… Clockwatcher, a wearable contraption involving a data acquisition module and various sensors recording a range of physiological parameters as you tackle a typical day … a series of algorithms interprets the data to tell you what your body thinks you should be doing at any given time …
… application for a company of 1000 employees that has to cover a 24-hour day – how to plan the shifts to reach a win-win-win proposition, with the workers having minimal health deficits, with company having higher productivity and happier stuff and with government having minimally burden social healthcare system …
… Streetline: A San Francisco-based company that uses the latest sensor technology to help citizens find inexpensive parking quickly, while helping cities to manage their parking resources more efficiently …
… While the idea of Internet balkanization might sound disturbing, in practice this is still not a pressing issue for ISPs in the West. There is, however, one area where Western nations might begin to feel the squeeze: the "Internet of things." …
… Internet of things (IoT) is, after the modern computer (1946) and the Internet (1972), the world's third wave of the ICT industry …
… the concept of IoT was expressed in the form of ‘computers everywhere’ by Professor Ken Sakamura (University of Tokyo) in 1984 and ‘ubiquitous computing’ by Mark Weiser (Xerox PARC) in 1988, the phrase ‘Internet of things’ was coined by Kevin Ashton (Procter & Gamble) in 1998 and developed by the Auto-ID Centre at (MIT) …
… IoT will primarily expand communication from the seven billion people around the world to the estimated 50-70 billion machines …
… experts predict that the IoT will help tackle two of the biggest problems facing mankind today: energy and health care …
… Over the past two years, a number of consumer applications based on IoT technologies have successfully shown the way ahead. Let’s mention some of them: Arduino, an open-source electronics prototyping platform with both a hardware and software component; Arrayent – the so-called ‘Cisco of small things’ – which is basically middleware for companies willing to connect their products to smartphones and computers via the Internet; CeNSE (Central Nervous System for the Earth), a platform built by HP to create a worldwide network of sensors, which will provide a feedback loop for objects and people for measuring vibration, rotation, sound, air flow, light, temperature, pressure and much more; Nike+, a well-known example of sensors in a non-computing device, which allows running shoes to track our run and send the data to our iPod or automatically tweet and post a status report on Facebook or Foursquare; Pachube, an open IoT platform that allows us to tag and share real time sensor data from objects, devices, buildings and environments, both physical and virtual. …
… Open.Sen.se – an open platform for all those who want to imagine and test new devices, installations, scenarios, and applications for the IoT …
… six key challenges (for Europe): (1) mobilise a critical mass of research and innovation effort, (2) develop a new definition of privacy, (3) protect the different building blocks of the IoT … o assure a certain level of security during the cooperation among IoT multiple actors, (4) develop an ethics of the IoT, (5) fully participate in the shrinking world (top-down vs. bottom-up approach), (6) use IoT to assert civilisational values …
