We are at the cusp of the emergence of a network of objects that empowers computers to perceive the world for themselves and act independently on our behalf. This has the potential to significantly impact the way we optimise the operation of cities, buildings, infrastructure and business.

"The Internet of Things continues to expand its reach with many platforms becoming more mature and products and services making it into the wild.  We have compiled a list of 100 people influencing the topic on a daily basis whether through their evangelizing, standardizing or through their own companies."

"Keeping in touch with people has gradually become more than being “always on, sometimes off”. At Good Night Lamp, we would like to think that people can share parts of their lives with their families, friends and lovers in more subtle ways with the help of an ever sensitive, invisible and intelligent technology. Lighting!" great little product idea

"The technology has other potential benefits. It will allow scientists to compile a real time database of how much water is being used across the continent. Greater predictability of breakdowns could also help drive down the cost of repairs." interesting use of mobile phone networks in Africa for proactive maintenance - aim is to reduce repair time from 1 month to 1 day.

"This privatisation of the immaterial city is akin to that of its material host which has been exposed by the recent Occupy movements and discussed in books such as Anna Minton’s Ground Control. When access to data is privatised, we become the product and the advertisers become the users, a phenomenon already being witnessed in the privatisation of the internet by companies such as Facebook, Google, Twitter and Amazon, in which we are all, to a greater or lesser extent, complicit. This is something that needs careful consideration before we all sign up to being ‘smart’." great points

"Green party politician Malte Spitz sued to have German telecoms giant Deutsche Telekom hand over six months of his phone data that he then made available to ZEIT ONLINE. We combined this geolocation data with information relating to his life as a politician, such as Twitter feeds, blog entries and websites, all of which is all freely available on the internet. By pushing the play button, you will set off on a trip through Malte Spitz's life."

"Using advanced GPS, GSM, and iridium technology we bring end to end transparency into the world of logistics. With our real time visibility solutions, we deliver a constant monitoring of shipments and assets around the globe."

"Wind across the country, activity mapping the distance from the primary site
Get emergency flashlight buzzer - latitude and longitude on a map the distance to the primary location of each point on a map to the current offshore wind map of the current value of the national disaster operations for a replacement battery action (such as shelter 炊出) perseverance will be a link to search for GPS maps can be obtained by address and zip code in the position of the radio hit is not available, we look forward to report such actions to speak for Hack Nozomi Kaname Japan has agreed to East earthquake (Tohoku region Pacific earthquake)"

a collection of links to smart city webpages

behaviour change in Amsterdam

Documents from recent TSB IoT meetings

"The IoT Week is an event organised together with four European Projects, IoT-A, IoT-i, CASAGRAS2, SMART SANTANDER and with the support of the European Research Cluster on Internet of Things (IERC). During this week, you can get to know some of the most advanced EU research projects and initiatives regarding Internet of Things, along with international speakers."

IBM Smarter Planet video introducing the internet of things

Bruce Sterling Google Talk on Spimes and the Internet of Things.

"The nation’s two largest carriers added more connected devices last quarter than postpaid subscriptions, according to data released this morning by Chetan Sharma, a wireless analyst. Carriers added 2.6 million connected devices and 1.2 million contract customers. "

"In 2011, China will enter its 12th Five-Year Plan period (2011-2015). The development goals, directions and industry strategies for the entire plan were set in October 2010, and will be of critical importance for China's development over the next five to ten years. This report looks at the core directions for development in the 12th Five-Year Plan."

One of the goals of the IoT-i project is to observe, structure, and shape ongoing research activities in the field of the Internet of Things, in order to establish the leadership of Europe in this domain.

'The "Privacy Impact Assessment Framework for RFID applications" has been endorsed by the Article 29 Working Party on 11 February 2011 successfully completing a task that started nearly two years ago.'

