The Internet of Everything: Invisibility in your Kitchen

In addition to my own posts, I also write for CloudTweaks, an authority on cloud computing. Clooudtweaks is currently working with Cisco who have released and exciting new thought leadership platform called InnovateThink. I have been asked to contribute some material to this project, and it is an honor to do so.

My thirds article discusses the ways in which the Internet of Everything can change one of the most intimate places in your home: your kitchen, and the challenges it faces to truly succeed there. Here is an excerpt:

What could be simpler than opening the fridge and grabbing yourself a snack? That’s the challenge for designers and engineers who are looking to bring the Internet of Everything into the kitchen. Eating food is based largely on sensations of hunger, an age-old instinct which is pretty difficult to ignore. As for preparing food, people either enjoy it or they hate it. Either way, when preparing to integrate a kitchen into the Internet of Everything sphere it is important to realize that the kitchen is an area where emotions rule, not facts.

People go to the kitchen when they are hungry. They meet in the kitchen during parties. Many take pride in cooking from recipes handed down through the generations. A kitchen is a hearth; it is a place for being human, and as such the often highly practical, yet overly logical inventions that have been designed for the kitchen over the decades face steep opposition from the simple fact that if it needs to be thought about, that’s one step too many.

To read the full post, please visit CloudTweaks here.