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In this week’s O’Reilly Radar Podcast,
O’Reilly’s Mac Slocum chats with Alasdair Allan, an astrophysicist and director
at Babilim Light Industries. In their wide-ranging conversation, Allan talks
about the data coming out of the New Horizons Pluto flyby, the future of “personal
space programs,” and why Bluetooth LE (BLE) is cracking open the Internet of
Things.
Here are a few highlights from their
conversation:
The only thing Bluetooth LE shares with
traditional Bluetooth is the name.
Bluetooth LE, now that Google Android
also supports it, has solved the 50% problem. … Now that all of the smartphones
in the world have Bluetooth LE, or at least the more modern ones, there is a
very easy way to produce low-power devices — wearables, embedded sensors, all
of that sort of stuff — that anyone can access with a smart phone.
The Internet of Things is neither about
the Internet, nor really the things. I much prefer the academic term
“ubiquitous computing,” but no one really seems to want to use that, which is
somewhat unfortunate.
You don’t have to worry about power, and
that can be a real lever to open up the wearables market in the same way the
BLE was a lever to open the IoT market.
There are hardly any impact craters on
the surface of Pluto, so that means that the surface itself is active. … Also,
there’s these huge mountain ranges, three-and-a-half-thousand meters tall — and
they’re pointy. There is no way the mountains on Pluto should be pointy.
Over the next couple of years, the small
satellite market is really going to take off. … Within the next five years,
we’ll see a vast increase in the number of people building their own
satellites. … I think the phrase ‘personal space program’ is coming soon.
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