Robert_vinet : RT @ValaAfshar: 6 ways the ... 6 Ways The Internet Of Things Will Develop By 2025. For some time now, futurists have imagined an "Internet of things" where everything from vehicles to appliances are part of one big network. Two decades ago, it seemed like a fanciful idea. Today, it looks inevitable. All the pieces are in place, and some of them are already connected. A new report from the Pew Research Center Internet Project and Elon University’s Imagining the Internet Center looks further ahead to 2025, and asks how things will have moved on by then.
Its conclusions--summarized below--are based on responses from 2,551 people, both Internet "experts" and members of the public. 1: The Internet of things will be full of things By 2025, people will have sensors implanted in their bodies. The best bit about this: less waste. We'll also move away from just interacting with the Internet to letting our devices (wearable, of course) interact for us. 2: Forget about privacy 3: Brain-to-network connectivity won't have arrived--yet 4: The network may not be as seamless as we think.
A database for the internet of things, TempoDB raises $3.2M. TempoDB, a Chicago-based startup specializing in the type of time-series data that comes off sensors and other machines, has raised a $3.2 million series A funding round led by Hyde Park Venture Partners with participation from Chicago Ventures, Divergent Ventures and the company’s existing angel investors. About 18 months since the company launched at TechStars Cloud and GigaOM’s Stacey Higginbotham profiled it, the company’s future is still fuzzy but is starting to shape up. Andrew Cronk According to Co-founder and CEO Andrew Cronk, TempoDB’s sweet spot is probably the emerging internet of things and the related sensors and devices kicking out so much timestamped data. Companies in that space are often young, comfortable with cloud computing (TempoDB is a cloud database), and up on next-generation architectures in which application components are often consumed as services and developers aren’t afraid to use multiple databases for multiple needs.
How The Internet Of Things Will Revolutionize Search. As mobile devices dictate the terms of search and how results are being conveyed to end users, there’s another phenomenon that will greatly influence the future of search – very soon, we’re going to be swimming in more data than we will know what to do with. The rise of the Internet of Things means billions of physical objects will soon generate massive amounts of data 24 hours a day. Not only will this make traditional search methods nearly impossible to use, it will also create an environment where instead of looking for things in the world, those things will be seeking us out to give us all sorts of information that will help us fix, use or buy them. (See also Forget Searching For Content – Content Is About To Start Searching For You.) Search Collides With Internet Of Things When talking about the Internet of Things, it is important to get past the hype and explain exactly what it is: vast numbers of automated physical devices and objects connected to the Internet.
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Dataexplosion. FabLabSquared. Disney to Propose Standards for Web-Connected Toys. Over the last few years, web-connected toys quickly moved from being novelty items to relatively standard fare in a lot of kids' bedrooms. As of now, however, there are no standard platforms for web-connected toys. Disney plans to change this later this month. The company plans to announce a set of industry development and technology standards for these kinds of toys at the Engage Conference and Expo in Santa Clara, CA later this month. At this conference, Armen Mkrtchyan, the technology manger for toys and consumer electronics in Disney's consumer products group, plans to detail the company's exact plans. While the details of Disney's plans are still vague, the conference announcement notes that Disney plans to "address the benefits and issues surrounding the establishment of standards for the development and creation of web connected toys.
" As one of the biggest players in toy industry, Disney surely holds a lot of sway among its peers. IBM CEO on Lessons & Opportunities in Internet of Things. Earlier this month IBM CEO Sam Palmisano gave a speech in London, in which he discussed IBM's products and services in the Internet of Things. He also outlined what IBM sees as emerging opportunities for "smart systems" over the coming decade. It was a significant speech, given that IBM has been probably the leading large tech company promoting the Internet of Things up till now. When you consider that trillions of sensors will be deployed worldwide in the coming decade and the interest in Internet of Things from such high-ranking officials as China's Premier, IBM's use cases so far and its evolving strategy is definitely worth taking note of. IBM's 'Smarter Planet' campaign and accompanying Tumblr blog have been in operation since November 2008.
Palmisano noted one of the key points about Internet of Things early in his speech - it puts computational power into "things no one would recognize as computers. " IBM claims to have developed 1,200 "smarter solutions" so far. The Future of Social Objects. The Internet of Things, when real world objects are connected to the Internet, has been slow to attract the attention of budding entrepreneurs. However, there has been some startup action in so-called "social objects. " We've covered two companies in this domain in recent times, StickyBits and TalesOfThings. The New York Times profiled a third company in this space over the weekend, Itizen. All of these startups are searching for a business model, but there is massive long term potential in this market.
