2. The development of the internet
we know today has risen from
the great services that were able
to streamline user needs or
create new needs...
Services like Facebook and
Google
BACKGROUND
3. • Mashups:
web services and sources of data
to create something new.
• Combining location data with
vendor data in Google maps
MOVEMENTS LEADING TO
INTERNET OF THINGS
4. • Remote control for devices:
Expensive and one way
communication to connected
devices.
• Heating up the sauna with a SMS
MOVEMENTS LEADING TO
INTERNET OF THINGS
5. • Early “web-connected” devices:
• Nabaztag WiFi Rabbit
MOVEMENTS LEADING TO
INTERNET OF THINGS
6. • Like a modern cuckoo clock,
Nabaztag will speak out the time
every hour
• Nabaztag will give you his or her
weekly recap -- a breakdown of
the time you spent together, and
whether it was noteworthy
7. Usually THIS is what we think when
we are asked about internet of
things:
10. “The Internet of Things is a term
that describes where the Internet
is connected to the physical
world via multitude of sensors”
- Kevin Ashton 1999
SO WHAT IS IT?
11. • Now almost everything can be
connected to the internet
• Sensors and computers are so
small that they can disappear
• Enabled two way communications
IN 2013:
17. • Wearable tech
• Tweeting plants
• Context aware web services
• Web controlled mechanics
• Social data gathering
& broadcast
• Health monitors
• Learning thermostats
Some examples:
21. This all may seem like testing
ideas and hacking, but
eventually Internet of things
will be “melted” into the
surroundings and become
invisible to the users.
22. Ubiquitous computing
(Ubicomp)
An advanced computing concept where
computing is made to appear
everywhere and anywhere, using any
device, in any location, and in any
format.
23. Modern user interfaces take us
there
Tangible user interface
• Touch, sense, manipulation
Surface user interface
• Touch, tap
Ambient user interfaces
• Gestures, speech, location, movement
24.
25. “We believe that technology is
at it's best and empowering
when it simply disappears.
- Jony Ive