the future of automation should be now but it isn't

 I've spent 50 years programming and when i look at some of the systems that have been programmed, it surprises me how little some things have progressed. At the end of the blog, I'll prove to you that I can do it.

For instance: We are still stuck in the world of installers needing to program automation in our homes and businesses. It's downright barbaric. Ok, I am laying it on kind of thick. We'll always need installers as only they have the ability to install some really incredible systems. But come on. Games took the leap into 3d back decades ago and it completely changed the gaming world.

The next generation, is even higher. AI is born and we should take advantage of it. Of course, I'm not talking about huge data centers here. Gemma 4 has released and we can do AI locally. We have the ability, with a system like what I'm creating to talk to our house and have it do stuff and see why logically.

It seems so simple to me, if you can see your home, building, power plant with a facsimile of what it looks like, you can touch that thing and control it. For instance, if you see draperies in your home, on the wall in 3d, then you can touch them and open or close them or set them to open automatically. And, for sure, why even touch them. You should be able to talk to your smartphone or your wall and say: Open the drapes.

And, even better, I spent 30 years creating a scada system. What's that? Well I'm glad you asked. It's a way of looking at programs and knowing what the program is thinking. Logic is not that complicated, at least most of it. To control power plants, the industry created a way to look at your program so that it could be made dependable.

That is scada's block control system. They are like little thoughts. They boiled down logic to simple to understand blocks. So why not be able to be sitting on a beach in Costa Rica and see what your house, building or whatever is thinking. Just ask the system for a view of your logic and you can see what it's thinking as it opens and closes drapes or whatever. Here in la la land, I created a full viewable block control system in real-time, instead of looking at some static view of what was programmed. 

Before I die, I'll be showing you these blocks and the AI will be able to explain what they are doing and why and from that beach in Costa Rica. After all, should you go on not knowing what the world of computing and automation around you is doing? Should we be in the dark about how all these systems function? Shouldn't you just be able to ask your robot why it does what it does in a logical way instead of "I did it because you asked me to"?

The world of automation should move on. It's about time. Since they didn't do it, it has fallen on me to move my system from power plants to the home or business.

It's time we realize, these things are machines not beings. They don't do anything that isn't programmed. You could say the same thing about some humans. But that would be wrong, our DNA may be based on mathematical base 4, ACTG, the molecules of DNA in our cells, but we are not simple automatons. yuk. What an ugly way to look at life. 

And whether you're wondering if I know whereof I speak. Here is the system I created over 30 years of work:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dj3AFrWcxLQ&t=71s

Pierre






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