Allvoices: "When the dotcom bubble burst almost a decade ago, no one thought that its present value of $2.3 trillion, larger than the economies of most countries, was possible, but analysts say there is even more new in store for the World Wide Web’s economy and it’s going to be quite impressive. According to figures released by consultancy firm Boston Consulting Group, the web economy is going to double in the next 4 years and is expected to hit the whopping sum of $4.2 trillion by 2016. And while it is quite a sum, this figure is only representative of the web economy in the G20 countries.Read more
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The Internet (and the Nature) of Things By: Agustin Pelaez - Cofounder and Managing Director at Ubidots. See the pdf for the full text with images.
In the quest for a more optimistic analogy for the Internet of Things, I suggest we take a look at nature itself. Our living world has been around for millions of years, a good reason to trust its efficiency and sustainability mechanisms. What can we learn from it? Read more
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NewsWorks Tonight host Dave Heller interviews WHYY reporter Elizabeth Fiedler about the "Internet of Things." NewsWorks Staff: In terms of the scariness, I guess any new technology that allows you to collect that much data from that many things has some weird possibilities. Anything can be used for good or ill, I guess, so it's something to keep an eye on. The "Internet of Things" can be described in two ways -- exciting and perhaps a little scary. WHYY reporter Elizabeth Fiedler joined NewsWorks Tonight host Dave Heller to break down the concept.Read more
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Wuxi is a city that has more than 2,000 years of history and has a population of more than 6 million. Wuxi city is located some 45 minutes by train north west of Shanghai. The city has been named the "Sensing China Center" since the year 2008 and is one of the leading centers of IoT related research and industry in China. The conference IoT2012 will be held in the Wuxi InterContinental hotel, Read more
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ETSI Headquarters, Sophia Antipolis, France - 17 January 2012. Major Standards Development Organizations (the "SDOs"*) -- ARIB, ATIS, CCSA, ETSI, TIA, TTA, and TTC -- recognize that M2M services often rely upon communications networks for connectivity between the myriad of devices in the field and the M2M application servers, and have identified the need for a common cost-efficient, easily and widely available M2M Service Layer, which can be readily embedded within various hardware and software.Read more
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Alicia Asín Pérez is Gerente / CEO of Libelium Council: From proximity marketing to agriculture, from home security to ad hocnetworks for earthquakes. Is it not complex to cover so many different content domains? Do you feel you need specialized knowledge to operate in certain domains?
Alicia Asín Pérez: All those applications seem different, but we always approach them from the point of view of monitoring a parameter in order to make better decissions. Waspmote is a platform for system integrators which means that we are in the "hardware" and "api" side, our customers add the necessary value of topic expertise. Read more
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Björn Anderseck is project manager from smaRTI, a project that seeks to simplify the implementation of smart reusable transport items (RTIs).
Council: In the RFID Journal "Every supply chain partner," you explain, "would know the exact location of the goods, in which process step they are, and if the goods are in the front store or in the back room." To what extent does this process entails the enduser?
Björn Anderseck: The enduser has currently of course no insight in the logistical processes. He´s is also not always interested in a logistical process behind the products he wants to buy. Read more
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brXerland: It would be just and very nice to know that at any given time an individual has the right to view the entirety or part of the data that is available on him/her -- who or what has entered (t)his/her data (and when) -- who or what has consulted his/her data (and when), who or what has modified his/her data (and when) -- to add and amend his/her data, and to know that fundamentally it is his/her sole property ownership, this data. (The Universal Declaration of Human Rights) It is impossible to imagine data disappearing or vanishing with out the entire internet or substantially large parts of it being rendered inert in an internet of things scenario. No?Read more
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Blog Jelastic: Charalampos Doukas, author of Arduino, Sensors and the Cloud: "In the last few decades, especially in the last 10 years, the ability to not only tag and monitor but also control uniquely identifiable objects has grown at a tremendous pace. Everything generates data, from natural networks to human networks to computer networks. Up until recently, it really wasn’t possible to keep track of all this data and then on top of that, actually do something with it. This new, all encompassing network—The Internet of Things (IoT)—is now possible due to the emergence of Cloud computing. Within the IoT, objects in the real world also have virtual representations, allowing us to interact with them through the Internet.Read more
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Preparatory studies will help develop ‘Internet of Things’ applications and services: "Ten British companies are to receive up to £50,000 each to undertake preparatory studies to better understand how to move towards an application and services marketplace in the ‘Internet of Things’. This is the first investment in a government-backed initiative, managed by the Technology Strategy Board, aimed at encouraging and accelerating the formation of an Internet of Things ecosystem of applications and services.Read more
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Iskander Smit: The Panopticon; to a city of trust via empathic products A very nice challenge to think of a possible future based on the ideas of the Panopticon. I like to think and maybe dream a bit on a possible and likeable future that is shaped around this concept. I share the worries of an evolution to the Panopticon due to the connected world we transform into, maybe just partly deliberately, and also not only driven by governments, but especially by the big four platforms of data services (Facebook, Google, Apple, Amazon) that build this to control the use of our devices. Read more
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Prof. Dr. Rolf H. Weber, University of Zurich: "Panopticon and Footsteps Bentham’s Panopticon designs a type of building allowing the „controller“ to observe inmates without enabling them to find out whether or not they are being watched. However, the virtual world of today cannot only be described with the Panopticon since the manifold privacy risks exceed the famous Orwellian„big brother is watching you“. Moreover, the problem of traces in the Internet causes major concerns: The most famous detective, Sherlock Holmes, once observed, „there is no branch of detective science which is so important and so much neglected as the art of tracing footsteps“. Read more
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Brian Sherwood Jones: The Panopticon question: "The current Web 2.0 has massive shortfalls in privacy and security - to a large extent representing the end of anonymity and privacy. Is IoT proposing to make good this technical debt as well as provide the end-to-end information assurance necessary for IoT applications to work with privacy, security, safety, accuracy, timeliness etc.? The issue is not one of 'things' but the funding and control of the infra-structure. Read more
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The Internet of Things provides a promising vision of the future world where the virtual world of information technology integrates seamlessly with the real world of things. It is regarded as an ideal platform for people, as well as smart things, to communicate easily with each other not only in business and industries but also in our daily scenarios. Read more
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Panopticon as a metaphor of the Internet of Things – why not?
But if it were the opposite? (full text with notes in pdf)
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