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.
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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
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Biomapping is a community mapping project in which over the last four years with more than 1500 people have taken part in.
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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.
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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
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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
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"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
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Usman Haque (Pachube, Connected Environments) says: “When authoritative sources does not exist (or cannot be trusted) then
bottom-up data acquisition is one of the crucial means of making sense
of a situation, whether that's through making maps, or observing
phenomena, taking notes, making drawings, graphs or whatever. How about the idea of developing a citizen-built map and schedule of
electricity outage around Karachi? Read more
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Store, share & discover realtime sensor, energy and environment data from objects, devices & buildings around the world. Pachube is a convenient, secure & scalable platform that helps you connect to & build the 'internet of things'.
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The Internet of Things panel is calling for proposals dealing with the human aspects of the Internet of Things. There is a lot of focus from logistics, efficiency, anti theft, home automation, smart cities, control and surveillancen, radical transparency and open innovation. We believe however that IoT is an ontological shift towards a different relationship between men, things and the world. Men have made things 'holy' by their acts of will and things have allowed to be made 'holy' because of a particular strand of existence running through time. Read more
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During the IoT conference last month in Brussels, I noticed a general confidence in the possibility to shape the Internet of Things into whatever form we see most fit. But I am asking myself how much of this power is real and how much is imagined by the different participants in the universe of IoT. The European commission has power to restrain by rules and to nurture by subsidies. And corporations have a choice in product, service and presentation. Consumers have an influence by choice in purchases.Read more
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Gordon Farrar in 'Untangling the web': "WOULD you feel hurt if your refrigerator stopped returning your
emails? Would you be annoyed to have your dinner interrupted by a pot
plant demanding a drink? Are you friends with your toilet on Facebook? Do you like the idea of a virtual avatar that contains
your personality and memories — the essence of you — that could
communicate with your descendants? It's only a matter of time."Read more
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From Zach Shelby's blog: "The 6LoWPAN WG is finishing its main objectives of finishing the new Header Compression and Neighbor Discovery optimizations. We expect both drafts to start the proposed standard process soon. This document specifies an IPv6 header compression format for IPv6 packet delivery in 6LoWPAN networks. The compression format relies on shared context to allow compression of arbitrary prefixes. How the information is maintained in that shared context is out of scope."
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Heart Chamber Orchestra by Régine Debatty: "In this performance by Erich Berger and PURE from TERMINALBEACH, 12 classical musicians use their heartbeats to control in real time a computer composition and visualization environment. The musicians wearing ECG (electrocardiogram) sensors enter one by one on stage."Read more
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