If - according to the IOT - everything is connected: where does that leave the definition of home; i.e.: what is the relation between technology and our home -environment? What does ultimate connectivity means for architects, builders, craftsmen; the moment we start dwelling? Should there be a space which secures us; does that need another kind of privacy?Read more
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"Having sensors that relay information in everything we own, use, wear, touch and play with has some serious implications for privacy. Where will the information go once it has left the tags? Could anybody walking down the street stick out an antena that scans passers by, works out where they’ve been and their habits, and then tell the world? Not great news for the likes of messrs Terry and Cole.Read more
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Arlon Stok says: "Just imagine how it would be if all of the objects you own and pass by would be connected to a sort of new internet. Billions of objects would be connected through this network to us humans, adding a lot of possibilities to both our daily and long-term ways of thinking and acting. It's a simple concept: users defined their rights when the internet was born, and it will have to happen once again. This is the main issue to face." He does not only talk about IoT, he draws it too.
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"It would be ideal if you could borrow what you lack from your neighbours. I love soup, but unfortunately I do not always have all the things or even the knowledge that I need to prepare it. If sharing was the norm this would not be an obstacle. Neighbours, too, could benefit from sharing, especially if they don’t know each other (that well). Many of us have tools lying around the house that we barely use. I find it a shame to buy such tools but too often I see it as my only option.Read more
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Calling all environmental designers, artists and researchers: we're delighted to announce that Pachube.com in collaboration with xClinic, the Environmental Health Clinic + Lab at NYU and ZER01: the Art and Technology Network, are soliciting proposals to create environmental health projects and lifestyle experiments that make use of Pachube.Read more
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Bob Dahlberg from Arrayent:
Where do you see Arrayant in 5 years?
"While our prospective customers have called us the "Cisco of things," rather in five years we see Arrayent providing the best cloud computing environment for "things.""
What is the meaning of content in your system?
"Essentially think of Arrayent as a communication pipe, connecting the consumer product to communication servers in the cloud. To us, content is pass through. Today our system has been optimized for telemetry or "light media" applications. Read more
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Forum will
organise in Milan (Italy) an event on "Internet of Things" that will
held on 6 May.
Nicola Fabiano will participate to present the Council and its
activities, and the legal issues in the IoT phenomenon. Obviously we
appreciate very much the interest for the Council from the organisers
and I hope that this will be the beginning to talk ever more about IoT
in Italy. Read more
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Council and Institute of Philosophy team up with Lift@Home again for a Moscow seminar on Convergence of NBIC-technologies and Internet of Things. We believe the "winning solution" to making the most open, inclusive
and innovative Internet of Things is to transcend the short-term
opposition between social innovation and security by finding a way to
combine these two necessities in a broader common perspective. Read more
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Most of us will be living in cities in the future, and cities are a scale of operating most of us don't often get a chance to think at. Many cities are expanding exponentially – some 70 million people leave rural areas every year to join nearby cities, the majority to join squatter cities. At the same time brand new cities, such as Masdar - a carbon neutral city in Abu Dhabi - are being built right now.
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Download the pdf below: "It all began with a coffeepot.
A coffeepot that was connected to the Internet (before it was even called the Internet) and which provided information about its status (long before there was Twitter).
In 1991, researchers at Cambridge University shared a single coffeepot among several floors. Read more
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Noah helps people reconnect with nature and contribute to organizations that are working hard to catalog and preserve our planet's biodiversity. Noah connects aspiring citizen scientists with current research projects focused on documenting various plant and animal species. Think of Noah as a tool that nature lovers can use to explore and document wildlife and as a common technology platform that research groups can use to harness the power of citizen scientists everywhere.
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"We launched the site Vesternet 12 months ago initially planning to offer ZigBee products. But then we realised there were lots of other similar wireless technologies that would begin to touch peoples lives. So we expanded the site to include other products available now such as RFID & EnOcean, but also to discuss and educate people on the availability of up and coming technologies like Bluetooth Low Energy and Continua.
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Sourcemap is a platform for researching, optimizing and sharing the supply chains behind a number of everyday products: "Simply put: We believe that people have the right to know where things come from and what they are made of." Sourcemap "is a tool for producers, business owners and consumers to understand the impact of supply chains. Our site is a social network where anyone can contribute to a shared understanding of the story behind products. Read more
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Council proposes to hold very small Council meetings anywhere in the world on April 9. These can vary to having a cup of coffee with someone and talk about the Internet of Things or hosting a dinner at your place, or going for a walk on the beach, as long as it is on April 9 and about IoT, and we really pump up the jam on this one on Twitter, Facebook, What-have-you, to make it into a yearly Council Internet of Things day. Read more
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Usman Haque, Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino and Rafi Haladjian, Council members, are listed as Top 10 Internet of Things Products of 2009 by RICHARD MACMANUS of ReadWriteWeb (December 8, 2009)
"2009 has been a turning point for the Internet of Things, when real world objects (such as lights, cars and packages) get connected to the Internet. Read more
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