Library/download/IJSWIS_SemIoT.pdf. Using the Emotive EPOC as a robot-controlling device. Www.cloudbus.org/papers/Internet-of-Things-Vision-Future2012.pdf. In the Programmable World, All Our Objects Will Act as One. In our houses, cars, and factories, we’re surrounded by tiny, intelligent devices that capture data about how we live and what we do.
Internet of Things :) 4 Technologies Demonstrating the Future of Internet of Things. Leap Motion. Leap Motion With Windows. Review: Facebook Home. When the iPhone was new, Steve Jobs showed one to Alan Kay and asked him if it was “good enough to criticize.”
Kay, a computing pioneer, had been a hero to Apple’s founder: in 1972, when much of the world was still using magnetic tape, he had proposed to his colleagues at Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center a small, portable, and, above all, personal computer called the Dynabook. Apple borrowed slavishly from Kay’s vision. Over a quarter-century later, Kay told Jobs that the iPhone could be worth criticizing—but only if Apple enlarged the screen to the size of a 5-by-8-inch Moleskine notebook.
Kay’s 1972 proposal specified the properties of screen, processor, and memory, but the model of computing it described was as much moral as technical: a world of software “objects” that could be directly manipulated by the machine’s users, who might be children. Facebook has different values. Big Data + Mobile + Sensors + Visualization + Gamification = Quantified Self.
By @ClintonBon – Clinton Bonner If you’ve yet to dive into material and begin to understand the impact of what is called the quantified self, we suggest you do.
This movement is about to get huge as the sheer volume of those classifying themselves as self-quantifiers is doubling annually. As barriers to quantified self fall – via ever smaller sensors, ever smarter data and ever more passive ways to collect and analyze the data – the continuation of individuals into the greater movement accelerates. How it works - Zimride. Quantified Self [SENSORS], Bio-controllers of virtuality, Digital Health [APPS], Self-[GAME]ification.
The “Quantified Self”: How Sensors Can Allow You to Understand Yourself. [This article is written by our Guest Editor Dr.
Wenzhe Zhou, Co-founder of Brainpage, which is a big data processing & analysis start-up, focused on cloud-based engine for time series data and sensors. The company’s Hadoop-based service provides developers and industry partners easy-to-use, scalable and flexible database and analysis solutions.] DIY 3D sensor hits Kickstarter. A new DIY project dubbed DUO has hit Kickstarter, which can best be described as a high-performance 3D sensor for the masses.
The developers behind the initiative claim the unit is the world's first and only DIY 3D sensing platform. The kit is available in several configurations, including open hardware plans, molded cases, kits, and fully assembled devices. No matter which kit you choose, there will be open source drivers, an SDK, and software examples available. The developers say that once assembled, the user will have a professional grade platform for 3D sensing using stereo vision. Key features of the device include high-performance and low latency with low-cost and a fully customizable build using off-the-shelf components. Internet Your Thing by DaisyWorks. Meet the Daisy WiFi: a small, low-power network device with sensors and controls.
The Daisy enables you to connect sensors and controls to the Internet for monitoring and controlling your world. You can create automated actions that are triggered whenever a sensor reports a specific value or crosses a threshold. Call my phone if the temperature in my house drops below a specified valueSend me an email if the door on my mailbox was opened (i.e. mail arrived)Send me an instant message if a leak is detected in my basementAutomatically open your garage or pet door as you approach home You can also control things remotely through the browser without the hassle of complex networking issues.
Toggle a device on and off from your phone, tablet, or web browser at work You can schedule complex rules that execute with multiple daisies or multiple scenarios: Wovyn: Weaving your Internet of Things by Wovyn. The Internet continues to change everything, and combined with our mobile lifestyles things are getting very cool!
Google Sensors Are Data Mining I/O Attendees - And They Don't Care. If you're visiting the Google I/O developers conference this week, you're a tiny part of a giant Google experiment to sniff out everything from your body heat to your breath.
Google is even listening to your footfalls as part of its Data Sensing Lab I/O 2013. Google’s I/O experiment unites sensors, ‘big data,’ and the cloud. Google tricked out its entire I/O conference with hundreds of sensors this week.
Today, we got a glimpse at some of the data and the work that went into making it happen. Michael Manoochehri, with Google’s cloud engineering group, explained the project from Google’s perspective: It’s a big experiment designed to help Google figure out how to use its many cloud tools to collect, organize, and analyze large quantities of sensor-driven data. Google I/O data sensors by the numbers 400: The number of sensor modules (aka “motes”) that have been plugged in around the conference center.525: The number of sensor modules that Google built for this project. To pull off the project, Google needed some hardware-hacking experts. From VentureBeat Location, location, location — Not using geolocation to reach your mobile customers?
SmartThings: Make Your World Smarter by SmartThings. Internet of Things and Kickstarter. A perfect match? Internet of Things and Crowdfunding Kickstarter and other crowdfunding platforms are quickly becoming the first stop for Makers and hardware manufacturers to test their product concept on the market, cover bulk upfront supplier costs, and bring their connected products to life.
Twine, the sensor block system developed by Supermechanical was the first web enabled product to be a breakout hit raising over half a million dollars in early January, and the Pebble watch blew through Kickstarter's old funding records by raising more than $10 million during its month-long campaign.Below we take a look at some of the successful (and a few not so successful) Internet of Things related projects that are driving this trend and where they currently stand in their development process. // Ongoing Campaigns Unsuccessful in their funding: Will these projects turn into viable companies? Can hardware costs be driven low enough to generate mass market adoption?