WeMo Home Automation Solutions WeMo Partnerships New in 2014, we’ve partnered with Jarden Corporation, maker of Crock-Pot®, Mr. Coffee® and more, to bring home automation to your favorite everyday appliances. The WeMo Story WeMo is a family of simple, ingenious products that make life easier, simpler, better. JOIN THE WeMoVEMENT Discover cool ways people are using WeMo. COMBINE WeMo DEVICES WITH SOCIAL MEDIA WeMo can interact with web-based social media and apps through a great service called IFTTT. Sign up for our newsletter or connect with us. Email Sign Up Your selection has been submitted.Thank you. thank you None Project based learning is “ an instructional approach built upon authentic learning activities that engage student interest and motivation. These activities are designed to answer a question or solve a problem and generally reflect the types of learning and work people do in the everyday world outside the classroom.” taken from PBL Online. Projects and activities are the keys to a better understanding of PBL. They are no longer tasks that students need to finish after a traditionally-taught unit but rather a set of learning experiences and tasks that guide students in inquiry toward answering a central question, solving a problem, or meeting a challenge. Research has clearly proved that projects that are well-designed and based on students experiences improve students motivation to learn, help them see how school connects to the outside world by making learning relevant and meaningful, and promote greater civic participation and global awareness. Watch this video to learn more about PBL
Auto-ID Labs: Auto-ID Labs IS Research Framework Many software-intensive products and systems on the market today reveal a poor level of usability despite the availability of knowledge about how to develop good usability, namely user-centred design. Improving the status of user-centred design has proved to be a challenge in product development. An effective step to start out on the road to such improvements is to carry out a current state analysis. Our research problem was to learn how to perform an effective current state analysis, i.e. an assessment, of user-centred design processes to provide a basis for improvement action. The main result of the research is a novel assessment approach. Our theoretical examinations show that different assessment categories can be identified depending on the different foci and purposes of an assessment. In addition, we created a preliminary theory of usability capability.
Electronic Product Code The Electronic Product Code (EPC) is designed as a universal identifier that provides a unique identity for every physical object anywhere in the world, for all time. Its structure is defined in the EPCglobal Tag Data Standard [1], which is an open standard freely available for download from the website of EPCglobal, Inc.. The canonical representation of an EPC is a URI, namely the 'pure-identity URI' representation that is intended for use when referring to a specific physical object in communications about EPCs among information systems and business application software. The EPCglobal Tag Data Standard also defines additional representations of an EPC identifier, such as the tag-encoding URI format and a compact binary format suitable for storing an EPC identifier efficiently within RFID tags (for which the low-cost passive RFID tags typically have limited memory capacity available for the EPC/UII memory bank). EPCs are not designed exclusively for use with RFID data carriers.
Slope One Slope One is a family of algorithms used for collaborative filtering, introduced in a 2005 paper by Daniel Lemire and Anna Maclachlan.[1] Arguably, it is the simplest form of non-trivial item-based collaborative filtering based on ratings. Their simplicity makes it especially easy to implement them efficiently while their accuracy is often on par with more complicated and computationally expensive algorithms.[1][2] They have also been used as building blocks to improve other algorithms.[3][4][5][6][7][8][9] They are part of major open-source libraries such as Apache Mahout and Easyrec. Item-based collaborative filtering of rated resources and overfitting[edit] When ratings of items are available, such as is the case when people are given the option of ratings resources (between 1 and 5, for example), collaborative filtering aims to predict the ratings of one individual based on his past ratings and on a (large) database of ratings contributed by other users. ). ). Example: [edit]
