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It all began with a coffeepot. IOT by The Hammersmith Group 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 File Upload: networked_objects.pdf	Noah: Networked Organism 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.	Short interview with Dave Bell from Vesternet "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. Read more
Sourcemap 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	April 9: Global Internet of Things Day 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. Matt Ratto, Joy Tang, Martin Pot and Inaki Vazquez have already indicated they are going to set up small events or meetings. Read more	Top 10 Internet of Things Products of 2009 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. This trend has added a significant amount of new data to the Web, so for that reason alone it is an important development. Having said that, many of the following top 10 list are not yet mainstream products. But we expect some of them to become well known over the coming years.Read more
Norway to invest in IoT From The Research Council of Norway: "Norway has strong ICT groups and companies that are international leaders in several areas of vital importance to future Internet solutions, such as search engines, mobile services, national databases and infrastructure. For this reason, the VERDIKT programme has chosen "Future Internet" as the overall thematic framework for this autumn's initiative. Future Internet is also a key priority area of the ICT theme under the EU Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development, in which Norway is taking active part.Read more	6LoWPAN: IPv6 over Low-Power wireless Area Networks 6LoWPAN: IPv6 over Low-Power wireless Area Networks just some quotes for now: "The Working Group will generate the necessary documents to ensure interoperable implementations of 6LoWPAN networks and will define the necessary security and management protocols and constructs for building 6LoWPAN networks, paying particular attention to protocols already available." sourceRead more	Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on The Internet of Things Premier reveals personal stories behind major policy changes (www.chinaview.cn 2009-12-27) by Xinhua writers Xiong Zhengyan, Wang Yaguang "BEIJING, Dec. 27 (Xinhua) -- Tales are usually told as entertainment, but sometimes they act as catalysts for change. In China, the world's third largest economy, story tales have led to national policy changes. During his first one-on-one interview with Xinhua News Agency on Sunday, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao told several personal stories that helped his cabinet formulate the country's policies to tackle the global financial crisis and other issues....Internet has not been new to Premier Wen, but Internet of Things was. Read more
Accelerating the roadmap to an Internet of Things @ Home, Philips Design with Philips I.T. Strategy and Innovation View the workshop Prezi here. For the best viewing experience give Prezi time to load the media then select full screen from "More" at the bottom right of presentation, use on-screen arrows to follow path or navigate freely with your mouse. Thank you to all participants who contributed! This workshop is indicative of the kind of workshops Council can run in 2010. Read more	Council launches in Brussel: blogs, reports and videoclips Council and Tinker.it! presented: Are you ready for the Internet of Things? A LIFT @ Home event, december 4, 2009, Brussels, at IMAL.org The movies by filmers Suzanne Hogendoorn and Joris Holtermans are on the Council Conference Channel on youtube. The evening program was streamed by IMAL and is archived. You can watch it. IMAL was packed during the 12 hour event, including a marvellous vegetarian lunch and diner by Annabel. The presentations in the morning ranged the entire field.Read more	Council is a thinktank, consultancy, accelarator and forecasting group Council is a loose group of professionals with different ideas and opinions. We sometimes differ and will probably clash. We prefer to host the full range of opinions on what will be a small avalanche of disruptive innovations. We do have something in common though. We have been through the full range of emotions and conceptual breakdown that comes with grasping the territory, the full logistical, business, social and philosophical implications of the Internet of Things. Read more
Council Mission 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. The Internet as most people know it – the www - is 16 years old. In these sixteen years we have seen disruptive innovations in content (individuals gaining power with their ideas and opinions through blogs, issue websites, online collaboration), and in formats (youtube video, tomtom navigation). Read more	Advanced Network Architecture: Next Generation IPv6 Implementation and Management Executive Summary: A project, which I conducted back in March, 2008 discusses the ethical and legal implication that Information Technology has on society today.Read more	Internet of things: ontological and anthropological perspective Connecting the socio-cultural,economic and transcendent dimensions of Human Enhancement and Smart Environment. Smart Landscapes City Game Social Network New trends of NBIC-convergence, Human Enhancement Technologies on the one hand and Smart Environment (Ambient intelligence, Ubiquitous computing, Internet of Things) on the other prepare us to a future paradigm shift blurring Anthropology and Social Philosophy borderlines.Read more Add new comment

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Nicolas Nova is both a researcher interested in field studies for design, as well as the editorial manager of the LIFT conferences. He is interested by mobile/urban/location-based applications to tangible and gestural interactions, network objects, social computing and gaming.

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