coming up next our technology magazine series shift living in the digital age i'm helena hong frey i'll be back with more well news day at the top of the hour thanks for your company facing. i'm not going to think that well i guess sometimes i am but there's them nothing with that. thinks deep into the german culture of looking at the stereotypes question any of think the future of the country that i know not. yet you don't seem to think for this grandmother. it's all about who am. i my job join me to meet the gentleman from d.w. . post the w's crime fighters are back to africa's most successful

radio drama series continues in the only disowns are available online and of course you can share and discuss on w. africa's facebook page and other social media platforms to crime fighters to mean no. fridges that know was at the door talking losses and robots that mow the lawn on their own smart devices are meant to make our lives easier but they also gathering all private data the internet of things this month but how secure is it i want topics today on shift . i old see all the internet all things is a network of devices that can communicate via built in many computers for example has. great advances that money to and regulate room temperature that can save

heating costs of that can clean is that operate independently can save us time boys assistance always have an open it for us and can even tell other devices what we want by the way what do you think alexa is used most for they've limp head of amazon hardware has some interesting news customers ask echo over a 1000000000 times a year. this alexa what time is a. clock. the internet of things has a lot more to offer from time sensors that measure air quality to networks to surveillance systems for industrial plants a recent study expects that over 50000000000 devices and sensors will be connected by 2022 professor from the visited specializes in the internet of things. professor much has been studying the internet of things

for over 10 years and. he's fascinated by the idea of making everyday objects smart. consider the light bulb and you can control it with a switch on the wall or you could use your phone. you might want to add features like making the light flash when a storm warning is issued. but then your light needs to be able to receive that information from the web it's not stored locally. so your light has to be able to communicate with the cloud. the industry can assist smart devices to make life easier like with autonomy. let it. run on their own and automatically adjust the room temperature is everyone has left the house. a smart bridge that monitors which groceries are running out

can be very inconvenient imagine being out of butter and then the doorbell rings with a fresh delivery of more butter but this also lets companies analyze which products you consume. the data collected in transmitted is mostly invisible to ordinary users the same goes for the stock where built into their devices. says to the data collected and in the worst case who can remotely control the smart devices these are the largest concerns me this has with this new technology. right now the biggest challenge the internet of things faces is security and privacy imagine someone with access to your stove they could cause it to overheat and maybe even start a fire in your home. or someone with control over a power plant could cut the power to an entire city.

the possibilities seem endless but the risks involved and not to be taken lightly users should think twice about how much small technology they want in their homes families 11 is not too worried they enjoy the convenience and futuristic this modern network provides or would like to see even more technology online at home my i want my house to be able to tell when i get out of bed when i come downstairs i want my favorite radio station to start playing their favorite coffee brewing and if it's cold outside my car to automatically start heating up and it. can already remotely control who has access to his home he has a smart door his children don't need a key to get in they simply scan their fingerprints. i can see if my kids are home from them this camera has facial recognition.

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they all had to confess to analyzing. no matter how the conversations were. these digital help always on. times pick up on. human constantly checking in. to. understand speech impediments and. now people using this technology. now it's become. so. privacy. i default my

privacy being the default setting people who don't mind their actions being recorded to improve the experience can still change their settings or use a smart technology at home should really know what they're dealing with security expert martin shuttle believes small technology required smart handling the money found for to fuel responsible for a household full of smart devices then you've basically become a system administrator like the ones that many choose data centers for via acknowledge that means you need to treat your home like one catalog in the devices you're installing security patches checking for software updates changing passwords and perhaps even setting up protocols like to make sure there were no hacking attempts to inflation and clings for. good point security analysts say the number of cyber attacks on iraqi devices is on the rise in the 1st half of 29000 there were more than 2900000000 hacking attempts 3 times more than last year

one hacker showed us how simple hacking and be. just do your floors. says spy on you. 3 have commandeered the device gaining access was pretty straightforward. by this manufacture i connected through. a slight change the source code was all it took to access the controls in camera. the vacuum cleaner receives its commands through a built in microcontroller connected to the internet. security gaps make the entire network devices vulnerable. i can start. with and then i can look which device is there. to move to do. so it's

a related. but there is no limit the problem is just one device can compromise the entire system no matter if it's a home or industrial network as soon as get into one device they have access to all secure devices on the network and they can reprogram those devices to launch new attacks that makes it all the more important to understand the technology behind the internet of things but recommends open source solutions they don't rely on just one manufacturer for security or data protection. with bold names riot. but riot is meant to be the new global operating system for the internet of things we provide the users need for that. if you're interested in the internet of things and want to make your devices smart then it's important to use open source solutions that aren't bound to a specific manufacturer. and always be aware of which apps you're using and

what private data they require. one possible solution is the operating system ryan developed a 3 year appeal in universities the right source code is openly accessible so anyone can check it and modify it to their own needs but that won't let users program their own devices yet they need other apps to do that. much as they wish wants to offer these apps on graph store and app store for the internet of things currently it's still being tested but in the future it will let users download all kinds of apps for their smart devices so they can individually tailor their devices features. for the internet of things operates across a lot of different devices so it's not easy to make sure the software always runs

smoothly there's not just 3 or 4 platforms to consider there's thousands but ideally you want your software to run on all of them. using. riot focuses on small processors with low storage capacity and performance and minimal mostly battery power and energy consumption there's 2 reasons why much yes neelesh prefers these kinds of applications. about that well 1st of all every object requires a visible space that you might not always have. secondly each additional component costs extra when you manufacture small scale devices you can't use too much space and you need to be cost effective. the industry is also very interested in open source io t. technology one car manufacturer is currently testing digital keys that run with a riot operating system smarts and say. one main software that keeps my network safe and make sure my o.t.

devices work together smoothly that's how i would want my smart home to be a reality is a big deal. friend manufacturers are reluctant to hand over their software and aside from that i think i owe g.d. vies this should offer more than just convenience they should promote sustainability a smart thermostat that helps save energy great feed of a dog no thanks otherwise the end of the things becomes the internet of jock what's your opinion do you want your data data be join the discussion for example shia buy and see are there.

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