[electromagnetic]

My dad was gifted with cars, and got into programming with fuel injectors back in the day. He worked as a diagnostic mechanic for a lot of years with lots of funny stories (like roping himself to a car roof with the hood taken off), but he'll sit in your car and tell you a wheel bearing is going. Jump him around the seats and he'll isolate it for you, and even today he gets it on the margin before a dealerships mechanic would be able to spot it.

IIRC a 747 produces 30TB of data per hour from its engine monitoring.

It won't be long until it's in all cars, and then in expensive appliances. A washing machine that detects an unbalanced load to save the motor?

It definitely is a game changer, and I don't think we'll fully comprehend the economic value. Say a stove that can detect a pizza box smoldering on it and cut its own power. What's the economic value of saving a house from burning down? From saving a washing machine from self destructing, or a front loader from flooding your house because a flow monitor says it put more water in than should have triggered the float valve, etc.

It's not just industrial that will benefit, it'll be everything we put moving parts in.

[DougN7]

That would be wonderful and I hope you're right. However, most manufacturer don't benefit if you but a new washing machine every 30 years instead of every 10.

[sumoboy]

Unless it's a Samsung where lifetime < 5 years and self destructs.