Council is a loose group of professionals with different ideas and opinions. We want to host the full range of opinions on what will be a small avalanche of disruptive innovations. We have been through the full range of emotions and conceptual clarity that comes with grasping the territory, the full logistical, business, social and philosophical implications of the Internet of Things. Read more about Council is a think tank, consultancy, accelerator and forecasting group
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Council and Tinker.it! presented: Are you ready for the Internet of Things? A LIFT @ Home event, december 4, 2009, Brussels, at IMAL.org
The movies by filmers Suzanne Hogendoorn and Joris Holtermans are on the Council Conference Channel on youtube. The evening program was streamed by IMAL and is archived. You can watch it.
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Council proposes to hold very small Council meetings anywhere in the world on April 9. These can vary to having a cup of coffee with someone and talk about the Internet of Things or hosting a dinner at your place, or going for a walk on the beach, as long as it is on April 9 and about IoT, and we really pump up the jam on this one on Twitter, Facebook, What-have-you, to make it into a yearly Council Internet of Things day.
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"It would be ideal if you could borrow what you lack from your neighbours. I love soup, but unfortunately I do not always have all the things or even the knowledge that I need to prepare it. If sharing was the norm this would not be an obstacle. Neighbours, too, could benefit from sharing, especially if they don’t know each other (that well). Many of us have tools lying around the house that we barely use. I find it a shame to buy such tools but too often I see it as my only option.
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Usman Haque (Pachube, Connected Environments) says: “When authoritative sources does not exist (or cannot be trusted) then
bottom-up data acquisition is one of the crucial means of making sense
of a situation, whether that's through making maps, or observing
phenomena, taking notes, making drawings, graphs or whatever. How about the idea of developing a citizen-built map and schedule of
electricity outage around Karachi?
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The Internet of Things panel is calling for proposals dealing with the human aspects of the Internet of Things. There is a lot of focus from logistics, efficiency, anti theft, home automation, smart cities, control and surveillancen, radical transparency and open innovation. We believe however that IoT is an ontological shift towards a different relationship between men, things and the world. Men have made things 'holy' by their acts of will and things have allowed to be made 'holy' because of a particular strand of existence running through time.
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During the IoT conference last month in Brussels, I noticed a general confidence in the possibility to shape the Internet of Things into whatever form we see most fit. But I am asking myself how much of this power is real and how much is imagined by the different participants in the universe of IoT. The European commission has power to restrain by rules and to nurture by subsidies. And corporations have a choice in product, service and presentation. Consumers have an influence by choice in purchases.
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Gordon Farrar in 'Untangling the web': "WOULD you feel hurt if your refrigerator stopped returning your
emails? Would you be annoyed to have your dinner interrupted by a pot
plant demanding a drink? Are you friends with your toilet on Facebook? Do you like the idea of a virtual avatar that contains
your personality and memories — the essence of you — that could
communicate with your descendants? It's only a matter of time."
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From Zach Shelby's blog: "The 6LoWPAN WG is finishing its main objectives of finishing the new Header Compression and Neighbor Discovery optimizations. We expect both drafts to start the proposed standard process soon. This document specifies an IPv6 header compression format for IPv6 packet delivery in 6LoWPAN networks. The compression format relies on shared context to allow compression of arbitrary prefixes. How the information is maintained in that shared context is out of scope." Read more about From Zach Shelby's blog: The 6LoWPAN WG
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The 5th Annual IIDA/Metropolis Smart Environment Awards: PURPOSE: To recognize individuals and collaborative teams creating excellent, leading edge interior environments. WHO SHOULD ENTER: Interior Design and Architecture professionals and teams practicing legally in their jurisdictions. ENTRY REQUIREMENTS:Projects must have been completed after April 2009 (and not previously published).
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The report entitled "IoT Conference Report 2010" is now online and downloadable. It was written by Rob van Kranenburg of Council, Knowledge Partner. Here are the provisional conclusions: On a technological level we see a tendency towards many platforms, a high number of solutions and open standards and we foresee a deluge of data. Much like the end of the 90’s when RFID got under the penny cost and database storage became cheaper and cheaper, storage as such might not be the real issue, but turning data into meaningful information for end users remains the key challenge.
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In COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, THE COUNCIL, THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMITTEE AND THE COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS, Internet of Things — An action plan for Europe, we can read that "IoT is not yet a tangible reality, but rather a prospective vision of a number of technologies that, combined together, could in the coming 5 to 15 years drastically modify the way our societies function. Read more about Council is part of the High Level Group on IoT from the European Commission
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Virtual reality, interactive architecture, artificial life, nano-art, robotics or augmented reality, just to mention a few, are some of the diverse and innovative subjects that constitute the program of Technarte this year. Technarte is a unique conference that merges art and technology and that in 2011 will celebrate its 6th edition, on the 19th and 20th of May at the Euskalduna Conference Centre and Concert Hall in Bilbao, Spain.
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"The dramatic success of social media such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, blogs, and traditional discussion groups empowers individuals to become active in local and global communities. Some enthusiasts believe that with modest redesign, these technologies can be harnessed to support national priorities such as healthcare/wellness, disaster response, community safety, energy sustainability, etc. However, accomplishing these ambitious goals will require long-term research to develop deep science foundations and extreme technology strategies.
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This call welcomes designers, software developers, hardware sketchers, architects, and educators to submit proposals for design-driven research to be conducted in Summer 2011 in residence in the Graduate Media Design Program studio. We are particularly interested in projects that explore learning in a context of pervasive computing, including mobile technologies, social networking, online systems and digital media.
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