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Christophe Deschamps was watching a basketball game with his wife and three children when he received an alert on his smartphone.
The home security system told him something was wrong, so he quickly accessed the video feed on his phone.
"I could see smoke," he says. Their home, in the Wallonia region of southern Belgium, was on fire.
The family's thoughts immediately turned to their two Bernese Mountain dogs - Lisbonne and Hawaii - locked in the garage. A terrible family tragedy was threatening to unfold.
The video images now showed the smoke getting thicker and brightness coming from flames off-camera.
The fire alarm had already alerted the firefighters, so the Deschamps family rushed home as quickly as they could.
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Fortunately, Lisbonne and Hawaii were saved with just 20cm of air left to breathe above the floor of the smoke-filled garage. But the fire damage to the house took six months to repair.The dogs' lucky escape was due to the indoor security camera Christophe had installed.
So, the Internet of Things (IoT) is really a good thing.
(Score: 3, Funny) by VLM on Tuesday May 09 2017, @01:45PM (2 children)
the IR signature of the two dogs says they are humping each other in the garage.
Sooner or later we're gonna have IoT where the service revenue plan is going to involve posting user data like the above to exotic pr0n sites.
Also you know the stereotype of every fire department has the secret firebug arsonist on the squad who literally gets off from house fires, well, usually thats a little rough on the local population not to mention the local home insurance agent, but if he could just pay some money to join a website full of IoT video recordings of house fires, sure that dude is pretty weird but its a net gain to society if the weirdo doesn't set our house on fire and we get free or subsidized by his subscription in house fire detection monitoring. And obviously the weirdo is also going to be happy.
There's probably weirdos who get off watching sewers back up. I mean as a variant of rule 34 there's weirdos who get off from everything. So it would be possible to start an IoT company to use a video camera to monitor a sewer drain and the instant it starts backing up they'd alert you. Now thats not free to provide, but don't forget the weirdos who are "stimulated" by watching sewers back up, they'll pay to join a site to watch historical recordings. So I get free or at least discounted 24x7 sewer video monitoring and alerting, the weirdo is happy, sounds good to me.
What I need to find is someone who gets off on kernel panics and network unable to ping. Then I could record that stuff and sell it to weirdos and use their subscription fees to fund my 24x7 monitoring system...
Hmm... might be on to something here. Or on something. Either way its an interesting idea. Or an interesting sci fi book plot.
(Score: 2) by SomeGuy on Tuesday May 09 2017, @02:47PM (1 child)
How about visible-through-pants-bright-blue-LED cock jewelry with built in camera that automatically takes dick picks and uploads them to teh clouds while comparing their friends dick sizes in real times. Bring a whole new meaning to the word "Internet of Things".
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Aw shit! That would actually sell like hotcakes! WHAT HAVE I DONE?!?!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 10 2017, @07:01PM
Yep, if anything, you are some 10 years too early for that but we are getting there.