Home Automation is an EasyHard problem | Scott Jenson. The level of hype around the “Internet of Things” (or IoT) is getting a bit out of control. It may be the technology that crashes into Gartner’s trough of disillusionment faster than any other. But that doesn’t mean we can’t figure things out. Quite the contrary, as the trade press collectively loses its mind over the IoT, I’m spurred on further to delve deeper. In my mind, the biggest barrier we have to making the IoT work comes from us. We are being naive as our overly simplistic understanding of how we control the IoT is likely going to fail and generate a huge consumer backlash. But let’s backup just a bit. The Internet of Things is a vast sprawling concept. But of course, it’s much more than just coffee machines. However, I am deeply concerned these Home Automation scenarios are too simplistic.
I’m reminded of one of the key learnings of the artificial intelligence (or AI) community. Moravec’s paradox created two types of AI problems: HardEasy and EasyHard. 1. 2. 3. Privacy in the Smart Home - Why we need an Intranet of Things. The Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the big hypes at the moment - and as usual with such a buzzword, it does not mean much at all (or rather it means something different, depending on who you talk to). IoT is often used synonymously with M2M (machine-to-machine). From my point of view, this is not a valid equation - the IoT is trifold, M2M just being one part of it. M2M was coined by the telco operators and thus it usually meant in the past to stick a SIM-card on a remote device and have it communicate through the GSM network.
Work was usually done in customer projects which had the goal to remotely administrate and monitor distributed devices, be it solar panels, trucks or coffee machines. None of these solutions actually wanted to connect anything to the Internet, they were usually proprietary and closed - or if you want to formulate it positively: they were targeting vertical markets. Let me give you an example that everybody should be familiar with: The Smart Meter. A New Perspective On The Internet Of Things. Internet Of Things Weekly | Issue 1 The Beginning of a Great Adventure. Welcome to the first issue of Internet Of Things Weekly.
I hope you find it informative and useful. I sure have learned a lot just getting this far. This is just a starting point and I plan to smooth things out and improve the newsletter with time. I'd love to hear what you think. Is there something you particularly like? Dislike? Supposedly the first ever beacon/iBeacon hackathon in San Francisco. Amicojeko/YouCantTouchThis · GitHub Fun little introductory project for those interested in building and configuring their own sensors. The home automation paradox - O'Reilly Radar Will an IoT system need to be able to read your mind to be useful? WunderBar by relayr - Dragon Innovation Crowd funded, developer friendly sensor set coming in the summer of 2014. How One Business Could Use iBeacon for Cause Marketing — Selfish Giving Another interesting use of iBeacons.
iBeacon Sets Consumers’ Phones to Stun | Re/code An interesting list of players in the IOT world. Press Release Page Mother • Sen.se. Reality matters — Estimote Beacons are enriching experiences at the Rubens House museum. Antwerp: Europe’s city of diamonds. Now, also a place of brilliant ideas, where culture and art meet technology. There is a museum showcasing the ways in which Estimote Beacons connect art and technology.
Digital agency Prophets created a mobile app for the Rubens House that completely transforms the traditionally one-dimensional visitor experience. They created a way to experience an engaging mixture of physical artworks of one of the greatest painters to ever walk the earth, with a digital tour of his life and times. Propehts took their time with the Beacons. Before installing them, they did a lot of testing, to find out about the range, potential of the technology and possible issues. As Samuel Joos, developer at Prophets, explained, Developing for the Beacons proved to be really easy. The final version of the app leads you through the history of the Rubens House and its famous tenant from the very moment you pass the gate: Start hacking, be promoted by Estimote!
Google mapping & charitable funding combine to show deforestation. The Global Forest Watch project may become a fantastic tool for consumers interested in finding out whether or not their products have really been sourced from responsibly felled trees or anybody interested in gaining an overall view on deforestation. It's hoped Greenpeace will find solace in the Global Forest Watch project created this week by the World Resources Institute. The project currently has 40 partners, although it seems Greenpeace and the Forest Stewardship Council, mentioned in the first linked article here, have yet to sign up for the groundbreaking project.
The major funders of this project were the Norwegian Climate and Forests Initiative, the U.S. Agency for International Development, UK Department for International Development, Global Environment Facility and the Tilia Fund. Read more... The project utilizes cloud computing services provided by the Google Earth project. Internet of Things needs a new interface | Internet of Things, machine-to-machine communications, industrial internet, quantified self, connected devices, so on and so forth…so many ways to describe a world where devices, sensors and actuators are all linked together, connected to each other in the cloud, and sharing information + commands across common communication protocols. Reduction in the cost of hardware development, simplification and development of advanced low power communication protocols, and immense advancement in our ability to acquire, store, manage, and process big data has resulted in amazing progress over the last few years in the internet of things.
