A city that seems smart one moment can look like the dumbest thing alive the next moment. All it takes is one little cloud outage.
We’ve taken cloud outages in stride. After all, how often does it really matter if you place an Amazon order now or in an hour or two? But what if the cloud locks or unlocks your front door?
Fainting ladies
I’ve been reading up on “smart cities.” Anthony Townsend, in his article “Smart Cities: Buggy and Brittle” — from 2013 and still fresh — says yes, worry. Start with the cellular networks.
… Read the rest “Dumbstruck city: big, brittle, not so smart”Cellular networks … are the fainting ladies of the network world — when the heat is on, they’re the first to go down and make the biggest fuss as they do so.