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TED Global 2011 | Emtech Primer — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 08:50:09 +0000

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Mon, 04 Jul 2011 22:39:06 +0000

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3rd IoT European Conference | Emtech Primer — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 14:35:50 +0000

[...] Brussels I was invited by Rob van Kranenburg from Council and attending as a representative of the IoT Expert Group and was invited to contribute to the panel on standardisation. The event was useful to get a feel [...]

Comment on Open innovation for future Internet-enabled services in smart cities by Bob

Bob — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 15:52:42 +0000

good article,thank you

Comment on ITOBO wireless sensor network design tool by Alan

Alan — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 09:27:46 +0000

Matt, The time it takes to do a design depends on a number of factors,

1. The availability of floorplan information. The tool can import architecture drawings from AutoCad, IFC but also if these details are not available the environment can be drawn using the tools graphic capabilities.

2. Level of detail for the design. The design considers the material types of walls and objects in the space. These need to be defined, the tool has some default types such as heavy wall (concrete), light wall (partition), glass and metal.

3. Requirements definition. The user must define where they would like to place sensors from a sensing perspective. The tool has the ability to accept exact points, areas or zones for sensor placement

Once all the information is captured the tool using an optimisation algorithm automatically generates the design indicating the number and position of devices(sensors, repeaters and gateways), their position for reliable communication. So to answer your question if a site survey is not required a complete design can be generated (depending on building size) within an hour or two. The automated process may only take minutes but the capturing of requirements can be the most time consuming part of a design.

There are tools for WiFi planning available and a few research works on sensor positioning however we are not aware of any commercially available tool that can automatically optimise a site specfic wireless sensor network deployment.

The approach used by Monnit is a common mechanism for placement planning however in a large environment this can be come very labour intensive and ultimitly unmanageable.

Comment on ITOBO wireless sensor network design tool by Matt

Matt — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 22:06:49 +0000

This is very cool design tool. How long does it typically take to gather the needed information and do a complete analysis for sensor placement. Do any of the wireless sensor manufactures make and include any tools for determining the best placement of their sensors from the gateways? Monnit has a placement sensor available to help with this. Click here for more information on their placement sensor.

Comment on User Centred Design for Energy Efficiency in Buildings by lee

lee — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 20:27:01 +0000

We find that staff increase their efforts to be green when they see their employer make an effort too.

Comment on Ove Arup Key Speech by WebOL

WebOL — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:12:10 +0000

Read with interest.

Comment on TED Global the substance of things not seen by emtech primer

emtech primer — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 19:01:45 +0000

TED Global 2010

After last years experience at TED I really wish this post was coming from me, but instead it is coming from our TED Global competition winner Salomé Galjaard. While most people buy tickets for TED more than a year in…

Comment on Pervasive 2010 Helsinki by Joe McCarthy

Joe McCarthy — Wed, 19 May 2010 17:28:46 +0000

Thanks for sharing some notes from the workshop and keynote. I'm not at the conference, but have been intermittently following along remotely on Twitter. Another similarly intermittent remote follower, Gene Becker (@genebecker), tweeted a link to a presentation that Matt Jones recently shared on Scribd that is related to some of the issues highlighted in your notes: http://www.scribd.com/doc/31533915/People-Are-Walking-Architecture-or-making-NearlyNets-with-MujiComp-January-2010 Among the interesting and relevant devices he reviews in his slides are Wattson and Wattcher: http://www.diykyoto.com/uk/wattson/about http://www.wattcher.nl/english One of the topics I don't see referenced in your notes is game mechanics, and I'm highly doubtful about the prospects of success for any energy awareness and conservation system, however well intentioned (or designed), that does not incorporate elements of game mechanics into the design. Unfortunately, I just don't believe there very many people who are sufficiently intrinsically motivated to attend to energy use without some additional element(s) of fun and/or competition - or clear financial gain - being introduced. Perhaps that will be a topic of some future workshop.