IoT in Tourism
IoT Stands for the Internet of Things.
Internet, the interconnected networks of information, I don't need to explain
Things here earlier referred to like anything and now as everything, such as a device, plant, animal, humans or object. with only one condition that it should have an ability to be assigned an IP address so that it can transfer data over the internet.
So a thing that can transfer data over the internet and the internet as a communication medium are together referred to as the Internet of Things.
We understand manmade objects can be built-in with capabilities of being able to transfer data but how can a man, plant or animal transfer data.
They can with the use of chips and wearable devices.
Archives say that Kevin Ashton of MIT was the first one to use this term and proposed the convergence of wireless communication technology and microelectronic mechanical systems (MEMS), enabling data generated by the machines to be available to drive improvements, unifying the strengths of operational technology and information technology.
Now the available technology has evolved and matured to be used for a variety of applications, machine to machine, machine to humans and also humans to humans, in almost all industries to better understand customers, which improves business decisions, then enable businesses to develop and deliver enhanced products and services to the customers and increase the value of business.
All regulated without human intervention. Wow!
Understand the scope of IoT, billions of people using trillion of things each somehow connected to one another through internet needing gazillions of Ip addresses, If IP address is a new ID protocol for everything, one day all humans in the world will have a unique IP Id? Isn't that a dream?
One ID, One Currency, One Economy, One Civilization, One World. Ooh, la la!
We understand the set of interrelated objects participating in one common process as an ecosystem, so IoT is an ecosystem which consists of web-enabled devices, that use embedded sensors, processors and communication hardware to collect, send and process data that they acquire from their environments. Various devices can socialize on need bases to share data to make sense of it for their own requirements and benefits. Will Humanity be the religion of this Society? What will be called in future IoH, Internet of Humanity? hehehe...!
The IoT ecosystem is propounded to help people live and work better, smarter, cheaper, longer with complete control. Smart & Control are the big words here, so we are developing smart devices that can be controlled from anywhere, anytime, to do almost anything. Control our Homes/offices, Control someone else's home/office, control someone else's home/office from our home/office or from a coffee shop in Honululu, Antarctica or Mount Everest.
Since things will do all that we do so we don't have to anything that things can do, so we need to control things to do our things to do and this can be controlled from anywhere, this means I can do (almost) anything in India that I can do in India without needing to be in India and while I am enjoying the waterfalls of Laos, all that I need is an Internet, Fantastic!, this means loT of saving of labor cost, making cost of things cheaper, that means more disposable income, this means more rich people who have a lot of money and time to travel. Isn't that good news for the tourism industry?
What does Laos have to do to capture tourists, just provide internet to everyone everywhere in Laos, so the travelers can control their world while enjoying themselves in Laos, businessmen can have a real-time look into their companies, getting insights into everything from the performance of their systems, machines to their supply chains and operations?
Tourist can connect to restaurants to order food of their choice, the restaurants can connect to a distributor for their supply of groceries, the distributor can connect to farmers and farmers can connect to their crops and cattle, all with complete transparency where tourist can track down to the minutest detail of what are they eating, where is it coming from, which farm has produced it or the IP ID of the cow producing the milk that he is drinking, using what kind of genetically modified feed produced by which company in which country using what technology by which scientist.
Woof!, Total Control!
Connectivity was earlier through desktops through connected wires, difficult to move, laptops removed that limitation of movement, wireless improved the mobility of laptops. mobiles have now changed the bulkiness and accessibility problems, enabling all humans to remain connected to each other and to their devices 24 x 7, 365 Days through the internet. Phone Number is today Human ID, we can forget everything today but we can not forget to carry our phones with us all the times, we can track anything and anyone, from anywhere, at anytime, through phones and get in touch with them, all that the phone needs are to remain charged and remain connected to the internet. Today the most important travel accessory that is sold in China to the international travelers with the highest Gross monetary value is Wifi Egg. Which can be booked online and picked up and dropped at any airport in china at any time and the travelers are billed for the days of consumption, soon I guess with Virtual SIM this feature will be inbuilt in all the phones as a standard one.
Focusing deeper on our Travel, Tourism Industry what are the applications of IoT,
E-booking(Hotel, Airlines, Cruises, Hotels, Trains, Car Hire, Tour Guide, Museums, Sights), where the entire value chain's service providers and their inventories around the world are connected through their desktop and available over the internet to humans and other machines equivalently.
E-Passport - a New passport with embedded data chip, that can be read with machines in the way the machines wants to read them and make sense of standard data embedded on the chips according to their specific needs such as creating the time stamp.
E Checkin - Extension of e booking, the inventory and system is connected to a thing called check-in kiosk, now passenger can self-check-in at the airports and train stations without waiting in the queues or requirement of slow humans to punch in data.
E-baggage an extension of E kiosk, when you have issued your boarding pass same record is connected to baggage system, and the machine thing called Baggage loader is connected over the internet relays the data to the same passenger file record.
E- Visas - is a standalone system works on the same e booking patter where the record and file are generated in the database of the destination country and confirmation is sent over the internet to the traveler.
