Data is the 21st century industrial battleground
The first internet-enabled kettle must have seemed a marvellous thing. From an app on your phone, you could turn on your kettle from any room in the house, and the water would be freshly boiled by the time you reached the kitchen. Switch it on from your car when you were five minutes out, and you could cut five minutes off the tea making process when you arrived home. When the manufacturers realised they could embed this technology, they rushed to do so. Supposedly, though, the first few, in the rush to exploit the technology, missed out on the basics – and forgot about the necessity of adding a level sensor. Switching on your kettle when there is no water inside is never a good idea.
