The Semantic Product Memory: An Interactive Black Box for Smart Objects
Low-cost and compact digital storage, sensors and radio modules make it possible to embed a digital memory into a product for recording all relevant events throughout the entire lifecycle of the artifact. By capturing and interpreting ambient conditions a
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Abstract Low-cost and compact digital storage, sensors and radio modules make it possible to embed a digital memory into a product for recording all relevant events throughout the entire lifecycle of the artifact. By capturing and interpreting ambient conditions and user actions, such computationally enhanced products have a data shadow and are able to perceive and control their environment, to analyze their observations and to communicate with other smart objects and human users about their lifelog data. In the introductory section of this chapter, we illustrate the innovation and application potential offered through the concept of semantic product memories by an imaginative scenario. Then we provide a taxonomy of the wide variety of digital object memories: from mobile cyber-physical systems to semantic product memories in open-loop applications. We show that extended customer information, traceability and increased quality assurance have been the drivers for the rudimentary forerunners of product memories in the food industry. Then we discuss the benefits and risks of semantic product memories for producers as well as consumers. We argue that active semantic product memories will play a key role in the upcoming fourth industrial revolution based on cyber-physical production systems. Finally, we provide an overview of the structure and content of the remainder of this book.
1 A Future Scenario for Semantic Product Memories Embedding sensors, communication and computing capabilities into physical products enables them to seamlessly gather and use information throughout their entire lifecycle. By capturing and interpreting user actions and ambient conditions, smart products with a data shadow stored in their embedded digital product memory are able to perceive and control their environment, to analyze their observations and to communicate with other objects and human users about their lifelog data. Although the term “Digital Product Memory” was coined by the author already in Wahlster
W. Wahlster (B) DFKI GmbH, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Saarbrücken, Germany e-mail: [email protected] W. Wahlster (ed.), SemProM, Cognitive Technologies, DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-37377-0_1, © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013
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Fig. 1 Semantic product memories covering the complete lifecycle of products
(2007), only after the successful implementation and the deployment of industrial applications developed by the S EM P RO M (Semantic Product Memory) consortium is it now in widespread use and has become widely known both in academic and industrial circles. In the following introductory paragraphs, we will illustrate the innovation and application potential offered by the concept of semantic product memories presented in this book through an imaginative scenario. Imagine a company named Althaus produces exclusive Belgian chocolates and creates a new limited-edition series of pralines in fancy gift boxes that use a semantic product memory (Fig. 1). The House of Chocolates in Berli
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