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“No Treat for You: Pets Miss Meals after Auto-Feeding App PetNet Glitches” is the title of an article about an IoT connected pet-feeder, SmartFeeder by PetNet (www.petnet.io), that left some pets hungry due to a 10-hour server outage. The level of engineering complexity in the SmartFeeder is nowhere near what can be expected in systems-of-systems such as connected intelligent factories or transportation systems where it would be much easier to miss failure modes due to low engineering intuition in the face of the growing complexity of functional architectures, functional loops, multiple disciplines, and high software content. As a result, the complex systems-of-systems of tomorrow are much more likely to trigger product recalls and launch delays than the products of today. A robust and systematic way of mitigating the risks posed by low engineering intuition must be developed to make the connected intelligent products dependable. 

In a recent CIMdata webinar, Why Connected Intelligent Products Need Semantic Web Technology, the potential for Semantic Web Technology to help avoid product failures was considered as a way of alleviating the problem of low engineering intuition caused by growing product complexity. Semantic Web Technology is seen as a possible way of capturing product failure knowledge by converting the implicit subject matter expert understanding into machine-readable knowledge, which can be reused through query and inference. 

Read in full at http://www.cimdata.com/en/resources/cimdata-blog/item/7757-semantic-web-technology-could-help-feed-your-pet-on-time-and-much-more