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.

We've put a lot of work into educating the user on how compatible each item is. So if you look at any product in the site, under the price there's details about 'Technology' and 'Compatibility'. Furthermore, by clicking on those links, the user can get lots more info about the compatibility aspects of the technology. We realise not everything works together yet, so this aspect is important when people make choices about wireless sensor networks.

In about a weeks time, we'll also launch our Wireless Home & Office planners, which really makes it easy for a customer to build their Internet of Things, by clicking on appliances in the home, the user will be presented with suggestions on which sensors we recommend.

We have a vision for all these open standard technologies to work together, and further down the line we'd begin to offer additional services around web based user interfaces. The idea is that you could buy a sensor, and have it immediately pair with your existing wireless network with no setup effort needed. This, along with the new smart grid initiatives, will really spawn the new generation of consumer orientated services around wireless sensors."

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Martin Pot

Martin Pot is an independent interior-architect and researcher in Rotterdam, has finished study at Technical School and graduated at the Academy of Visual Arts there; he is now studying webculture. He is primarily occupied with the development and implementation of domotics and other technical/media/visual aspects concerning the living/housing environment. He writes for several media on dwelling/housing and interior-architecture, has created several studies on housing, stage/media-designs and is working on a variety of interior-projects.

Interior Architect

Natacha Roussel

Natacha Roussel creates organic like haptic interfaces involving one or several users they can be body extension or come as close to the body to being a garment. She currently pursues a Phd research at the planetary collegium concentrating on augmented clothes as a collective environment.
In 2003 she co-founded Experientiae Electricae, Experientiae Electricae integrates technologies based on rudimentary electronic principles and leading to multiple occupation of city space.

Augmented Clothes

Alexander Gluhak

Alex is a senior researcher at the University of Surrey, where he works on real world information infrastructures based on the Internet of Things. He is technical manager of the SENSEI project, a large-scale European project that focuses on the Integration of the Physical into the Digital World of the Future Internet. Alex is also active in the Future Internet Assembly, where he is care taker of the Real World Internet community. His recent interests are amongst others capturing characteristics of human behaviour with the help of the Internet of Things and the application of machine learning techniques for its interpretation and prediction.

Real World Internet

Short interview with Dave Bell from Vesternet

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