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by thereisnospork
2152 days ago
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I don't think it should be a protocol so much as 'english-ish'. So not a framework which defines a lightbulb (and every other IOT), but a defining human/NLP readable language so a human/alexa can have a conversation with an arbitrary device[0]. Trying to be rigid in definition for the scope of all IoT is madness[1], and imo this is where the future of the NLP AI is: acting as a fuzzy intermediary between people and 'smart' devices to save users and devs both from that madness. [0]
>send 10.10.10.143 'what are you' >> "A light bulb serial number ######" > 'list commands' >> on() | off() | color(int red, int green, int blue) | strobe(frequency) >help color >>"""description of color function""" etc. Where there isn't a predefinition for say 'strobe' specced anywhere, or 'light bulb' for that matter, but a person or reasonably intelligent AI can work it out from context. There does need to be a bit of a framework and around 'what are you' and 'list commands' for this to work. I hope I've explained this well, but it doesn't seem far off for an AI to credibly facilitate the bulk of human-smart device interaction with a little bit of help breaking the ice. [1] As you mentioned, scoping even a light switch without feature creep is a challenge. |
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The ESP8266 microchip is very popular for use with consumer IoT, because it includes not only a microprocessor with full TCP/IP software stack included, but also WiFi hardware that's compatible with most consumer WiFi systems, all on a 5mm x 5mm x 1mm IC. However, it doesn't even have enough computation power to implement 802.11x WiFi certificate authentication for standard enterprise WiFi environments. There's no hope for implementing an NLP DNN AI on chips like this. You'd "need" to upgrade from a $2 microchip to a $100 IoT Edge AI chip like Coral or Jetson, and now each of your $30 IoT light switches would cost $130 instead and consume much more power.
You could instead have a pretty standard telnet access with 'help' functions like most *nix programs have, but enabling any kind of telnet/SSH is often a big security risk with IoT devices.