E-Gates - don't require any humans to check and click and count and tick and frown at the boarding gates, gates are fitted with the internet communication device and sensors that can count, click, beep, record, scan as well as block access, all the data is sent over the internet and updated in various databases. When we arrive at the destination the gate at the destination connects over the internet to the data file updated by the gates at the departure to varify the time stamps and other points to confirm the legitimacy and allow entry, else they won't open for you and you will be taken away by the security,
Hmm, Security guys still have lots of things to do! So in the future, we will have muscular security officers on the border entrances rather than fragile immigration officers.
Smart Hotels - that are equipped with smart thermostats, smart lights, smart appliances, connecting heating, lighting, door keys, that can be controlled remotely with smartphones, before and after check-in.
Intelligent touring with wearable devices that are loaded with sensors and software that can analyse and collect user location for safety, improving first responder's response times during emergencies by providing optimum location, route to location and tracking vital signs in life-threating situation and sites, so one is ever stuck in snow, or in gorges or in jungles or stranded on islands.
So, in summary, the IoT of things can access information from anywhere at any time on any device resulting in improved communication between connected devices and humans, transferring data packets over connected networks saving a lot of time and money while improving the quality of business services without the need for human intervention,
However, as the number of devices increases to reach gazillions, more information is shared between them amounting to maybe zillions terabytes, requiring the need for more space to store data on gigantic clouds, exposing the data i.e information, which may also be confidential information that travels with the travelers across the borders, interpreted and intercepted by billions of users in their thousands of languages, for magnitude of reasons, to the potential risk of stealing and potential threat to privacy, not just that imagine if one device over this huge global connected internet is corrupted or hacked to falsify the information. This poses a new challenge in the coming times for the modern travel industry;
a) managing stakeholders who do not comprehend all this, i.e on the other side of the digital divide.
b) managing the complexity of securely managing devices,
c) interpretation of the complex data generated to make simple sense.
d) having one standard across the world, to manage all this complexity and keeping the movement of people seamless, even making is more enjoyable by making it less stressful and more consumable.
Are we not dealing with an amazing IoT in travel, that brings excitement to us in the future through its opportunities and challenges?
Are we ready? Is our travel, tourism and hospitality industry ready?
Do we have enough trained humans in the industry to take care of this?
Doesn't our tourism education system need to be changed to address this future in the present?
Internet, the interconnected networks of information, I don't need to explain
Things here earlier referred to like anything and now as everything, such as a device, plant, animal, humans or object. with only one condition that it should have an ability to be assigned an IP address so that it can transfer data over the internet.
So a thing that can transfer data over the internet and the internet as a communication medium are together referred to as the Internet of Things.
We understand manmade objects can be built-in with capabilities of being able to transfer data but how can a man, plant or animal transfer data.
They can with the use of chips and wearable devices.
Archives say that Kevin Ashton of MIT was the first one to use this term and proposed the convergence of wireless communication technology and microelectronic mechanical systems (MEMS), enabling data generated by the machines to be available to drive improvements, unifying the strengths of operational technology and information technology.
Now the available technology has evolved and matured to be used for a variety of applications, machine to machine, machine to humans and also humans to humans, in almost all industries to better understand customers, which improves business decisions, then enable businesses to develop and deliver enhanced products and services to the customers and increase the value of business.
All regulated without human intervention. Wow!
Understand the scope of IoT, billions of people using trillion of things each somehow connected to one another through internet needing gazillions of Ip addresses, If IP address is a new ID protocol for everything, one day all humans in the world will have a unique IP Id? Isn't that a dream?
One ID, One Currency, One Economy, One Civilization, One World. Ooh, la la!
We understand the set of interrelated objects participating in one common process as an ecosystem, so IoT is an ecosystem which consists of web-enabled devices, that use embedded sensors, processors and communication hardware to collect, send and process data that they acquire from their environments. Various devices can socialize on need bases to share data to make sense of it for their own requirements and benefits. Will Humanity be the religion of this Society? What will be called in future IoH, Internet of Humanity? hehehe...!
The IoT ecosystem is propounded to help people live and work better, smarter, cheaper, longer with complete control. Smart & Control are the big words here, so we are developing smart devices that can be controlled from anywhere, anytime, to do almost anything. Control our Homes/offices, Control someone else's home/office, control someone else's home/office from our home/office or from a coffee shop in Honululu, Antarctica or Mount Everest.
Since things will do all that we do so we don't have to anything that things can do, so we need to control things to do our things to do and this can be controlled from anywhere, this means I can do (almost) anything in India that I can do in India without needing to be in India and while I am enjoying the waterfalls of Laos, all that I need is an Internet, Fantastic!, this means loT of saving of labor cost, making cost of things cheaper, that means more disposable income, this means more rich people who have a lot of money and time to travel. Isn't that good news for the tourism industry?
What does Laos have to do to capture tourists, just provide internet to everyone everywhere in Laos, so the travelers can control their world while enjoying themselves in Laos, businessmen can have a real-time look into their companies, getting insights into everything from the performance of their systems, machines to their supply chains and operations?
