Doormail
by Imran Ali
I’m loving the notion of peephole messaging, covered today in Gizmodo.
The peephole camera records video and audio of visitors to your home storing messages for later retrieval…now wouldn’t it be wonderful to have those messages forwarded, perhaps via MMS, to your mobile handset with the option to unlock the door for friendly visitors or trusted workers?
During my time at France Telecom, such ‘telemetry services’ - the ablility to invoke remote control of your home - were the R&D division’s ultimate fantasy - the kind of billable events telcos have wet dreams about! Unfortunately, it seems consumers simply didn’t have the need to remotely operate their curtains or be billed each time they did so…
However, I believe that M2M telemetry services have a role to play in the future of mobile messaging, particularly as users increasingly invoke web services such as Doppr and Twitter lingo through mobile command lines.
I wonder if we’ll see Twitter commands such as ‘d timer 45 pay parking meter’ evolve into general purpose nano-formatted command messages for any service or appliance. Perhaps one I’ll be able to message my door with the command ‘d frontdoor unlock in 45 minutes’…
