Skift Take
The irony that circuits and code will make travel more personal is not lost on us, but we look forward to letting the Internet of Stuff do its thing.
Beware buzzwords—there be monsters! But, as we experienced walking round the exhibits at the SITA Air Transport IT Summit (ATIS) in Brussels this week, at least one popular buzz-phrase promises to make air travel much less nerve wracking.
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a big concept to get one's head around. It's intimidating because its possibilities are virtually limitless. Even tech people haven't quite figured out how far IoT could reach. Today, it's a bustling, noisy, playground of ideas, but tomorrow it could become a cool, calm, and collected new reality.
In practical terms, the IoT s links up devices and shares relevant data, centered on an individual's experiential needs in the context of time, place, and application. Rather than bombard us with disorienting suggestions and reminders on our personal digital devices, the IoT infrastructure will recognize us as individual. It will tailor its interactions with us around our preferences. It will anticipate our needs and make relevan