"Qiy is an independent and secure utility, which enables an individual to create an intelligent personal domain online, thereby giving an individual control, overview and insight into their personal data." interesting video

"Many of the initial developments towards the Internet of Things have focused on the combination of Auto-ID and networked infrastructures in business-to-business logistics and product lifecycle applications. However, the Internet of Things is more than a business tool for managing business processes more efficiently and more effectively – it will also enable a more convenient way of life. Since the term "Internet of Things" first came to attention when the Auto-ID Center launched their initial vision for the EPC network for automatically identifying and tracing the flow of goods within supply-chains, increasing numbers of researchers and practitioners have further developed this vision. The authors in this book provide a research perspective on current and future developments in the Internet of Things."

"SmartSantander proposes a unique in the world city-scale experimental research facility in support of typical applications and services for a smart city. This unique experimental facility will be sufficiently large, open and flexible to enable horizontal and vertical federation with other experimental facilities and stimulates development of new applications by users of various types including experimental advanced research on IoT technologies and realistic assessment of users’ acceptability tests. The facility will comprise more than 20,000 sensors and will be based on a real life IoT deployment in an urban setting. The core of the facility will be located in the city of Santander, the capital of the region of Cantabria situated on the north coast of Spain, and its surroundings. SmartSantander will enable the Future Internet of Things to become a reality."

"MANAGEMENT gurus are always discovering the next big thing (and source of income). Last year it was emerging markets and "frugal innovation". This year it is "the internet of things", or, as it has rapidly become 'the internet of everything'." interesting 'doubter' piece that is so important for tech developers to read and understand.

"... non-human objects, internet connected devices like digital picture frames, web-connected GPS devices and broadband TVs, came online with AT&T and Verizon in greater numbers last quarter than new human subscribers did."

"The ERRT is a network of business leaders established to express the views of large retailers on a range of issues of common interest.Their businesses operate worldwide and represent a cross-section of the retail sector. The combined turnover of the ERRT members is over €400 billion."

"Already today, 1.5 billion people use the Internet. In a few years, once the Internet has become genuinely mobile, over 4 billion users and billions more devices and objects will be connected anywhere and anytime. But before this can happen, the Internet must undergo important changes. Designed in the seventies, it is starting to face technical limitations which hamper its potential. Browse through our website: discover the opportunities and challenges facing the Internet, and Europe's leading role in shaping its future." the main EC future internet portal - should point to most of the FI activity in Europe.

"TRON is an open real-time operating system kernel design, and is an acronym for "The Real-time Operating system Nucleus". The project was started by Prof. Dr. Ken Sakamura of the University of Tokyo in 1984. The project's goal is to create an ideal computer architecture and network, to provide for all of society's needs." an early example of internet of things research via Larry Taylor from Zigbee Alliance 'why would you want a connected vacuum cleaner? so that it turns off when your phone rings'

"The IPSO Alliance is the primary advocate for IP networked devices for use in energy, consumer, healthcare and industrial applications. The IPSO Alliance is a non-profit association of more than 50 members from leading technology, communications and energy companies." IP for Smart Objects, founded 2008, via Patrick Wetterwald (Cisco)

"Council is a loose group of professionals with different ideas and opinions. We sometimes differ and will probably clash. We prefer to host the full range of opinions on what will be a small avalanche of disruptive innovations. We do have something in common though. We have been through the full range of emotions and conceptual breakdown that comes with grasping the territory, the full logistical, business, social and philosophical implications of the Internet of Things."

Beijing event via Rob at IoT Council

"IoT-A, the European lighthouse integrated project addressing the Internet-of-Things Architecture, proposes the creation of an architectural reference model together with the definition of an initial set of key building blocks. Together they are envisioned as crucial foundations for fostering a future Internet of Things. Using an experimental paradigm, IoT-A will combine top-down reasoning about architectural principles and design guidelines with simulation and prototyping to explore the technical consequences of architectural design choices."

"The aim of European Research Cluster on the Internet of Things is to address the large potential for IoT-based capabilities in Europe and to coordinate the convergence of ongoing activities."

