't have a microprocessor (like grandfather's record player) communicates with another device in any meaningful way. Better yet, explain to me how something that has a 8bit micro-controller with 1k ROM and 256 bytes of RAM (which was mostly used when the product was developed) communicates with a modern device in a way not intended by the original design. Either there are no engineers at Chirp, or the marketing department is so far removed from the engineering department that they're operating "open loop".

RE: Could the Internet of Sound bridge the gap between IoT and offline devices?

michaelkellett — Fri, 09 Dec 2016 10:06:24 GMT

Talking about an Internet of Sound is hyping this idea way beyond it's reasonable potential. On their website Chirp offer a reasonable analogy ( "A Chirp[emoticon:7d377b609b6f44bf9290e3d8a0b9a733] is a sonic barcode") and then they get carried away with the nonsense and silly claims.

For example:

"the only technology that can speak to anything from your grandfather's 1970s record player to the latest iPhone 7, allowing them to talk, interact, share data and create experiences around that communication" - well come on then, just how will it speak to the "grandfather's 1970s record player" - just silliness !

The claims for interfaces to "legacy industrial equipment" on their website are just as daft.

Data over audio is OLD, very very old technology - I think even the "Man from UNCLE" had one of those acoustic couplers for a classic telephone - that's what the 300 baud modem standard was about. Fine that Chirp are re-baking an old idea for some modern applications but let's not get too carried away with it.