We are quickly entering a world where we can imagine a vast number of devices around us to be internet connected, collecting data real-time from a plethora of sensors, storing, sharing and processing that data in the cloud, and sending messages back to actuators to affect change. Semiconductor Wireless Sensor Internet of Things (IoT): Market Shares, Strategies, and Forecasts, Worldwide,... -- DUBLIN, February 21, 2014.
Research and Markets Logo. DUBLIN, February 21, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Research and Markets ( has announced the addition of a new report "Semiconductor Wireless Sensor Internet of Things (IoT): Market Shares, Strategies, and Forecasts, Worldwide, 2014 to 2020" to their offering. (Logo: ) Worldwide markets are poised to achieve significant growth as the Semiconductor Wireless Sensor Network is used to implement the Internet of things and to monitor pipelines, oil wells, and healthcare patients to illustrate the variety of projects supported by these networks.
Semiconductor wireless sensor networks are used for bridge monitoring, implementing the smart grid, implementing the Internet of things, and monitoring for security implementation. With 9 billion devices connected to the Internet in 2014, phenomenal growth is likely to occur when that number rises to 100 billion by 2020. 1. Internet of Things: Not Just a Collection of Networks. Imagine getting an email, text or Facebook message notifying you that you have been tagged in a Facebook post by the packaging line that will be holding an event next Saturday called “Control electric axes for excessive waste.”
The message also notes that the compressor room identifying “preventive lubrication” and the oven identifying “thermoregulation check” will join the packaging line event. At the end of the message is a question asking: Will you participate? Science fiction? Or the type of message you should expect to get in the months ahead? This type of interconnectedness between machines, systems, and people is what the Internet of Things (IoT) is all about. Unfortunately, many of the “things” discussed are inappropriately categorized as “Internet of Things.”
The more operators are involved in social networks, the more natural – or even necessary – it will be that devices or systems be able to communicate with them on the same network. Co-creation with customers: benefits requiring an effort - Co-society. BY Fernando L. Mompó on 11 / 02 / 2014 Consumers (at least a growing part of them) are no longer passive. Some of them can even be considered creative. That’s the reason why forward thinking companies are inviting them to help them come up with their next generation of products and services. Customer-led innovation is one of the most exciting developments in open innovation. But customer Co-creation and collaboration comes also with its difficulties and potential problems. Do not just be fooled by wishful thinking. On the other hand, Co-creation with customers offers many benefits already known by companies that take this path. Of course, this does not mean that internal R&D and Innovation departments are excluded.
To reap the benefits of open innovation, managers must understand what to open, how to open it and how to manage the resulting problems. Using Open Innovation to Identify the Best Ideas. Focus Areas | Michael Skok. Company Formation: Hiring. Funding strategies to go the distance. Landscape Maps – Internet of Things Preview | Claro Partners. Internet of Intelligent Things: Bringing Artificial Intelligence into Things and Communication Networks. A Guide to the Internet of Things Infographic. How the internet of things could make media physical again - Quartz. Not so long ago, every act of consumption began with a ritual. We pulled records from sleeves and perched them on turntables, slid books from shelves, watched as VHS tapes were ingested with a soft ca-chunk. Qleek, from Paris-based startup Ozenge, aims to return our digital media to a state in which they can be collected, stored, handled, played and shared in the same way that physical media were, once.
The makers of Qleek want you to pick up a wooden hexagon printed with, for example, the artwork for an album or mix, place it on a reader, and hear the corresponding tracks play on your device of choice. At first, Qleek sounds as if it will only interest the kind of nostalgics who want their houseguests to see how refined is their taste. But it’s an example of a larger phenomenon with the potential to redefine the nature of human-computer interfaces. The problem: virtual interfaces don’t engage critical human talents Approaching a solution: cheap connected devices. For Google, a leg up in the artificial intelligence arms race. By Verne Kopytoff FORTUNE -- Google's executives have long dreamed of solving one of the technology industry's biggest riddles. How do you predict what people want -- hockey scores or new Ugg boots, for example -- before they even ask for it?
Reading user's minds, or at least seeming to, would make Google's products that much faster and more convenient. It could also help the company fend off rivals. Last week, Google (GOOG) took its biggest step yet to ramp up its predictive powers. The addition could help Google's perpetual efforts to improve its search results and make its ads more relevant. "Artificial intelligence can become part of the fabric for all of Google's products," said Colin Sebastian, an analyst with R.W. MORE: Google to investors - we still care about hardware. Artificial intelligence isn't new. Google has been working on artificial intelligence almost since its founding 16 years ago. MORE: Why Google, not Apple, bought Tony Fadell's Nest Labs MORE: How to innovate?
Smart Home Shocker: My Cats Are Out To Get Me. ReadWriteHome is an ongoing series exploring the implications of living in connected homes. When I'm at work, my cats—Gamera and Gojira—love to defy me. I know this because my smart home tells me so. People have all sorts of reasons for connecting their homes. Some people want to monitor the nanny, or keep an eye on things for security or safety reasons. So when SmartThings asked if I wanted to check out one of its DIY smart home kits, I jumped at the chance. The Art Of Surveillance In 2012, SmartThings tore through its $250,000 Kickstarter goal by raising $1.2 million. I can see why. I felt a little silly as I did so, given that I was essentially prepping for a feline stakeout. I also put a multi-sensor on my bedroom door, which tells me when a cat enters during the day.
