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What's the dumbest thing you could sense and connect to the internet?

cstanton

At first, I thought "how about the internet of showers?" then realised monitoring of water consumption, moisture, bacteria levels, and general use was probably sensible.

 

Then I thought "what about shovels?" then I figured this is more like it, there's probably not a lot you could gain from connecting a capacitive sensor to a shovel, or detect soil humidity and acidity while you dig, or know you're digging into a pipe if you keep going, well, maybe I'm starting to actually convince myself it is sensible here.

 

This isn't working.

 

Someone convince me, what's the dumbest thing you could sense and connect to the internet? There's got to be something superfluous.

  • I had someone try to make an internet outage detector ... apparently it would be connected to the LAN, ping a given address, and if it didn't get a response for a few pings in a row, then it would try to send an e-mail to alert the user.

     

    But it was only connected to the internet via the one link. So when the internet went down ... absolutely nothing happened.

    I had to laugh.

     

    - Gough

  • in reply to Gough Lui

    Almost sensible, if only it had a gsm modem XD

  • Data from this useless box? Like how much dark it is inside the box when it is closed!

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    I can't believe they even created a DIY kit for this image

  • in reply to Gough Lui

    Lol ... if nothing happens, then it is a signal to show it is a network outage ... maybe that's how he designed it!? image

  • in reply to pettitda

    I think you are on to something, . You could measure the IQ of a bag of hammers. That should be pretty pointless.

  • How about a Cloud connected solar super-nova detector?  It would report to the Cloud service a count of Supernovas occurring to our SUN as recognized by the individual SNC iOT device.  The count of Supernova events reported by each individual Super Nova iOT device, would be available to each user, along with an optional (through In App purchase) end-of-the-Universe event counter.  These counters would be accessible to any Internet connected smart-phone running our App.  

     

    I'm currently looking for a test scenario so I can prove that the SNC iOT device can properly distinguish between the two different events, local-Supernova vs wide-scale end-of-the-Universe. 

  • in reply to ka2dew

    I just decided that a much more useless iOT sensor would not bother with the cat.  It would, instead, track the location of the house itself.  I think the readback, to maximum readability, should translate the actual position coordinates into an easy to read township designation. 

  • in reply to ka2dew

    oh crap.  I missed the world ended sensor above.  I guess we could incorporate all 3 features into the device.  Again, differentiating between the events will be interesting.  What we need is a Lagrange point sensor between the Earth and the Sun that can tell the difference.  Possibly a Lunar Surface device to help with the Universe-still-exists testing.  The SNC is getting more and more expensive.  I guess we could offer the SNC iOT device along with the two accessory space-probe units in a package deal, with a tiny discount to somebody who picks up all the pieces and the launch service in a single purchase.  Early adopters and pre-Beta adopters will get our special gold-colored iOT device and the Windows-Mobile App version in a special shipment where each byte of the App is individually adorned with a platinum accent. 

  • This thread just won't die.

    Another thing that won't die is a pet rock.

    They have been around since 1975, but I bet those original pet rocks are hard to find now.

    They were (are) also pretty dumb.

    They need to be upgraded with GPS' and cell phones so you can find them wherever they are and talk to them wherever you are.

  • in reply to dougw

    I bet a pet-rock purring detector or pet-rock wet-self detector would get some attention?