"CONET, the Cooperating Objects Network of Excellence, is a EU-funded project under ICT, Framework 7. The CONet project started on June 1st, 2008 and has a duration of 4 years, with a total funding of 4 Mio. EUR. The CONET Consortium is working on building a strong Community in the area of Cooperating Objects including research, public sector and industry partners from the areas of embedded systems, pervasive computing and wireless sensor networks."

“ 'Lay's chips are made from potatoes grown by farmers across America,' the brand explains. More than 80 farms from 27 states across the country, in fact, grow the potatoes that become Lay’s potato chips. With that idea in mind, Frito-Lay last year launched a campaign featuring the farmers that grow them. The “Lay's Mobile Farm” Tour — which wraps up this week — has been part of that effort, as is the Chip Tracker, which lets consumers trace where a particular bag of chips was made."

"The questions then become: Who assigns the identifier? Where and how is the information in the database made accessible? How are the details, in both the chip and the database, secured? What is the legal framework holding those in charge accountable? Glossing over such matters could seriously compromise any personal or corporate information associated with devices connected to the internet. Should that happen through ignorance or carelessness, the internet of things could be hobbled before it gets out of the gate." interesting comments in response to this 'where is the of IoT' article.

Good collection of videos from IxD earlier this year (just after ETech).

"this book summarises the approaches and results of the SANY project by following the example of the ORCHESTRA project, whose work on an open architecture for risk management has provided the foundation for SANY. The acronym SANY stands for Sensors Anywhere and embraces trends and approaches identified by ORCHESTRA, many of which have by now developed into reality. As a major Integrated Project in the Sixth Framework Programme of the European Commission, SANY extends the work of ORCHESTRA into the domain of sensor networks and standards based sensor web enablement."

"This is Part 3, where we'll look at Pachube's business model and delve into its platform. I spoke at length to Pachube founder Usman Haque to find out how Pachube intends to make money, how it will compete against big vendors such as IBM and Microsoft, and why it chose to be an open source platform." open to get them using it today and then once they like it they will he prepared to pay for the necessary tweaking (privacy, scalability, security etc.)

"This survey and report has been researched and published by Beecham Research, an independent analyst and consulting firm that specializes in M2M and the “Internet of Things” and serves both the adopter and technology supplier communities." free but you need to sign up to their site.

Final Workshop of the Study on "Monitoring and Control: Today's Market and its evolution till 2020" Some useful facts and figures on ubicomp market esp. in Europe

New, Communication to the European Parliament, the Council, the EESC and the committee of the Regions: Internet of Things - An action plan for Europe (June 18 2009). pdf is at http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/policy/rfid/documents/commiot2009.pdf

"…is the title of a talk I gave at Frontiers of Interaction V in Rome yesterday, primarily about the territory of “the Internet of Things” moving from one of academic and technological investigation to one of commercial design practice, and what that might mean for designers working therein." excellent talk by Matt Jones - worth a flick through the pdf - i loved the Negroponte / Gerschenfield switch!

"The real-time city is now real! The increasing deployment of sensors and hand-held electronics in recent years is allowing a new approach to the study of the built environment. The way we describe and understand cities is being radically transformed - alongside the tools we use to design them and impact on their physical structure." and in particular the flickr tourism project: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=4653470

via Jennifer Magnolfi at ETech "What if our buildings could respond to change as easily as we do? What if buildings never became obsolete, but instead could keep up with our own speed of adaptation and change? What if they were Always Building? Could technology reinvent our environments? If our habitats were programmable, what would we ask of them?"

When can i get these..."Siftables are cookie-sized computers with motion sensing, neighbor detection, graphical display, and wireless communication. They act in concert to form a single interface: users physically manipulate them - piling, grouping, sorting - to interact with digital information and media. Siftables provides a new platform on which to implement tangible, visual and mobile applications."

Eric Paulos manifesto: We must change our mantra: “not usability but usefulness and relevancy to our world, its citizens, and our environment" We have the power to create an entirely new form of citizen volunteerism, community involvement, and participation. We need to think big impact – outside of our immediate world of academic ubiquitous computing.