Tourist can connect to restaurants to order food of their choice, the restaurants can connect to a distributor for their supply of groceries, the distributor can connect to farmers and farmers can connect to their crops and cattle, all with complete transparency where tourist can track down to the minutest detail of what are they eating, where is it coming from, which farm has produced it or the IP ID of the cow producing the milk that he is drinking, using what kind of genetically modified feed produced by which company in which country using what technology by which scientist.
Woof!, Total Control!
Connectivity was earlier through desktops through connected wires, difficult to move, laptops removed that limitation of movement, wireless improved the mobility of laptops. mobiles have now changed the bulkiness and accessibility problems, enabling all humans to remain connected to each other and to their devices 24 x 7, 365 Days through the internet. Phone Number is today Human ID, we can forget everything today but we can not forget to carry our phones with us all the times, we can track anything and anyone, from anywhere, at anytime, through phones and get in touch with them, all that the phone needs are to remain charged and remain connected to the internet. Today the most important travel accessory that is sold in China to the international travelers with the highest Gross monetary value is Wifi Egg. Which can be booked online and picked up and dropped at any airport in china at any time and the travelers are billed for the days of consumption, soon I guess with Virtual SIM this feature will be inbuilt in all the phones as a standard one.
Focusing deeper on our Travel, Tourism Industry what are the applications of IoT,
E-booking(Hotel, Airlines, Cruises, Hotels, Trains, Car Hire, Tour Guide, Museums, Sights), where the entire value chain's service providers and their inventories around the world are connected through their desktop and available over the internet to humans and other machines equivalently.
E-Passport - a New passport with embedded data chip, that can be read with machines in the way the machines wants to read them and make sense of standard data embedded on the chips according to their specific needs such as creating the time stamp.
E Checkin - Extension of e booking, the inventory and system is connected to a thing called check-in kiosk, now passenger can self-check-in at the airports and train stations without waiting in the queues or requirement of slow humans to punch in data.
E-baggage an extension of E kiosk, when you have issued your boarding pass same record is connected to baggage system, and the machine thing called Baggage loader is connected over the internet relays the data to the same passenger file record.
E- Visas - is a standalone system works on the same e booking patter where the record and file are generated in the database of the destination country and confirmation is sent over the internet to the traveler.
E-Gates - don't require any humans to check and click and count and tick and frown at the boarding gates, gates are fitted with the internet communication device and sensors that can count, click, beep, record, scan as well as block access, all the data is sent over the internet and updated in various databases. When we arrive at the destination the gate at the destination connects over the internet to the data file updated by the gates at the departure to varify the time stamps and other points to confirm the legitimacy and allow entry, else they won't open for you and you will be taken away by the security,
Hmm, Security guys still have lots of things to do! So in the future, we will have muscular security officers on the border entrances rather than fragile immigration officers.
Smart Hotels - that are equipped with smart thermostats, smart lights, smart appliances, connecting heating, lighting, door keys, that can be controlled remotely with smartphones, before and after check-in.
Intelligent touring with wearable devices that are loaded with sensors and software that can analyse and collect user location for safety, improving first responder's response times during emergencies by providing optimum location, route to location and tracking vital signs in life-threating situation and sites, so one is ever stuck in snow, or in gorges or in jungles or stranded on islands.
So, in summary, the IoT of things can access information from anywhere at any time on any device resulting in improved communication between connected devices and humans, transferring data packets over connected networks saving a lot of time and money while improving the quality of business services without the need for human intervention,
However, as the number of devices increases to reach gazillions, more information is shared between them amounting to maybe zillions terabytes, requiring the need for more space to store data on gigantic clouds, exposing the data i.e information, which may also be confidential information that travels with the travelers across the borders, interpreted and intercepted by billions of users in their thousands of languages, for magnitude of reasons, to the potential risk of stealing and potential threat to privacy, not just that imagine if one device over this huge global connected internet is corrupted or hacked to falsify the information. This poses a new challenge in the coming times for the modern travel industry;
a) managing stakeholders who do not comprehend all this, i.e on the other side of the digital divide.
b) managing the complexity of securely managing devices,
c) interpretation of the complex data generated to make simple sense.
d) having one standard across the world, to manage all this complexity and keeping the movement of people seamless, even making is more enjoyable by making it less stressful and more consumable.
Are we not dealing with an amazing IoT in travel, that brings excitement to us in the future through its opportunities and challenges?
Are we ready? Is our travel, tourism and hospitality industry ready?
Do we have enough trained humans in the industry to take care of this?
Doesn't our tourism education system need to be changed to address this future in the present?
For Capitalists, this means billion-dollar opportunity, for environmentalist, this means an opportunity to reduce heavy carbon footprints, for anthropologists, for sociologists, for technologists, all in all, this is great news, is it so for a poor, uneducated, handicraft worker, making clay toy souvenirs, in some remote village of India, which doesn't even have electricity, or schools, or doesn't even know how to write IoT, what this opportunity is for him? Who will hold his hand to take him on a developmental path or will he remain subject to exploitation as ever with every revolution that has happened in the past. How will they be fit to survive?
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