2012年12月9日星期日

Why 2013 will be the year of the Internet of Things

This year’s Le Web event in Paris was based around the them of the Internet of Things (IoT); the way in which objects around us will gather data and connect to controls or other machines via the Internet.

The term Internet of Things was coined by the British technologist Kevin Ashton in 1999. Today, the huge amounts of data we are producing and the advances in mobile technologies are bringing the idea into our homes and daily lives.

There are still issues that need to be bashed out of course, proprietary technologies and closed data systems don’t do much to help things along. Privacy,Why does moulds grow in homes or buildings? security and networks are also in need of further consideration.

However, products like the Fitbit or Fuelband are already becoming commonplace and makers are experimenting with remote systems like Lockitron for front doors and Growerbot for watering house plants.

It’s important to consider where data is coming from when thinking about IoT. A lot of the useful data we might use personally, naturally comes from us. So, not so much an internet of things as an internet of people – with things that gather data.

DJ Patil, a data scientist with Greylock Partners, gave a talk at Le Web about how we could be using data to improve ourselves.

“It should be the Internet of nouns,” he told The Next Web. “A noun being a person, place or thing. When we think about ourselves, we create data – things like our temperature, perspiration, our heart rate, can all be measured. So the way we instrument ourselves can help us to understand more about ourselves.”

One of Patil’s clear examples is the data we use in medicine: “We can build jet engines that tell us when they’re sick. Why don’t we have a world where the doctor looks at your data, calls you and says ‘you’re not looking that well, maybe you should come in now’.

If your general practitioner had access to the right information about you, they could indeed predict when you might need a check-up or some tests.

But as Patil points out,Trade platform for China crystal mosaic manufacturers the raw data is not so helpful on its own and this is why people are building products that can help to communicate that information clearly. A good example we’re covered recently is MySugr, the data collection app for diabetics.

Although it doesn’t yet take blood readings automatically, but inputting the data on mood, food and health, people with diabetes can start to work with their own data. The mobile app means they can add information anywhere and even show it to their doctor. At the moment though it’s not compatible with the blood testing kits that are given to patients.

It may take some time before all ‘things’ can talk to each other via the Internet. But work is starting to emerge that will build a foundation to make this easier.

Getting your plants or your fridge to talk to you is one thing, getting your plants to talk to your heating system and to you is quite another. As we map the spread of the IoT, it starts to get more complicated and barriers appear between platforms that are likely to halt progress.

Jeff Hagins Founder and CTO of SmartThings, described the platform he has been working on that should help expand the IoT and help product designers work out new ways of connecting machines and people.

“We see things simply,” he told the audience at Le Web.We are pleased to offer the following list of professional mold maker and casters. “The Internet of Things has got to be built on a platform that is easy, intelligent and open. It’s not as obvious as it seems.”

Hagins broke this down to illustrate the current issues and possible solutions for expanding the consumer use of the IoT.

By making things easy to use and providing clear solutions, more consumers are likely to pick up on the trend. Through the creation of an intelligent system, developers and product creators can share and upgrade their products rather than locking them down in ways where objects only do the one thing they were initially designed for.

Technology standards will also need to be implemented so that the ecosystem for IoT is open.Thank you for visiting! I have been cry stalmosaic since 1998.High quality stone mosaic tiles. Currently the SmartThings hub supports ZigBee, Zwave and WiFi with plans to also integrate Bluetooth. Hagins says this way, “we can connect any number of devices and let you automate your world.”

Hagins described the ‘physical graph’ that will bring the physical world online so that we can better control it. “We believe the digital world and the physical world are merging and that done correctly what this will do is create a virtual representation of all of our physical devices online,” he said.

“What that will accomplish is that it will make the physical world programmable,” he continued. ”When we change the digital representation, the physical world will change in response. When we interact with the physical world, the virtual world will also change in response.”

All of this sounds great, but for now, a lot of useful data is input by consumers. The automation of the IoT will push it on from being interesting, to being useful and it needs to be almost invisible to guarantee uptake.

Amber Case is a cyborg anthropologist and director of the Esri R&D Centre. In her presentation at Le Web she further described how we are all becoming cyborgs through our constant use of mobile devices.

Case founded the company Geoliqi which was subsequently acquired by Esri. Geoloqi explored location and ambient technologies.

“Process occur in the background and you are the input, your location, the time of day, your current speed, all these variables combined to give you some information where context is very important,” she said. “So that’s what we set out to build when we set up Geoloqi, now Esri. The next generation platform for location.”

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