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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