Friday, June 20, 2014

Amazon Firefly Technology and Infrastructure Asset Management


The new Amazon Fire phone was demonstrated yesterday.  The Firefly software embedded in the Fire phone has huge potential for asset management.  Take a picture of a pump at a lift station and the software recognizes the pump.  You could then access the operations manual.  Or take a picture of a manhole, it knows the particular manhole, and up comes the asset registry associated with manhole.  It has the ability to greatly improve linking the visual nature of asset management (i.e., a picture of a fire hydrant) with critical information (i.e., age, manufacturer, maintenance history).

Amazon sees the Firefly technology in the context of an improved shopping experience.  The technology also has much broader capabilities - including infrastructure asset management - which could improve the efficiency and effectiveness of how you manage the physical world.

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