Friday, March 12, 2004

Life in Real-Time
Got Started to write some thing on the Real-Time Enterprise. Crazy ! My Blog at the Blog-city was down for some "maintenance". I created the new accnt at Blogger in real-time... so this is flags a symbolic start for my real-time stuff !.... Times are getting really challenging...Ubiquitous Information Everywhere is the phenomenon, we are facing. Ever wondered which number is racing with the Human population of the world ?
Answer is the mobile community which is growing exponentially...RFIDs are competing with the mobile phones and would go way ahead of Mobile community number.

I was having Pepsi-Zero (my lingo for Diet Pepsi)...was wondering what is the "Best Before" date n had to gymnastics with the open can.Lets zoom in to future....It is year 2008 Feb, I am working on a Mission Critical Architecture Plan .... a fellow gets me the canned food n Coke.. Strange!! the Canned food contains only the Name of the food n nothing else... I press the RFID scan button on my watch n it reads the nutrition details,Best Before date, all other info including an advertisement of a "Try Similar Stuff". So the food is e-Tagged and this saves a phenomenal amout of cost to the manfacturing company. The company gets rid of the Label Printing costs and other details. The canned food can be read no matter whether they are in line of sight or not (Unlike the barcode).

On the way Back home, I realized that I need to pick up a gift for my Dad as his B'day was approaching... I
am at, Down town Mountain View, Books Inc. As I am walking around, My Watch beeps... and I see a list of
Books (Depending on my previous purchases). Alas ! I bought book only once @ Books inc during the last three years of stay. Then How did it know abt my preferences..I asked the same question to the Store Manager n He said they r InfoE("Info Everywhere") Accredited Center. Thats answered by question.

What is "Info Everywhere" ? Info Everywhere is a Service Oriented Business Concept that plugs the Ubiquitous Information into day-to-day life. All the Big Players of e-Commerce like eBay,Amazon,BestBuy,Staples are partnered with them. InfE tracks all the user purchaes online(InfoE is Federal Trading Comission's Information Privacy Complaint that assures the maximum privacy to the data for better user service). InfE maintains the User Data in a well classified structure (For every user they Maintain the Books,Electronics and further classifications) and using the Roll-Up n Drill down funda of Data mining and Information Engineering ( A patented concept of InfoE) they hit the bull's eye).

I see a future where all the things of our day to day life start talking. All the Equipment geared with RFID readers will have a UUID (Unique Universal ID) . The Users when registering at the e-Com giants have to sense their watches or RFID readres at the PC/Laptop/Pokcet Computer's RFID reader (which itself has a UUID). The UUID will be captured and would be set as a primary index for the user( No 2 RFID readers in the world will have the same UUID Similar Funda of MAC addresses of NIC). So when I am getting into InfoE Accredited center.The InfoE's patented device reads the UUID from the RFID reader and sends in it to the Server Silos for info retrieval(Depending on the Shop i.e if it is a Book Shop UUID+ Code for the Book category would go to the Server) this would enable in retrieving only the required info. The info will be broadcasted in the shop and the Books(RFID in them) depending on the match with my previous historical information will "talk to me" ( to my RFID reader) n when I am walking down the aisles of book shop, I will be stopped by the books of my interest,the electornic way. Similar would be the case with other shops too. This would enable an individual to save time and at the same time get the right thing at the right time. Rathern than doing things right ! It would enable us do the right things..

Back to 2004. I see this as a very potential concept that would save a lot of time in our day to day life.Waiting to talk the e-Way. Enhance this concept....

My Lil brain is back to it's crazy workshop......
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Prasanna can be reached at rvprasanna AT Yahoo DOT com. Prasanna is a budding Masters Student at the Carnegie Mellon University.













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