Scenario 1
Jack lives in a house in a road in a small estate. In the estate there is a giant food locker which the local supermarkets deliver food to. Each locker belongs to each household on the estate.
When Jack sees stocks are getting low, he goes to his kitchen wall digital device and looks for food he wants and orders it.
However, some of the homes of the city have cupboards with sensors that detect how much food is on the shelf of the cupboard by the weight of each shelf in the cupboard. Each shelf is allotted different food stuffs. This information is sent to local supermarkets. When the processor on the food lorry receives data that a shelf is empty in one of the homes that has signed up for such a service, the food delivery truck drives to the home and automatically delivers the required amount and type of food required. Either to a hole-in-the-wall on the side of the building or an outside, communal food safe with secure lockers.
Jack's chosen supermarket delivers the food while Jack is at work. When Jack gets home, he goes to the local refrigerated food locker system and using his private code opens the locker and inside finds a box of food.
He then takes the box of food to his kitchen and unpacks it.
Scenario 2
Jack has been eating too much food lately and is overweight. He decides to do more exercise but does not have the time. He has read that walking more will help him burn calories. So Jack purchases a pair of shoes with a sensor in the heel. This sensor is connected to Jack’s digital wall calendar (the same one that is connected to his food locker and supermarket delivery service).
After a few days of wearing his new shoes, Jack looks at his digital wall calendar and it tells him how many footsteps he has taken in the last few days. It tells him how many he needs to do to burn more calories. So, instead of driving to his friends house that evening he decides to walk. However it is a bit far but there is a bus stop on the way. If Jack walks to the bus stop and gets the bus the rest of the way he will have burned enough calories.
Scenario 3
Jack lives on his own and once flooded the bathroom because he left the tap running to fill the bath and then went to the kitchen. So he got a flooding band fitted to his bath. After the band was fitted, whenever the water reached a certain height and the band detected the water the taps would stop. An alarm would tell Jack the bath was ready.
Scenario 4
In Jack’s road there are waste bins that get filled up with rubbish by all the residents. Whenever the bins get full of rubbish the lids cannot close properly which means that there is a gap between the sensors attached to the lid of the bins and the rim of the top of the lids. This gap sends a message to the local waste disposal office who then send a van to pick up the rubbish and empty the bins. This system saves the local council having to run too many trips to visit residential sites where the bins are not yet full.
Scenario 5
Jack gets into his car. He realizes the fuel is low. He drives to to petrol station and parks up next to the pump. Jack presses a button inside his car and the petrol cap flips open. The laser guided petrol pump lines up and automatically inserts into the petrol hole on the side of Jack’s car and fills up the petrol tank.
Jack’s car contains an electronic wallet that is automatically charged by the petrol pump. Money is sent to the petrol pump by WiFi. Once payment is verified, Jack drives away.
Scenario 6
Jack pays no road tax on his car. All roads have sensors that read a ‘black box’ inside Jacks car via WiFi. Jack is only charged for each mile he drives.
Whenever Jack has to pass through a toll gate/toll bridge his car is automatically charge by electronic means via WiFi. Jack is able to go from A to B without having to get out his car.
Scenario 7
Jack lives in a society with no central government. Every political decision is made by millions of voters each day.
Every citizen has the option of casting a vote on their smartphone each day. Millions of voters cast their votes on taxation, education, policing etc.
Jack decides that taxes are too low as there does not seem to be enough money in public services. He casts his vote on the voting app at 40%. However, millions of other voters have cast their votes and currently the average voter rate of overall taxation stands at 38.86%.
Each citizen is allowed to suggest a policy or policy change. Once enough interest is shown then the policy change is put to millions of voters. If the policy change wins over 50% of the vote, then this result is sent to all government institutions: Police, magistrates, Judges etc.
The people have become the politicians.
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Internet of Things/Internet of Everything
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The above examples may never happen. What they do is refer to or describe the possibilities coming in the future where everything and everybody is connected to the internet.
