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. We do a SWOT analysis to see if you are ready for IOT and if so on what level you should focus. Read more about Are you ready?
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What we offer is forecasting through prototyping (term by Ben Russell, author of Headmap), focusing on ther granularity of experience of input models, devices and experiences of people with the devices, and the quality of output that we measure in terms of real innovation in everyday life, not in a lab or ‘Living lab’. Are you ready for the Internet of Things?
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In June 2009- the European Commission published its Plan for Action. 16 DG's collaborated together editorially to check the ideas and the content.
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The first requirement for building an ambient society is a debate with all stakeholders; citizens, small and medium enterprises, multinationals, semi government and government institutions
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Wireless is increasingly pulling in all kinds of applications, platforms, services and things (rfid) into networks. Many people communicate through mobiles, blackberries, digital organizers, palmtops. Cars become information spaces with navigational systems and consoles like Nintendo DS have wireless capacities and get linux kernels installed.
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In his Mobile Internet of Things Blog, Florian Michahelles writes "Liam Bannon commented on how industry has changed, he gave the example of a senior executive who has changed his instructions from "evaluate" (something the company has developed) over "develop" and "explore" to "come up with something interesting". Liam outlined herewith a clear shift from industry-driven to user-driven research."
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From Bunnie Blog: "I always had a theory that at some point, the amount of knowledge and the scale of the markets in the area would reach a critical mass where the Chinese would stop being simply workers or copiers, and would take control of their own destiny and become creators and ultimately innovation leaders."
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Our experiences today, though intimate, are increasingly networked,
interconnected and part of our greater whole and thus today require a
new kind of book, software or sense of a city to talk about them.
Design and technology should be about the one thing sorely lacking in
either, about creating meaning for people and for people’s lives. Why
won’t a video game make you cry when a 40 year old film will? Design
should be like a good book, intimate, and ultimately human-centred.
Read more about Design and Meaning
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A very promising project based for now on the USRP (universal radio peripheral): "The OpenBTS Project is an effort to construct an open-source Unix application that uses the Universal Software Radio Peripheral (USRP) to present a GSM air interface ("Um") to standard GSM handset and uses the Asterisk software PBX to connect calls. Read more about Open BTS
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It is the final event in a series called 'Systems of Learning' which has looked as different ways in which media systems encourage collaboration, network and user feedback and human-machine learning. In this final event the focus will be on the emergence of what has been called 'The Internet of Things'. and how this impacts on communication, design, social interaction, how we live in our homes and how we hold onto ideas of privacy in a ubiquitously networked and tagged world.
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Bell Labs HCI research position: “Augmented Objects for a DiY Internet-of-Things”
For the Ambient Media department of the Bell Labs research division of Alcatel-Lucent (Antwerp, Belgium), we are looking for a Senior Researcher in Physical Computing. The Ambient Media department in Bell-Labs focuses on creating new Application Concepts and Application Creation Environments for so- called "ambient" applications in which the userinterface and application intelligence (HW & SW) are distributed over (and incorporated in) the environment.
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Preliminary Announcement and Call for Papers
INTERNET OF THINGS 2010
"IoT for a Green Planet"
International Conference for Industry and Academia
November 29 - December 1, 2010
at Royal Park Hotel, Tokyo (Japan)
Organized by Auto-ID Laboratories at Keio University, ETH Zurich & University of St. Gallen and MIT
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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.
Read more about Short interview with Dave Bell from Vesternet
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