Condition monitoring: Situational awareness brought to you by IoT

Sa？etak Increased technology, such as the Internet of Things (IoT), does not increase situation awareness itself. However, technology will help reduce the impact of the situational awareness barriers and improve decision making when used as it was intended [1]. We can become mesmerized by technology that can be held in our hands to communicate, learn, and entertain to the point of distraction, and miss altogether the context that the medium is trying to convey. With this in mind, and from my experience, comes real life observations of good intentions gone wrong at various stages of IoT. This is not an exhaustive list, but more commonly offering situations of doing before thinking