CAMP PIXELACHE 2012 is organising a more compact edition of Pixelache Helsinki Festival during on 11-13 May 2012, based on previous Camp Pixelache experiments. Camp Pixelache 2012 is designed around one main unconference day on Saturday 12.5, with an overarching theme of 'Do It With Others' (D.I.W.O.). How can artists, makers, cultural producers, researchers and activists work collaboratively with each other and audiences, to create new co-production models for artefacts/events with sustainability as the core goal? This main theme ranges across sustainable, low-carbon, renewable, and decentralised use or production of 'do-it-together' energy; as well as alternative social and bio- energy towards human sustenance in our cultural production models or everyday actions, which considers necessary change holistically.Read more
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The Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research is planning a special issue on Smart Applications for Smart Cities: New Approaches to Innovation. "Cities are complex, networked and continuously changing social ecosystems, shaped and transformed through the interaction of different interests and ambitions. Ensuring employment, sustainable development, inclusion and quality of life are important concerns. Infrastructures of cities, addressing these concerns, comprise a diversity of services such as healthcare, energy, education, environmental management, transportation and mobility, public safety. Read more
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Rudolf Van der Berg of the OECD’s Science, Technology and Industry Directorate: "Look around you for a second and count the number of electronic devices, machines and gadgets. All of them – light bulbs, cars, TVs, digital cameras, refrigerators, stereos, cranes, beds – will be connected to the Internet over the next 15 years, if they aren’t already. This is the potential of the “Internet of Things”: billions and billions of devices and their components connected to one another via the Internet. 50 billion devices by 2020, according to companies like Ericsson. Read more
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"For large-scale automobile makers, smart metering initiatives, central governments, and consumer electronics companies and maybe even cities a move towards becoming wholesale customers, may overcome some drawbacks evident with current market structures. The reasons why this has not happened yet are in part because MNOs have not felt compelled by competition or opportunities for growth to offer such services.Read more
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The FI-WARE project, currently active in the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research and technological development, announces its First Open Call for new project partners.
FI-WARE will deliver a novel service infrastructure, building upon elements (called Generic Enablers - GEs) which offer reusable and commonly shared functions making it easier to develop Future Internet Applications in multiple sectors. Read more
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The Internet of Things: "By 2020, between 22 and 50 billion devices will be connected to the Internet, providing citizens with an unprecedented array of smart applications and services. Europe is confronted with the challenge of remaining at the cutting-edge of this Internet of Things revolution while addressing the complex policy issues that it raises (privacy, security, ethics)." Want to know more about the topic?
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"The intersection of Enterprise 2.0 and the Internet of Things creates value at two disparate ends of the business spectrum. The adoption of Web 2.0 social networking and collaborative software for businesses is creating new value for businesses, driven from social collaboration between employees, partners, customers and suppliers. On the other end, the rise of the “Internet of Things” has helped transform manufacturing companies into value-added service companies.Read more
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Journal: International Journal of Web and Grid Services, part of the International Workshop on Extending Seamlessly to the Internet of Things (esIoT): "Web services are developing to provide declarative interfaces to services offered by systems on the Internet. They include messaging protocols, standard interfaces and directory services, as well as security layers, for efficient and effective business application integration. Typical application areas are business-to-business integration, business process integration and management, content management, and design collaboration.Read more
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Workshop on Smart Object Security, 23rd March 2012, Paris: "Early 2011, the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) solicited position statements for a workshop on 'Interconnecting Smart Objects with the Internet', aiming to get feedback from the wider Internet community on their experience with deploying IETF protocols in constrained environments. The workshop took place in Prague on March, 25th, 2011. During the workshop a range of topics were discussed, including architecture, routing, energy efficiency, and security. The workshop report summarizes the discussion and suggested several next steps."Read more
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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. Read more
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