The next morning, I got an alert. She then looked at the camera and, as if to protest being monitored, coughed up a hairball. Connecting Humans To Their Homes Smart Homes Get Even Wiser Does that sound far-fetched? Google Drops $3.2B On Nest: Data Grab Or The Googlization Of The Smart Home. Within minutes of Google announcing plans to buy Nest—the connected home products company known for its smart (and attractive) thermostats and smoke alarms—people immediately started wondering if the tech giant is developing its own smart home.
Makes sense. Judging by the Consumer Electronics Show, connected home technologies are the new black for 2014. And Google has the deep pockets to really push ahead in that area. Indeed, it just blew $3.2 billion dollars on the Palo Alto, Calif., home-gadget maker. The deal may not be as out-of-the-blue as it appears. Last month, Google was rumored to be developing a smart thermostat of its own. And the company's independent investing division, Google Ventures, was already an investor in Nest. Nest quickly hit the Web to promise that its data won't become a free-for-all info buffet for the data-hungry Google machine (see below), but it's too early to tell what may ultimately happen once the deal finally goes through.
What Intel's Edison Means: One Card To Smarten Up Dumb Gadgets And Connect Them All. Guest author Alex Salkever is the global product manager of cloud computing/IaaS at Telefónica. Intel’s just-announced Edison computer—the one the size of an SD card—illustrates the corollary to Moore’s Law. If you can jam more and more circuits on a piece of silicon, you can also make computers that are smaller and smaller.
And this heralds a whole new way of thinking about computing, clouds and connectivity. See also: Meet Edison, Intel’s Tiny Plan To Power The Next Generation Of Wearables Intel, to its credit, mainly envisions the new Edison computer as a vehicle for building wearable computing devices. That’s correct. Equally important, however, are additional possibilities around retrofitting, cloud computing, and connectivity. Make that, almost impossible. This type of capability can be hacked right now, no doubt, by serious users.
Then there is the possibility of cloud computing. See also: What's Holding Up The Internet Of Things. SmartThings' Alex Hawkinson: 'We're Debugging How Your House Responds To You' ReadWriteBuilders is a series of interviews with developers, designers and other architects of the programmable future. Alex Hawkinson just wanted some peace of mind. But when he went looking for a simple, affordable way to monitor his family's house when he wasn't around, all he found was frustration. So instead of throwing up his hands, Hawkinson built his own. Two years ago, his startup, SmartThings, took to Kickstarter with plans for a connected home hub and sensors. The goal was $250,000; it raised $1.2 million dollars. Investors kicked in another $12.5 million last year just before the Consumer Electronics Show, where the company unveiled its own platform called SmartThings Labs.
And now that technology is one of several nascent building blocks of the Internet of Things. How A Cabin Disaster Turned Into Opportunity ReadWrite: I read that SmartThings was born out of a family-home disaster that cost $80,000 in damages. Alex Hawkinson: We have a family home in the mountains. AH: No. For Google, a leg up in the artificial intelligence arms race. The Internet of Things. Manifesto for the Experience of Things. Fork and contribute on @github. #UX for #iot. How to design for the Internet of Things | Web design. M2M and the Internet of Things: A guide. Las 10 mejores aplicaciones para disfrutar de la playa este verano. A woman to add to your IoT list. The Emerging IoT Business Landscape: Insights from the IoT World Forum | Claro Partners. How-startup-funding-works1.jpg (1000×1331)
Cómo desarrollar y lanzar exitosamente una campaña en Kickstarter | Isra García - blog sobre marketing, transformación digital, la nueva economía conectada, cambio, disrupción, incertidumbre, liderazgo y nuevas formas de comunicación más allá de social me. Www.neul.com/neul/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/NL-000874-PB-5-Iceni-Product-Brief.pdf. Www.argondesign.com/media/uploads/files/SWAN_2013_Conference_Argon_Design_Presentation_v2.pdf. Przn010. Pierrick Thebault: How will smart objects look like? Wothings: Designing for the Web of Things. Pierrick Thebault: How will smart objects look like? 5 Questions About the Internet of Things.
Del Design Thinking al Leancamp o cómo transformar los modelos de negocio. eCall - Exposiciones_Template - MWCentre. Jennifer Gabrys: Environment and citizen sensing - Exposiciones_Template - MWCentre. 4 Big Opportunities in Artificial Intelligence. So You Want to Build an Internet of Things Business - Gordon Hui. What Intel's Edison Means: One Card To Smarten Up Dumb Gadgets And Connect Them All. This is not the year of wearables but the year the hype dies, says Evernote CEO.