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SMART PEOPLE DUMB OBJECTS NETWORKED ENVIRONMENTS
Usman Haque
Founder/CEO, Connected Environments Ltd Director, Haque Design + Research Ltd www.haque.co.uk
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BACKGROUND
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MAKE DATA PUBLIC, OPEN DATA, ETC •! not sufficient
•! standards of evidence •! air quality: height of measurement?
•! crime data: what categories?
•! climate data: whose authority?
•! making sense of data
•! make data public ! public make data
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PACHUBE...
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PACHUBE... IS A ‘PATCH-BAY’
microcontrollers & sensors
building management systems
automation systems environmental/pollution virtual environments wearable & biosensors mobile objects & vehicles
www.pachube.com
PACHUBE... IS A ‘PATCH-BAY’
microcontrollers & sensors
building management systems
automation systems environmental/pollution virtual environments wearable & biosensors mobile objects & vehicles
• high resolution storage • scalable infrastructure • highly available, resilient • web management tools • physical-to-virtual API
www.pachube.com
PACHUBE... IS A ‘PATCH-BAY’
microcontrollers & sensors
building management systems
automation systems environmental/pollution virtual environments wearable & biosensors mobile objects & vehicles
Products Tools
Applications (3rd party)
• high resolution storage • scalable infrastructure • highly available, resilient • web management tools • physical-to-virtual API
www.pachube.com
PACHUBE... IS A ‘PATCH-BAY’
microcontrollers & sensors
building management systems
automation systems environmental/pollution virtual environments wearable & biosensors mobile objects & vehicles
Products Tools
Applications (3rd party)
• mobile/web apps • capacity planning • decision tools • remote monitors • resource allocation
• high resolution storage • scalable infrastructure • highly available, resilient • web management tools • physical-to-virtual API
json, xml, csv
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WEBSITE SCREENSHOTS
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API: PLATFORM INTEGRATION •! Software libraries & examples
•! Java, Ruby, .net, Perl, C, Python, PHP, Visual Basic, Javascript
•! LabVIEW, Processing, OpenFrameworks, Flash, Adobe AIR, Google Visualization API
•! Asterisk PBX, Cold Fusion, xAP, DomotiGa, Germanium Web 3D, FHEM Home automation
•! Hardware applications & examples •! iPhone, Blackberry, G1/Android Google Phone, Windows CE for smartphones
•! Arduino, Zigbee, SunSPOT, Phidgets, GainSpan, Mocana
•! weather stations, LiveBox, CurrentCost, Insteon/Indigo Home Automation
•! Virtual systems •! Second Life, OpenSim, server monitoring, webscraping
•! Web service and application integration •! Twitter, AMEE, SketchUp, Google Earth, Skype, MSN, AIM, Yahoo, xAP
•! Physical installations •! Buildings, energy meters, pollution monitors, ships, satellites, city utilities, mobile devices,
automobiles
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‘OUT-OF-THE-BOX’ APPS •!Mapping tools: track mobile feeds & distributed sensor networks in real time
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•!Embed visualization tools, maps & graphs in websites
‘OUT-OF-THE-BOX’ APPS
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‘OUT-OF-THE-BOX’ APPS •!Augmented Reality: visualize environmental and sensor data from devices and buildings
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‘OUT-OF-THE-BOX’ APPS •!Smart phones: monitor, control and update feeds using a variety of mobile phone apps
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‘OUT-OF-THE-BOX’ APPS •!Mash-ups and web app integration: with services like Twitter, Skype, SketchUp & AMEE
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GRANULARITY OF PARTICIPATION •!individuals experiment, developers prototype, organisations create, cities collaborate
•!‘privacy’ options coming: share-to-world or share-to-group
•!people make things smart •! formulate goals
•! teach & learn
•! create solutions & vocabularies
•!together they become.... THINGKERS!
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SMART PEOPLE DUMB OBJECTS NETWORKED ENVIRONMENTS
Usman Haque
Founder/CEO, Connected Environments Ltd Director, Haque Design + Research Ltd www.haque.co.uk
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