CES opens today with connected objects – El Colombiano

Look around, see how many electronic devices? Maybe a cell phone, a tablet or laptop, but there are the cars, the TV, microwave, alarm clock, thermostat and other devices. By the time it comes to individual devices, but many of these devices have the potential to be smarter if they communicate with each other and create something that has been called the Internet of Things.

To display that future, there is no better place than the electronics show in Las Vegas, formerly known as Consumer Electronics Show and is now known as CES, begins today and is where large and small companies show their new smart devices.

These range from seemingly trivial, for example, umbrellas alert their owners that left forgotten; to be useful, you can not deny, as new navigation devices which show the way forward projected into the windshield, and thus no need to remove the front view.

According to the McKinsey Global Institute, a division of the consulting giant McKinsey & amp; Co., the value created by connecting together devices in the world could reach 11 billion dollars a year by 2025: an amazing amount, accounting for more than half of the economic output of the United States in a year.

Most of the value comes from industrial uses, such as cleaner for the smarter use of energy and less work stoppage in factories maintenance with intelligent air.

However, it is expected to be billions of dollars in profits from the sales to consumers: safer streets thanks to autonomous cars that drive better robots which will take care of household chores and health monitors that let you know when our body needs medical attention.

Several companies are to unveil a series of autonomous vehicles with sensors, computer maps and lasers capable of detecting adjacent objects.

“It’s something you can use today. It is a technology that is more or less ready, “said Amnon Shashua , director of Mobileye, an Israeli company that builds cars with cameras that help process traffic information.

Of course must define many civil and legal aspects, and cyber controls have not been improved at all. Still, Shashua and other innovative predict that within 5 years humans may be mounted on a carriage drive alone.

At least three car companies will show new car at CES, which gradually It is becoming an exhibition event of the most modern vehicles.

Volkswagen showcase its Microbus powered by batteries, which could hit the market in 2017. General Motors will showcase its electric vehicle Chevrolet Bolt, and Faraday Future plans to develop a futuristic race car.

Of course, people have been making great projections for the Internet of things for years, but progress remains slow and patchy. Major technology companies may be hampering their intention interaction with devices from other companies, for simple reasons of business.