A city’s attractiveness is determined by a wide range of elements based on their own wealth, security (i.e. The Safe City By Leo van den Berg), history, cultural assets, and excellent landscape, measured with quantitative data such as in Richard Florida’s work and the indexes of Mercer, and the UN’s State of the World’s Cities, Quality of “Business” Life.

The Internet is evolving - in its use and in its technology. Born from the vision to create an open infrastructure to network computers across the world, the Internet has become a socio-economic backbone of our society, with countless private and business users as well as governments relying on it on a daily basis. The drivers for this evolution are a mix of emerging players with diverse and potentially changing interests, be it users, operators, manufacturers, service and content providers, together with advances in technology that have become available over the years.

Professor Guang-Zhong Yang, Chairman of the Imperial College London Imaging Sciences Centre, and colleagues, are developing a miniaturized Bluetooth enabled monitor that promises to improve training and performance of athletes. In addition, Dr. Yang's startup called Sensixa is working on a whole line of interesting physiologic monitors.

In September, a group of high-tech companies that includes Cisco and Sun formed the IP for Smart Objects Alliance.

IF YOU drop your laptop computer, a chip built into it will sense the acceleration and protect the delicate moving parts of its hard disk before it hits the ground. A group of researchers led by Jesse Lawrence of Stanford University are putting the same accelerometer chip to an intriguing new use: detecting earthquakes. They plan to create a network of volunteer laptops that can map out future quakes in far greater detail than traditional seismometers manage. [via olivier, thanks!]

some quick notes from Adam Greenfield's keynote talk. Adam is instructor at the Interactive Telecommunications Program & well known from his book Everyware about the social & ethical implications of ubiquitous computing. some general observations, including 5 ethical guidelines for the design of ubiquitous systems

Each badge is fitted with a set of motion-sensors, a microphone, a microprocessor and a radio transceiver that allow it to sense and broadcast back to base a person’s location, the direction he is moving in if walking, the movements of his body if he is stationary, and the timbre and inflection of his voice if he is talking—together, of course, with the length of the conversation and the identity of the other party if he, too, is a badge-wearer.

Urban Atmospheres' Participatory Urbanism presents an important new shift in mobile device usage - from communication tool to “networked mobile personal measurement instrument”. We explore how these new “instruments” enable entirely new participatory urban lifestyles and create novel mobile device usage models.

As a research area, wireless sensor networks have been investigated for number of years, primarily for military purposes. However, there is increasing interest in developing such technology for civilian and commercial applications.

This is a write-up of my diploma project in interaction design from the Oslo School of Architecture and Design. The project is entitled ‘Adventures in Urban Computing’ and this weblog post contains a brief project description and a pdf of the diploma report.

Clever researchers have determined that you, even without a portable device can be an effective geographic sensor. This week we explore examples of how individuals can act as effective sensors for disease or natural disaster.

One of the key objectives of arsenal research is to gain quantitative insights into the motion and orientation behavior of people in infrastructures such as train stations, airports and shopping centers.

UPS uses GPS to "minimize the number of left turns... reduces idling which in turn lowers fuel consumption... multiply it across 88,0000 vehicles making nearly 15 million deliveries every day during the course of a year, it adds up."

lecture theme this year is "From Ideation to Innovation," and I used the theme as an opportunity to describe our recent projects, including our work with the Henry Ford, and our products, and the theoretical framework that we're developing to think about

Excellent write up by Dan of his talk at Interesting South, Sydney. If you want to understand why i am measuring *stuff* or what is that i am doing then read this.

Ambient information systems (which include ambient, peripheral, glance-able, and subtle displays) are non-invasive and provide useful information while blending smoothly into our surroundings. These technologies are meant to be minimally attended and perceivable from outside the range of a person's direct attention, providing pre-attentive processing without being overly distracting. Examples range from large ubiquitous public displays to small bouncing icons on the Macintosh's dock.