mr. edelstein: definitely yes. mr. davis: definitely yes. the one thing i would add, i think it is important to define what we need to accomplish to address the things you described, but also to allow technology to evolve quickly. evolves but it is still not installed, we should mandate it is installed. mr. davis: we should define requirements to make your that things are secure. mr. kass: we need the appropriate controls, but i agree we need to do it any very balanced way that does not kill innovation, innovation is like a waccamaw, it will pop up someplace else, so we need a way of ensuring to mention that there are controls in place, it is not setting innovation, but rather helping it. >> but having it over the years, people can get away with out protections against privacy, it saves money. whack a bad person. mr. kass: it is innovation. somebody is going to innovate and it needs to be us. >> at the same time, we then have to tell people who do not want to install the safety protections that they have to do it. mr. kass: fair enough. >> t

mr. edelstein: again, it is not a regulatory issue, but more of an operational issue and i think that it is starting to come together rather quickly in many states throughout the country. sen. fischer: mr. davis. mr. davis: i think you are asking a great question. let me touch on a couple of things. i want to applaud the work that has been done on the digit act and the goal is trying to achieve, i think it is a very important direction for us to be taken with regard to the internet of things. you ask an interesting question about the history, in terms of why we have the silos and i think it has been because of the optimization that is needed in those industries. we need to optimize what is happening in shipping come in retail, in the network infrastructure, so that is a very natural evolution. but as we think ford around the internet of things, that will be one of our challenges to scale, to have local optimization, because we see that these technologies need to create the connectivity between things and the datacenter cloud that will need to become more common. that is why we are advocat

edelstein. do you think you should make owner aware of driving data and providing owners the right to say no to data collection without losing access to key navigation and other features? >> yes. >> mr. davis? >> yes. >> mr. kass? >> yes and generally speaking with all of the information that's going to be available of this concept of opting out, i think it is important. >> excellent. >> thank you. >> yes. >> it is important to collect the information you need and make sure consumers know what you are sharing. >> thank you. >> i think it is a great balance here and not all good >> like any technologies there is the bad as well. we have to make sure we build in the protection at the same time that we build in the opportunities. if we do that, i think we are responsible as policymakers. i thank you members of the chair and i thank you for attending this hearing. >> doctor, edelstein, you discussed several innovative projects that you are working on. you mentioned of sensors for the brooklyn bridge for cracks. what's the impact of realtime data monitoring of our nation's transportation and assets as it relates to public spending on maintenance. >> yeah, we are not monitoring the brookl