Subject: [Slim] Communication through the language barrier in relation to the Internet of Things

From: William_J_G Overington <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2018 12:23:43 +0100 (BST)

I published the following on the web on Thursday 3 March 2016. I am wondering if this is of any interest and relevance to this discussion forum, or maybe it would be of some interest elsewhere.

William Overington

Friday 1 June 2018

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Communication through the language barrier in relation to the Internet of Things.
 
There is a document available on the web.
 
http://www.iso.org/iso/internet_of_things_report-jtc1.pdf
 
Section 4.1 of the document has the following as the definition for the Internet of Things.
 
“An infrastructure of interconnected objects, people, systems and information resources together with intelligent services to allow them to process information of the physical and the virtual world and react.”
 
I have not got very far with thinking about how localizable sentences would work with the Internet of Things, yet it does seem to me that with such an infrastructure it could be helpful if a person could select, from a cascading menu system on his or her computer or mobile telephone, a localizable sentence displayed in his or her own language and then a language-independent code could be transmitted automatically to an "intelligent" object, and that any response from the "intelligent" object to the person could be a language-independent code that could be localized automatically in the person's local computer or mobile telephone, then that could be a useful way in the Internet of Things for "intelligent" objects to work in a language-independent manner and people to work each in their own language.
 
William Overington
 
Thursday 3 March 2016