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.