So, I’m sharing one of such moment in this blog post.
Today, while listening to mp3 collection, I chanced to hear Jim Rohn ( a motivational speaker) sharing tips on how to build confidence. One of the tips to build confidence is by doing small daily acts and get more focus on important task without getting distracted.
While listening, the word DISTRACTION got hold of me for a reason!
Is it the era of Disruption or Distraction?
Just like most people, I battle a big problem with distraction. Mostly, I get carried away with frivolous stuffs, like clicking a catchy headline, or get restless while sitting in one place. Often, I wonder, if there could be a device that could track every bit of activity during a period of time.
Well, such a tech device could easily calculate the time spend on productive tasks and time wasters!
This is when I got this tech idea!
Currently there are apps which will track your system time, track the websites visited, calculate the unproductive sites, time away from the system, yeda yeda. While working, we had a tool called Prohance! The shortcoming of this tool is that it’s just tracks the activities on the PC.
But there’s no system which tracks things around the room or in the case of office, the activities of an employee inside the premises! Well, the tool I have in mind may sound very intrusive, but if you take in a positive way, then it can be used to track every second and segment into different baskets based on how you program the tool.
So, what’s the big DEAL about this Tech Gadget which tracks Every move of yours!
First of all this is tech gadget has a 360 view eye! Not just a plain camera, but an intelligent, AI powered camera that can access from face and voice recognition to hand moments.
In my mind, this device will appear like a refined version of a surveillance cam. However, don’t be deceived by it’s ordinary looks. Once activated, it can it’s mounted on a ceiling or wall, it’s hard to escape it’s scan.
How is this device different?
It’s more powerful that your typical camera and it can be programmed to understand productive conversation, and even listen to trivial chats.
This device will constantly scan your PC, find out the pages visited, tabs opened, time spend on each page or the application used. Another option is to fix a sensor which allows this camera to study the sites visited and rest of tracking will be done by the screen.
Next level tracking
The device does more than just screen capture. It also reads the human faces around the vicinity. It’s like a Facebook face recognition tool, which tracks each persons face and based on the prior program, it will understand that the conversation is with a team member or it’s just a casual talk with a person in a different team. So, the system will track such talk as social and put it in a different basket.
If the loo is one the same floor, the tool will capture the times a person has gone to loo. Apart from that it can track the quantity of water a person has drunk from the bottle. Well, it can understand the objects in the vicinity and tags everything.
With a series of similar intelligent camera, it can track the employee moving from one room to another, there by creating a full length track of that person inside the office building.
So, with this took, you can take away the role of person peering at the surveillance camera. It can even alert if the person is doing something really out of the way.
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Personal Distraction Capture Tech Gadget
There can be two version of this device. One for office use and another a house use. For example, a person who’s working from home will find it easy to track the activities. And, if you are a parent, then imagine how you can can keep an eye on your kids. Scary shit 🙂
Imagine now that you’re working in your room, you get calls, you pick some magazine, get a visitor, get to answer a door bell, or take a short nap or you just visit social media sites to know the updates… so, what if this tool will collate all the information and present a detailed breakup of your time. It can suggest that you are sitting in the chair for a too long time, and you need to step out and get fresh air.
What if this device is going to help you achieve better performance?
So, what kind of technology will go into such a device? One thing, it has to recognize human faces, objects and screen. I think the technology is there now.
A next level tool can capture data from the chair, also even collect data related to heart beat, Pressure, etc and suggest few changes.
Another spin-off from a tool would be this – it tracks the people interaction inside the office – Who are the people who does good networking, or time waster, who keeps chit-chatting? Probably, also who are the low-key profiles in the profile, who are the flirts, who are the busy bee, or just the seat warmer, etc, etc.
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I browsed net if I could find similar device, but didn’t see if. One company call Humanyze. It uses a device embedded in a badge to track conversation, activities and movement ( if I’m right) to help the management with a holistic report.
One thing lacking in this system is the EYE! It doesn’t have an eye to track the person in real time.
Well, If I get a tool, I will know where my time is slipping, what are the time wasters and so on.
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Now, the question is – Should be stuff be made in Silicon Valley, Bay Area, Mountain View, or it could be in some obscure place in India.
What if I pitch this idea with some Startup fund or share with Elon Musk or Sir Richard Brandson or the startup initiator from India.
Or, is this a project that could be taken up by any of the IT or Engineering colleges for their research and project?
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Btw, the idea is to add intelligent quotient to our surveillance camera.
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