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
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TCP/IP is the set of network communication protocols – the language - of the Internet (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) that ran officially on the ARPA network (the precursor of the internet) in 1983. Because of the military and academic background of the internet, the world wide web was made possible in 1993 with the browser’ Mosaic. Had it been a commercial operation, we would be living in a world where we paid for a subscription to the Sony web to deliver an email to a friend in Japan from Philips Netherlands web. Read more
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There is a well known mock-up image of a Google search result, where the query "my fucking keys" gets the answer "On the top of the fridge, right where you left them dipshit". This captures the essence of the Internet of Things beautifully: the virtual and the physical world get connected and collapse into one world, allowing us to search the Internet for our car keys, to see when the kids get home if we are doing overtime at work, or to get a message when the usual traffic jam back home is about to dissolve.Read more
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A particular group of miniature power generators consists "of devices that recycle energy available in the ambient. They are referred to as scavengers. Typical ambient energy sources are heat or mechanical vibrations." In an IOT environment this becomes even more urgent. Already we can talk of The Monster footprint of digital technology: "When we talk about energy consumption, all attention goes to the electricity use of a device or a machine while in operation. A 30 watt laptop is considered more energy efficient than a 300 watt refrigerator. This may sound logical, but this kind of comparisons does not make much sense if you don't also consider the energy that was required to manufacture the devices you compare. Read more
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In this new report by Statewatch and the Transnational Institute: NeoConOpticon - The EU Security-Industrial Complex, Ben Hayes claims: "Despite the often benign intent behind collaborative European ‘research’ into integrated land, air, maritime, space and cyber-surveillance systems, the EU’s security and R&D policy is coalescing around a high-tech blueprint for a new kind of security.Read more
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The key element for design guidelines of IoT is to leave all the technology dashboards that are being currently build intact but override their protocol by widening the notion of endusers to encompass all citizens. This will allow small artisans and SME (as we see now happening to the iphone model) to make new kinds of slow business with all that data enabling, for example real-time individual threat analysis (which will show 0,00001 threat from terrorists and .5 slipping in your bathroom). Read more
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Designer Ronen Kadushin says: "Open Design is a personal attempt to close a creativity gap between product design and other fields (music, graphic design, animation and photography), which found their creative output in phase with the realities of information technology and economics. The Open Design method is based on the principles of the already successful Open Source method that revolutionized the software industry, and gave birth to a social movement that is cooperative, community-minded and seeks legitimate ways of sharing creativity."Read more
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In 'Moral Exemplars in the Computing Profession', Chuck Huff and Laura Barnard state "it is the combination of social and technical skills that leads to the successful performance of the virtues in computing, and that it would be more effective to teach this combination than to teach the two in isolation (or to only teach the technical). To do this will require some understanding of the complex social and technical skill and knowledge base our exemplars used to solve the problems that confronted them and to achieve the goals they set."
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Smartphones An Emerging Tool for Social Scientists, by Mika Raento (Google UK, London), Antti Oulasvirta, (Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT, Finland), Nathan Eagle (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge): "Recent developments in mobile technologies have produced a new kind of device: a programmable mobile phone, the smartphone. In this article, the authors argue that the technological and social characteristics of this device make it a useful tool in social sciences, particularly sociology, social psychology, urban studies, technology assessment, and media studies.Read more
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November 6th, 2009 at 11:19 AM - Rumor by Jeff Gamet
Apple has apparently been testing prototype versions of the next generation iPhone with RFID support built-in. If true, the next iPhone hardware update could lets users interact with other RFID-enabled devices. News of Apple's RFID tests appeared on the Linkdin Near Field Communications Group page, according to Near Field Communications World.RFID is a technology that uses radio waves to identify items, and right now is used by some companies to track product inventory.Read more
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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
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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
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Holtzman has been actively involved in the Internet of Things since the 90s. According to him that consumer apps for Web-connected objects are becoming more common; he refers to this as an emerging "ecology of devices." There are many real world objects being connected to the Internet nowadays, he said, and they are beginning to act in concert. from ReadWriteWeb
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“Hydra aims to reduce the complexity by developing a service-oriented middleware,” explains Markus Eisenhauer, the project coordinator, who works at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology."
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