You may not have ever considered “the Role of IoT in Reusable Cups”. Rest assured that the ever-inventive IoT industry has.
“IoT-enabled return stations allow users to conveniently return their used cups” while providing cleaning staff with up-to-date information on how many cups are accumulating. “IoT devices can track the location and status of reusable cups, providing valuable data on usage patterns and helping optimise the distribution and collection process.” And IoT-enabled cleaning machines can make sure the cups “are sanitised according to industry standards”.
Wouldn’t it be simpler and cheaper just to install a sink and get everyone to wash their own cups?
PROBLEMS KEEP COMING
If the benefits are often small, or indeed non-existent, the set-up tax is high. You must download a different app for every manufacturer. You must make sure the device is connected to the internet (washers and driers are often kept in out-of-the-way places where the internet signal is poor).
Setting up an iPhone or an iPad can be taxing enough even though the benefits are obvious, and the devices come equipped with keypads. But keying complicated instructions into an oven is a chore of a different magnitude.
The problems do not stop when you are connected. People tend to hang onto their white goods for years. The IoT obliges them to reprogramme these devices whenever they change their service providers or their smart phones or even their passwords.
One of the most vaunted benefits of the IoT is that it allows companies to upgrade products remotely. But what if the upgrading goes wrong? Users of Sonos Inc’s audio devices who downloaded the company’s latest app discovered that it sent their speakers bonkers – playing music at ear-splitting volumes or emitting high-pitched sounds in the middle of the night.
The more interconnected appliances become, the higher the chance that they will all fail together.
From: channelnewsasia
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