英语程度英语阅读：物联网

2021年1月7日发(作者：魏琳)
Research to be published in the International Journal of Web-Based Communities
suggests that the familiar interfaces1 of online social networking sites might be
adapted to allow us to interact more efficiently2 with our networked devices such as
cars, domestic appliances and gadgets3. The concept would also extend to the idea
of those devices connecting with each other as necessary to improve efficiency of
heating and lighting4, make our home entertainment systems smarter and much
more. Are you Facebook friends with your microwave oven, is your car? Does your
washing machine have a blog read by the tumble drier? Ever thought of following
your lighting circuit on Twitter, would it make sense to have the electric curtain
controllers do so? Well, such whimsical ideas are perhaps a little far-fetched at first
glance. There are some precedents5. One might follow a movie and TV streaming
site on Twitter and use a connection tool to automatically control what output you
record for later viewing on the TV but only if a web review site you also follow gives
it a five-star review perhaps. You might even have a link between the items you flag
as good or bad that then filter into Facebook updates, as many people do with the
music they listen to on Spotify. The combinations seem limitless.

More mundane6 applications involving the lighting and heating in your home exist
that allow you to have the thermostat7 switch on the heating before you come home
either when you send it a text but also perhaps when a weather update from twitter
forecasts snow. The Internet of Things is with us already as more and more
domestic and other devices are hooked up to the internet and so their sensors8 and
readouts become accessible via a web browser9 or to other software and apps on
your smart phone become the norm for controlling a wide range of gadgets.

The next step is the development of a
and their gadgets to be more coherently connected. Writing in the International
Journal of Web Based Communities, computer scientists Bruno Cabral, Cibele
Vasconcelos and Cássio Prazeres of the Federal University of Bahia, in Brazil,
recognize that we now use online social networks as a surrogate and as a
supplement to many of the activities we once were able only to do offline without
digital assistance. As the internet of things evolves, there is the potential to bring
together this world and to use it to enhance and make more efficient our use of
refrigerators, microwave ovens, TVs, cars, cell phones and other devices to improve
quality of life.


词汇解析：

1 interfaces
界面( interface的名词复数 )； 接口（连接两装置的电路，可使数据从一种代码转换
成另一种代码）； 交界； 联系
参考例句：
If the class needs to be reprogrammed, new interfaces are created. 如果class需要重
新程序设计，新的interfaces创建。
Interfaces solve this problem of evolving code. Interfaces解决了代码升级的问题。
2 efficiently
adv.高效率地，有能力地
参考例句：
The worker oils the machine to operate it more efficiently.工人给机器上油以使机器运
转更有效。
Local authorities have to learn to allocate resources efficiently.地方政府必须学会有效
地分配资源。
3 gadgets
n.小机械，小器具（ gadget的名词复数 ）
参考例句：
Certainly. The idea is not to have a house full of gadgets. 当然。设想是房屋不再充满
小配件。 来自超越目标英语 第4册
This meant more gadgets and more experiments. 这意味着要设计出更多的装置，做
更多的实验。 来自英汉非文学 - 科学史
4 lighting
n.照明，光线的明暗，舞台灯光
参考例句：
The gas lamp gradually lost ground to electric lighting.煤气灯逐渐为电灯所代替。
The lighting in that restaurant is soft and romantic.那个餐馆照明柔和而且浪漫。
5 precedents
引用单元； 范例( precedent的名词复数 )； 先前出现的事例； 前例； 先例
参考例句：
There is no lack of precedents in this connection. 不乏先例。