Leandro Agro, CEO of sensor data company WideTag (our review), says that by 2050 objects will be judged more for their 'sociality' than their aesthetic value. It's an intriguing notion, so in this post we imagine what a 'social' tennis racquet might look like in 40 years. Living Objects "Every object should tell its own story. A Social Tennis Racquet (Circa 2050) Using Agro's vision, here is one possible scenario. Imagine a tennis racquet with an RFID chip embedded in it. 6 Smell Sensors That Are Changing the Internet of Things. Sensors that smell help save lives everyday. From cars that won't start because court-ordered breathalyzers smell alcohol in the operator's blood stream, to bomb-sniffing machines at the airport, to complex medical tests that analyze your breath - we are designing machines that smell to make the world a safer place.
Smell sensors are essential to the future of the Internet of Things. From RFID stickers capable of smelling food through the package and updating the food's status to the Web, to our next phone being a "smell phone", engineers are finding innovative ways to help protect our families from being exposed to toxic hazards. Breathalyzers Sensors that measure blood alcohol content by smelling your breath have been around since 1938 when a professor named Rolla Harger invented the Drunkometer. Smell Sensors In Medicine In Israel, Russell Berrie of the Nanotechnology Institute at Technion developed a sensor that can verify lung cancer by smelling a patient's breath. Smell Phones. Les compteurs “intelligents” : des bombes à retardement ? Virus informatiques, usurpations d’identité, hameçonnages, atteintes à la vie privée ou à la réputation, diffamations, vols de données, espionnage industriel ou politique, pédopornographie… le « piratage informatique« , improprement qualifié de « cybercriminalité » (la majeure partie du temps, il s’agit plutôt de délinquance) attise les peurs des gens.
Mais une nouvelle menace, aux conséquences bien plus dommageables, a commencé cet été à faire du bruit dans le Landerneau de la sécurité informatique : qu’adviendrait-il, en effet, si des millions, voire des dizaines de millions de foyers, étaient privés d’électricité plusieurs jours, voire plusieurs semaines durant ? « Du point de vue de l’attaquant -gouvernement hostile, organisation terroriste ou de protection de l’environnement-, le meilleur moyen de s’attaquer à un pays est de lui couper l’électricité. C’est l’équivalent, cyber, d’une attaque nucléaire : quand il n’y a plus d’électricité, tout s’arrête. » Jean-Marc Manach. Kuniavsky's Orange Cone: Designing Read-Write Web-Created Things. A group of popular Web device designers briefly meet and draw up a sketch of their newest gadget. Once they all agree, they hit save and they're done. By the end of the day, hundreds of truckloads of their latest Internet of Things device is not only in the hands of customers on every continent, but each device has already been uniquely modified for each user's specific needs.
This fast approaching era of desktop manufacturing via advanced MakerBots and other 3D printers is in part why ThingM co-founder Mike Kuniavsky runs an annual conference called Sketching in Hardware. The event aims to "bring together a small group of people from technology, education, art and design worlds to talk about how to make creating electronics as easy as drawing with a pencil. " Thanks to ReadWriteWeb reader Droom Zacht, who recognizes Kuniavsky's Orange Cone blog feed as "a milestone of the Internet of Things," we decided to more fully investigate Kuniavsky's work. Background Orange Cone Blog Priorities. Building an Internet of Things (video. What happens when objects start to post their position and status on the internet? Amazing things. Massive data collection could change the world. Companies all over the globe are working on ways to use tracking and internet connectivity to give new digital life to physical objects and locations.
French company Violet‘s special stamps trigger email alerts and messages when you move items around your house. Drop your keys on a sensor, and your spouse can know you got home safely. ioBridge gives you the hardware and software to hack together devices that let your Twitter Feed control your TV, or allow your garage door to have a Facebook Status. Take a moment and imagine a future where every object you own has a presence on the internet. What’s the practical application for such massive data collection? Let’s take a look at some of the early applications of the IoT. But let’s get off the tether. Want to know where to find the most happening spots in San Francisco? A Digression. Internet of Things: Opportunities For Entrepreneurs. Last month the MIT/Stanford Venture Lab ran an event at the Stanford Business School, called The Internet of Things: Sensors Everywhere. The video of the event was recently put up on YouTube. We've embedded the entire hour-long video below, along with a 2-minute video snippet which we think budding entrepreneurs should take note of.
If you have time, the entire event is worth viewing. It delves into current successful use cases for Internet of Things. Panelists include representatives from HP's sensor networks division, a medical software company, and a company which provides sensor-enabled products for vending machines. The first speaker was Michael Chui, a Senior Fellow at McKinsey Global Institute. He explained that the Internet of Things is about incorporating sensors and actuators into physical objects, which "make the physical world part of an information system. " The rest of the event focused on commercial solutions using Internet of Things. Here's the full video of the forum: