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IoT startup Trillbit has a big idea with profound implications for the Internet of Things, and by extension, for all of us.\u00a0 The company is currently designing a system called “Trill Tones” that will create a mesh of ultrasonic pulses into a type of sound that the human ear won’t be able to register but a wide range of smart devices could detect.<\/p>\n
A vast number of smart devices already have speakers and microphones incorporated into their designs. In the absence of a common universal connection protocol for the Internet of Things, the speakers and mics themselves could fulfill the task, performing double duty.<\/p>\n
The idea is that the speakers on existing devices could generate and send the sounds, while corresponding mics on other nearby machines could receive them, initiating a call and response pattern between devices. For example, your smartphone could send a sound pulse to your smart lock, which would cause it to automatically unlock as you approached.<\/p>\n
As intriguing as the example above is, the company’s biggest push is into retail spaces that currently use Bluetooth beaconing.\u00a0 Trillbit is gambling that its Trill Tone technology is a superior approach of targeting consumers passing through a retail environment.\u00a0 The equipment, in the form of the store’s PA system’s speakers, is already done.\u00a0 They would simply leverage what’s already there.<\/p>\n
It’s a bold idea, but there’s another component that makes it compelling indeed:\u00a0 The lack of network dependency.\u00a0 After all, almost everyone on the planet has a smartphone these days.\u00a0 In fact, there are more smartphones in service today than there are people.<\/p>\n
Transmissions from one device to another are highly secure because there aren’t any \u00a0gateways or routing bottlenecks. The cost to deploy a system like this is virtually nil, again, because it simply leverages what’s already in place.<\/p>\n
Time will tell if the idea bears fruit, but we have to admit it has our attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
IoT startup Trillbit has a big idea with profound implications for the Internet of Things, and by extension, for all of us.\u00a0 The company is currently designing a system called “Trill Tones” that will create a mesh of ultrasonic pulses into a type of sound that the human ear won’t be able to register but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n