the internet of things | Are you ready for the Internet of Things?

Community Scenario In a neighboorhood a digital veil is overlayed where the focus is on the quality of the interaction within the range of the community: technically from NFC/RFId (near) to Bluetooth (sight) and wifi to GPS (far). All the inhabitants are being asked, after a very good public campaign and a lot of visits to neughbourhoodcenters and individual talks through identifying early adopters by setting up social netwotking sites for each community, to identify a set of activities they perform throughout the day, clustering these in morning, afternoon and evening. Read more	Council is a thinktank, consultancy, accelarator and forecasting group Council is a loose group of professionals with different ideas and opinions. We sometimes differ and will probably clash. We prefer to host the full range of opinions on what will be a small avalanche of disruptive innovations. We do have something in common though. We have been through the full range of emotions and conceptual breakdown that comes with grasping the territory, the full logistical, business, social and philosophical implications of the Internet of Things. Read more	Biomapping Biomapping is a community mapping project in which over the last four years with more than 1500 people have taken part in. Read more
Pachube Pachube is a web service available at that enables you to connect, tag and share real time sensor data from objects, devices, buildings and environments around the world. Read more	Council launches in Brussel: blogs, reports and videoclips Council and Tinker.it! presented: Are you ready for the Internet of Things? A LIFT @ Home event, december 4, 2009, Brussels, at IMAL.org The movies by filmers Suzanne Hogendoorn and Joris Holtermans are on the Council Conference Channel on youtube. The evening program was streamed by IMAL and is archived. You can watch it.Read more	Top 10 Internet of Things Products of 2009 Usman Haque, Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino and Rafi Haladjian, Council members, are listed as Top 10 Internet of Things Products of 2009 by RICHARD MACMANUS of ReadWriteWeb (December 8, 2009) "2009 has been a turning point for the Internet of Things, when real world objects (such as lights, cars and packages) get connected to the Internet. Read more
April 9: Global Internet of Things Day Council proposes to hold very small Council meetings anywhere in the world on April 9. These can vary to having a cup of coffee with someone and talk about the Internet of Things or hosting a dinner at your place, or going for a walk on the beach, as long as it is on April 9 and about IoT, and we really pump up the jam on this one on Twitter, Facebook, What-have-you, to make it into a yearly Council Internet of Things day. Read more	The Street of Shared Things "It would be ideal if you could borrow what you lack from your neighbours. I love soup, but unfortunately I do not always have all the things or even the knowledge that I need to prepare it. If sharing was the norm this would not be an obstacle. Neighbours, too, could benefit from sharing, especially if they don’t know each other (that well). Many of us have tools lying around the house that we barely use. I find it a shame to buy such tools but too often I see it as my only option.Read more

Iñaki Vazquez

Dr. Juan Ignacio (a.k.a. Iñaki) Vazquez is the head of R&D on Intelligent Environments at DeustoTech, a research institute associated to the University of Deusto in Bilbao, Spain. He received his PhD (Doctor Europeus mention) with a dissertation titled “A Reactive Behavioural Model for Context-Aware Semantic Devices”, having spent three months in the Embedded Interactive Systems research group in Lancaster University, UK. His main research focus is currently on smart objects connected to the Internet (Internet of Things), especially when involving interactions with Web 2.0 sites ("using real world objects as a means for people to socialize with other people through the Internet"), and their integration with smart environments, TUI (Tangible User Interfaces) and wireless sensor networks. His current efforts are also oriented to help companies to create new product concepts based on this approach.

Intelligent Environments

Alan Munro

Alan Munro is an consultant researcher studying people, use of new technologies, and interactions through them. His work is primarily in ethnographic and situationist approaches informing design of new technologies, and informing critical reflection on them.

Ethnographic Research

Julian Bleecker

Julian Bleecker is a designer, technologist and researcher at the Design Strategic Projects studio at Nokia Design in Los Angeles and the Near Future Laboratory. He investigates emerging social practices and networked interaction rituals. His focus is on hands-on design, physical construction, prototyping, observation, prop-making and designed science fictions as a way to raise questions, tune in weak signals, reveal hidden insights and yield innovations that could make the world a more habitable, playful place.

He has a BS in Electrical Engineering and an MS in computer-human interaction. He earned his PhD from the University of California, Santa Cruz where his doctoral dissertation focused on science, fiction, technology and culture.

Near Future Laboratory

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