Ovidiu Vermesan: Workshop on Smart Object Security, 23rd March 2012, Paris Workshop on Smart Object Security, 23rd March 2012, Paris: "Early 2011, the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) solicited position statements for a workshop on 'Interconnecting Smart Objects with the Internet', aiming to get feedback from the wider Internet community on their experience with deploying IETF protocols in constrained environments. The workshop took place in Prague on March, 25th, 2011. During the workshop a range of topics were discussed, including architecture, routing, energy efficiency, and security. The workshop report summarizes the discussion and suggested several next steps." "During the months following the workshop indeed a number of IETF initiatives were started, IETF participants submitted Internet drafts, and hands-on code hacking events at IETF 81 and 80 were organized to better facilitate the exchange of ideas. 1. In case of questions please send a mail to <smart-object-security AT lists.i1b.org>
'LikeBelt' Prototype Lets You Update Facebook with a Hip Thrust | Gadget Lab Wear the LikeBelt to hip-thrust your way to real-world Facebook liking. Image: Deeplocal Facebook has permeated practically every nook and cranny of the online experience. In fact, one’s attached to the article you’re reading now. Well, get ready for Facebook ubiquity to seep into the real world. “There used to be simple ways of saying you like things, like thumbs up, high fives, or humping,” Nathan Martin, CEO of Deeplocal, told Wired. Yes, you read that correctly: humping. As the video below demonstrates, the LikeBelt lets you like things in the real world by thrusting your hips at strategically placed NFC chips. “We wanted to explore NFC and think more creatively about what can be done with it besides just purchasing,” Martin said. The LikeBelt is fairly simple, and you can make it yourself, says Deeplocal’s senior creative engineer Patrick Miller. The belt itself interacts with inexpensive RFID tags coded in an NFC format. The LikeBelt is a prototype, but can be made at home.
Olly and Molly: the web connected smelly robots. by Benjamin Redford Thanks for checking out our project. With your help, we hope to get Olly and Molly out in the world! Molly is the latest addition to the Ollyfactory family.She is a module that turns your tweets into sweets by counting how many times you get retweeted, then releasing a tasty candy when a number you've set is reached.You can stack Molly and Olly together to release sweets and smells.You can set Molly to count a number of re-tweets with our simple app. Olly is a web-connected smelly robot that turns your online notifications into smells. You can fill Olly with any smell you like, such as your partner’s perfume or an essential oil. He's also stackable, meaning you can have different smells for different notifications. We’re also making an app for your computer, so it’s really easy to connect Olly and Molly to your Twitter account. You can set Olly to notify you of an @mention, if you get re-tweeted or for a search you've set. We need a few things to get Olly and Molly out into the world:
Ninja Blocks: Connect your world with the web. by Ninja Blocks Follow us on Facebook or Twitter. Want to bridge the things in your life with the web? Maybe you want to get an alert when your friends are playing on Xbox Live, or send an SMS to your phone when someone is at your front door. A Ninja Block (with old style case) with Motion Sensor connected. Connect your Ninja Block (with old style case) to your favorite web apps using Ninja Cloud. This is the Internet of Things the way it should be: Ninja Cloud is seamlessly integrated into your Ninja Blocks, allowing them to easily listen and talk to web services such as Twitter, Facebook, Dropbox, Weather and more. Ninja Blocks are simple but powerful open source hardware backed by an amazing web service called Ninja Cloud that allows your Ninja Block to talk to your favorite web apps. Each Ninja Block comes with an RGB LED and built-in temperature sensor and accelerometer. Ninja Cloud allows you to control your Ninja Blocks without writing a single line of code. Example Triggers: Example Actions:
Printed Sensors Could Help Save You From Spoiled Food | Gadget Lab Was this chicken safe even before it was fried? Thinfilm could help us find out. Photo: Ariel Zambelich/Wired Whenever I pick up a package of frozen raw meat from the grocery store, I wonder, “Has this been frozen the whole time? How many times did it thaw and re-freeze?” But it looks like the ambiguity is about to end. “It’s a smart object that’s entirely self-contained,” Jennifer Ernst, Thinfilm’s North American VP told Wired. That may sound familiar. Thinfilm’s first-gen sensors will be able to cache data about the object itself, on the item itself. In the past, we’ve seen thin food sensors that change color as food begins to spoil. Unlike the simple color-changing strips, ThinFilm’s technology is composed of a few different components: a temperature sensor (called a thermistor), a battery, addressable memory, and an optional contact-based readout or display. Thinfilm’s technology is also different from existing systems that contain or beam out information.