One of the best uses of technology I’ve seen lately was at Navy Pier in Chicago. There are multiple parking garages on the pier with dozens of doors into the main building. To help people who forget where they parked or entered, there are “vehicle locator” stations throughout. You type in your license plate and the machine tells you which door to exit and the location of your car. There are so many times and places where I would have welcomed this!
If you are installing the technology to do one function (scan license plates), think of how you can use it for other purposes or benefits (car locator). The same principle could be applied to yesterday’s dot (#4498) with size allocations or in inventory availability with guacamole (#4493).
Data is nothing but 1’s and 0’s until you make it actionable information.
