Tag: IoT
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IoT Day
We first celebrated Internet of Things Day in 2013 when we monitored the temperature of our IoT Day beers using proprietary IoT hardware and software that we largely created ourselves. Yesterday, on “IoT Day Eve 2024” the world witnessed a rare total solar eclipse, and we monitored illuminance using an interoperable, open source IoT stack.…
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Internet of Toilets
The Internet and the sharing economy have democratised access to mobility, accommodations, and even everyday objects and commodities. So why is that by 2012, a person on-the-go could already hail their “own private driver” in minutes, yet in 2024 the promise of “your own private washroom” remains unfulfilled? The wait is over. Launching today, April…
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The Web turns 35!
The World Wide Web turns 35 years old today, March 12th 2024, and its inventor, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, expressed in an open letter the exacerbation of his concerns since the Web’s 30th anniversary, which we blogged about five years ago today. When social media dominated the headlines in 2019, in a similar open letter, he…
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ChatIoT
In these times of growing uncertainty, there is one thing that is nonetheless certain: chatbots based on large language models (LLMs) can do no wrong. Over the past few months, this type of artificial intelligence (AI) has demonstrated to the general public how natural human language, that which it generates, can be brazenly applied to…
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IoT and the coming recession
With all signs now pointing clearly towards an impending recession, should we be worried about the project of a global Internet of Things? In a word, YES. First, let’s take account of the global situation halfway through 2022: we’ve collectively endured two years of a global pandemic, inflation and interest rates are taking a greater…
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Things abandon Internet for Intranets of Things
This April 1st, tens of billions of “things” are expected to abandon the Internet and spontaneously reconnect in countless ephemeral Intranets of Things. The Internet of Things was a foolish idea anyway. An anonymous thing choosing to be identified as f0:01:ed:01:04:22 The term Internet of Things (IoT), coined by Kevin Ashton in 1999 to describe…
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COVID-IoT Day
We’ve been celebrating #IoTDay since 2013, and this year is certainly the most particular, as we and our fellow global citizens all find ourselves impacted by COVID-19, declared a pandemic four weeks ago. Social distancing and stay-at-home measures mean that many people experience a sense of physical isolation, while the Internet of Things (IoT), which…
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Who owns the future?
Occasionally a book will provide the opportunity for the reader to travel back in time and delve into the mind of an author that was thinking far ahead, at least as far as the reader’s present. What a pleasure to now read Jaron Lanier‘s Who Owns the Future? which was published in the months following…
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RFID Journal Live 2019
Oh the irony of human-entered data at an RFID conference. Ten years ago, Kevin Ashton, who coined the term “Internet of Things”, explained in RFID Journal: We need to empower computers with their own means of gathering information […] without the limitations of human-entered data. Case in point, the badge: the surname and given name…
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Micro-transactions with macro-implications
At McRock Capital’s annual IIoT Symposium, which took place this week, a panel of experts was asked: Does the ideal architecture for Smart Cities look more like the Internet or more like an operating system (ex: AOL)? Panelists Kurtis McBride of Miovision and Dan Riegel of Sidewalk Labs both argued for the former. —But…
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