WEB3IOT.COM
support@web3iot.com
+44(0)7763264313
  • Home
  • News
    • Blog Posts
    • Industry News
  • Events Directory
    • Conferences >
      • Conferences 2020 >
        • Conferences 2020 Jan
        • Conferences 2020 Feb
        • Conferences 2020 March
        • Conferences 2020 April
        • Conferences 2020 May
        • Conferences 2020 June
        • Conferences 2020 July
        • Conferences 2020 Aug
        • Conferences 2020 Sept
        • Conferences 2020 Oct
        • Conferences 2020 Nov
        • Conferences 2020 Dec
      • Conferences 2019
      • Conferences 2018
      • Conferences 2017
      • Conferences 2016
    • Add Event
  • Social Media
    • Facebook
    • Google+
    • Instagram
    • LinkedIn
    • Periscope
    • Pinterest
    • Quora
    • Snapchat
    • Twitter
    • Vimeo
    • Vine
    • Youtube
  • Contact
  • Newsletter
  • Advertise

OPEN DATA IS SCALING IOT BEYOND THE HYPE

5/25/2016

Comments

 
Posted By Yodit Stanton on May 25, 2016
The Internet of Things hype cycle is in overdrive, as someone working in the area this is theoretically great but it getting harder and harder to filter out the marketing hype. What is the Internet of Things? Some describe it as the ability to connect billions devices to the internet THEN auto-magically creating Trillions of dollars in revenues. Just connect any normal devices and let the good times roll right? If only...
The internet of Things is much more than a licence to print money.  It should give us the ability to understand the world around us in unprecedented detail. If the web is a human curated knowledge base, IoT is the machine generated illustration of our world.  There will be many IoT applications that will significantly change the way we live and work over the coming 5-10 years.

IoT descriptions can seem quite futurist but what does this actually mean for most of us today?

Within commercial buildings, IoT is taking existing infrastructure and improving and simplifying it. Whilst previously landlords had to buy expensive building management systems tied to 1 or 2 vendors, more and more building companies are starting to shift the management of their data to the cloud. Node Red open source community members contribute integration points to traditional buildings protocols like modbus letting companies view and analyse their data independently.  Friction free access to data enables better analytics through the stitching together of multiple data sets. As a result, galleries can better quantify the energy impact of visitor footfall, architects use beacons and footfall monitors to create better designed and user friendly buildings.

Why Open Data?

The more data a service has access to the ‘smarter’ it can become, silo’ed data stores inhibit this. Unfortunately, the 1st iteration of IoT architecture is a ‘thing’ or a set of things with their own app and/or dashboard.  Data is not available to be integrated into the multitude of other services we use.


Parking companies and municipalities deploy parking sensors but you have to download their particular branded app to find information. This approach means downloading several ‘parking’ apps from several companies in 1 city.  I would argue most people would rather see parking information in services they already use daily, such as citymapper and google maps. Being too focused on the 1 app for 1 thing architecture gives the mistaken belief that competitive moats are built with the ability to control people’s experiences. In truth, hardware firms that will win are those that create a thriving ecosystem around their products, the more your ‘thing’ seamlessly integrates into my life the more I will use it.  

IoT service providers are also starting to understand that their products cannot be truly ‘smart’ until they build on existing data sets.

In the simplest case, air quality within a building is influenced by air quality outside. To understand air quality we have to utilise information from our own sensors as well as data from others.  Having access to weather, traffic, local flooding dangers and footfall datapoints enables us to configure better building automation systems.

The real IoT revolution is actually happening quietly, away from the spotlight and marketing dollars of big companies, with communities gathering and publishing millions of data points daily from sensors with Open Data Licensing. Communities such as Herelab in Martha’s vineyard, Massachusetts implemented a smart island project sensing water quality and many other factors. Schools across the world are starting to teach electronics by enabling students to configure and deploy air quality sensors. This has the direct result of giving the world it’s first view of granular information that never previously existed.  
​

Hardware manufacturers such as air quality egg, the flood network and others are creating innovative products which are being deployed at scale all over the world. More successful products like these are the acorns of the real IoT revolution.
Yodit is currently growing OpenSensors.io, a real time data exchange for the Internet of Things. Her organisation enables anyone to publish and subscribe to real time open data in order to be able to build higher order smart systems and better understand the world around them.
Comments

    Categories

    All
    3D Printing
    5G
    Analysis
    Appcessories
    Artificial Intelligence
    Blockchain
    Business
    Conferences
    Crowdfunded
    Drones
    Entrepreneurs
    EOS
    Ethereum
    Fashion
    Fitness
    For Sale
    Funding
    Hackathons
    Hardware
    Health Monitoring
    Health Tech
    ICO
    Indiegogo
    Industrial IoT
    IOTA
    IoT Events
    IOT Starter Kits
    Kickstarter
    M2M
    NEO
    News
    Preorder
    Robotics
    Security
    Smart City
    Smart Home
    Smart Office
    Smart Watches
    Startup Funding
    Startups
    Tech For Athletes
    Tech For Kids
    Tech For Makers
    Tech For Pets
    Tech For Seniors
    Transport
    Venture Capital
    VR/Augmented Reality
    Wearables

    Authors

    Simon Montford

    SOCIAL MEDIA

    © Simon Montford (WEB3IOT), 2014-2019. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this blog’s author and/or owner is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to Simon Montford and WEB3IOT with appropriate and specific direction to the original content at web3iot.com.

    Archives

    February 2020
    January 2020
    November 2019
    October 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    February 2018
    December 2017
    September 2017
    March 2017
    January 2017
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    October 2014
    September 2014

    RSS Feed



NEWSLETTER conference news

SUBSCRIBE

JOIN US ON SOCIAL MEDIA

HOME | ABOUT | RESOURCES | NEWS | CONTACT | TOS

© 2014-2020 all rights reserved
  • Home
  • News
    • Blog Posts
    • Industry News
  • Events Directory
    • Conferences >
      • Conferences 2020 >
        • Conferences 2020 Jan
        • Conferences 2020 Feb
        • Conferences 2020 March
        • Conferences 2020 April
        • Conferences 2020 May
        • Conferences 2020 June
        • Conferences 2020 July
        • Conferences 2020 Aug
        • Conferences 2020 Sept
        • Conferences 2020 Oct
        • Conferences 2020 Nov
        • Conferences 2020 Dec
      • Conferences 2019
      • Conferences 2018
      • Conferences 2017
      • Conferences 2016
    • Add Event
  • Social Media
    • Facebook
    • Google+
    • Instagram
    • LinkedIn
    • Periscope
    • Pinterest
    • Quora
    • Snapchat
    • Twitter
    • Vimeo
    • Vine
    • Youtube
  • Contact
  • Newsletter
  • Advertise

OUR MISSION

We aim to help inform the IOT/AI/DLT ecosystems by connecting hardware and software professionals, academics, entrepreneurs, enthusiasts, executives, investors, and early-adopters. We believe the "Machine Economy" will lead to incredible innovations that will enrich the lives of millions of people throughout the world.

OUR FOCUS

Anything relating to the Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence, and Distributed Ledger Technologies such as Blockchain, DAGs, Hashgraph, Hyperledger etc. Web 3.0 will increasingly affect us all as smart devices become ubiquitous and more intelligent within the home, office, and all industrial sectors.

COMPANY INFO

86-90 Paul Street    
London                           
EC2A 4NE
UK
          

support@web3iot.com  

CONTACT US

78 West Port
Edinburgh
EH1 2LE
​UK

+44(0)7763264313