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.
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What we offer is forecasting through prototyping, 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?
The changing balance in the roles of citizens, industry and government is hard to map in white papers. They are running behind actual practices the very moment of reading.You pay for expertise, but maybe expertise itself is no longer leading in the network. It is only one of the key factors. Timing is perhaps even more important.Read more
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Council researches how applications can capture more granularity of experience. If the IOT wants to be like the real world, then it has to try to have the same kind of all out sensorial input.
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In 2005 Gill Wildman (Plot) and Rob van Kranenburg hosted a seminar on RFID at the Design Council in London titled The Elephant in the Room: Bringing Innovation into RFID Applications.
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Rob van Kranenburg has been invited to serve on the program committee (PC) of CIOT 2010, a Pervasive Conference Workshop on "What can the Internet of Things do for the Citizen?" which will be held on May 17 in Helsinki at the 8th International Conference on Pervasive Computing. Florian Michahelles (ETH), Stephan Karpischek (ETH), and Albrecht Schmidt (Univ. Duisburg-Essen) will be the chairs of the workshop.
A workshop web site has been set up. 
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In June of this year -2009- the European Commission published its Plan for Action.
16 DG's collaborated together editorially to check the ideas and the content.Read more
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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 on the granularity of experience that counts as input for the hard wired sensors that are the first line of picking up signals that count as data for the datamining, data, and not noise.
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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.  Read more
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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." Read more
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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."Read more
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Private Banker Wegelin & Co Commentary No 265: "We live at a time of shifting power and influence in the world. Asia is on the rise, and Brazil too, probably. Australia will catch on to their coattails, and Europe may once more be able to position itself within these countries’recoveries. The USA will remain the unquestioned military power and also an
enormous repository of debt and other problems. Because they are
painful, and there is always an inclination to shift the blame for them
onto third parties, redimensioning processes always harbour the
potential for aggression. Switzerland is currently experiencing just
this. But it won’t end there. Potential aggression and economic
progress are mutually exclusive. Which is why we are well advised to
take a general farewellof America. This will be painful, for the USA
was once the most vital market economy in the world. But for now, it’s time to say goodbye." Read more
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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.
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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
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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. What are the implications of this network for surveillance, design, privacy, our homes, our working environments? In development of these systems are there particular challenges for designers which can be exploited and how might these opportunities be realised?Read more
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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. Read more
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