Madrid, July 8 (EFE) .- The “internet of things”, the unstoppable phenomenon of connecting everything to everything, for the rise of sensors and chips, still drags complex technical deficiencies, some “very difficult” to solve, said today in Madrid Vinton Cerf, considered one of the “fathers” of the Internet.
Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist (responsible for exploring new uses of the Internet) to Google, Cerf, whose work in the seventies were key to connect the first computers together , today gave a lecture on “the future of internet: challenge and opportunities.” invited by the Polytechnic University of Madrid
With such prestigious awards as the Turing Prince of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research and, Cerf said that “there are still many open questions about complicated many unresolved issues” around to the concept of the “Internet of things”.
To illustrate the importance of the phenomenon noted that the figures stand at 3,000 million the number of Internet users and between 10,000 and 15,000 million currently connected devices, figures continue multiplying.
One of the most difficult to solve for the popularization of this ‘internet of things’ problems is the lack of standard platforms interconnectivity apparatuses with others, since they vary depending manufacturers and that prevents communication with each other.
In short, he recalled, any object will be connected to the Internet by all kinds of sensors “that are very common everywhere”, in refrigerators, microwave, thermostats or washing machines.
why communication platforms are needed “large-scale” to enable the machines understood and that challenge has not been achieved yet, insisted the computer expert.
It is also a priority for the devices, which are multiplied by thousands or millions, can be easily handled.
In any home, could be tens to be used at the same time: temperature sensors, humidity, music volume, shutter control. It would be advisable that they can be controlled all with a single command, probably mobile.
And this single device should be easily programmable, almost automatically, to make life easier for the user who does not have to read “instructions and instructions with such apparatus.”
Also security around this new interconnected world is another major challenge, Cerf said. This “vibrant” internet space is in “constant evolution and hospitable” with all kinds of innovative ideas, requires stronger systems against cyber attacks.
greater guarantees user authentication should only be accessible if the system is who he claims to be, and also the software in its design would include far fewer vulnerabilities or “are required bugs “to keep out the” bad guys “.
Cerf anticiberataques systems raises instant action, because, just as the first thing you do with a fire is add water and then call the police, with the urgent also internet is to curb the menace and then find those responsible.
global cooperation of industry and countries is needed because cybercrime has no borders and victims are attacked from anywhere in the world, he said.
referió also the need for global implementation of the new Internet protocol IPv6 that requires “a boost by the industry” and the challenge of allocating soon many new names addresses on the network.
He reiterated that worry “a lot” possible non-digital heritage of future generations by the expected difficulty of access to existing documents on the internet (photos, videos, tweets, blogs, texts) with future technologies.
Hence the proposal of digital “Vellum” or digital parchment, which has referred in the past to preserve all that virtual legacy in the future.
Taking advantage of his presence today at the University, said the democratizing role of the internet, allowing anyone to access it regardless of where you are, with higher or lower educational resources.
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