3 Techies Banter #3TB - Burglars, UPnP and eWaste in SmartHomes

Burglars, UPnP and eWaste in SmartHomes

07/23/22 • 44 min

With this episode, we kick off a new theme - Everyday Tech and home automation is a natural choice for a first episode.

The earliest reference to a smart home we found was a short story by Ray Bradbury in 1950 called “There Will Come Soft Rains”. It was about a smart house going about its daily routine in the year 2026. It wakes the family, cooks a perfect breakfast, cleans the tables, and so on. The story does have a morbid undertone - but more of that later.

From fiction to nerdiness. Intended for residential networks only, UPnP is a set of networking protocols that allows devices to discover each other and work together without active manual configuration. Sounds a bit like the United Nations of networking 😉. We also dig into the psyche of burglars and their nemesis - modern alarm systems.

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With this episode, we kick off a new theme - Everyday Tech and home automation is a natural choice for a first episode.

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LOTR, GOT, MCU and UPI

Yes - this is a long episode. But so is every story worth listening to.

Imagine Frodo reaching Mordor in 30 min OR
Bran Stark ascending the Iron Throne in an hour OR
Thanos dying in a single movie

Could the Wachowskis have made Matrix as a 30 min video or Francis Ford Coppola made Godfather as a short film? These are rhetorical questions really!

Some data snapshots of UPI

UPI transactions are equal to all debit and credit card transactions in the country
40% of payments (by value) are digital now making India a $3 trillion digital payment market expected to be $10 trillion by 2026
Most important, 50% of transactions through UPI were below Rs 200.

If you liked the previous episode, you will be super thrilled to listen to Pramod talk about his 1+ method to drive irreversible change, how UPI got its name and his take on jugaad.

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The Cloud Doctors are Here

Don't dig your grave with your own knife and fork says an old English proverb. COVID has made all of us very aware of our overall health and wellness needs.

By 2025, India will need an additional 1.5M doctors and 2.2M nurses. Life expectancy at that time will be 70 years with about 90M diabetics. Unless we shift to a new way of looking at managing healthcare, we will be in a constant state of catch-up.

Thanks to the 2k+ health tech startups (of which 350+ are funded and 4 are unicorns), we believe the DIY age of health is HERE. India will democratise its way to universal healthcare. Prevent rather than Treat is the new mantra.

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