Even the manhole covers are getting smarter What's next? intellivate the kitchen sink

Even the manhole covers are getting smarter

Michael Kesterton in his column SOCIAL STUDIES A DAILY MISCELLANY OF INFORMATION in the Globe and Mail writes about Intelligent manholes?  " '

Any Tom, Dick or Harry can open a manhole cover,'  [   ] Edward Christie's firm, Stabiloc of Warren, Mich., has developed a manhole locking system

".  .  .  What lies below any given manhole cover?  Perhaps the potential to paralyze a city in an instant, so Stabiloc's system not only locks the manhole cover but also provides a small chip, placed in a protective device, that details the service history and what's below. It's an important development, Christie said.  'We've made the manhole cover more intelligent.' 

STABILOC helps Municipalities to: "

• Prevent thefts of manhole covers for scrap value
• Dispatch the latest technology to secure an aging infrastructure system
• Comply with Vulnerability Assessment findings - "Single Points of Failure"
• Can be retrofitted to work with existing covers saving cities money
• Can be ordered with new replacement manhole covers
• Protects manhole covers from theft -reducing cities dependency on purchasing replacement covers
• Prevents access from unauthorized personnel with controlled tooling

So what 'left to make smarter ?  Or all we need to make smarter or intellivate (intelligent + elevate) is the kitchen sink

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Walter Derzko

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