The app allows muscle car drivers to be more conscious of those around them by quieting their engine in a residential area for example. Though, it is interesting to consider whether, with this technology, neighborhoods will require muscle car drivers to quiet their famed and beloved engines. Then maybe the law requires that your engines be linked to a server that automatically quiets them in a residential area. Though this application seems common sense, at what point will regulation of what’s beloved and fun go to far When will the IoT give us too much control over the systems we use?

Van der Lee’s goal with Vinduino was to improve upon commercial soil monitoring systems that rely upon only one sensor by instead using three to better understand how water is moving through the soil.

Vinduino demonstrates how Aruduino and the IoT are allowing consumers to not only control and view their data but to demand better accuracy then commercially available. After talking with a grad student that has worked with wearable companies and hearing her commentary on how questionable some of the information gathered by commercial wearables can be, products like the Vinduino demonstrate that the most revolutionary wearable products in the future may be those that allow users to adjust to their own amount of accuracy.

Each of the portable environment monitors’ data is also streamed to a server where it can connect to the uRADMonitor network which “allows citizens around the world to collaborate on a vast, crowdsourced dataset of global air quality and radiation measurement”. This aspect of the project also allows users to demonstrate disparities throughout the country to emphasize the disparity in air quality in different parts of the world. If IoT devices continue to link our community to make change together, the possibilities are endless.