Présentation de l'AWT dans le cadre du Café Numérique de Liège sur le thème de l'Internet des Objets. 6 février 2013

1. Web ²
The Internet of everything
Café numérique Liège| 06/02/2013 | André Blavier @awtbe

2. 7+ Billion People Constrained Technology
Living Longer Resources Ubiquity
Human Relocation Social
Mobility of Capital Reform
Adapted from Gartner

3. Major ICT trends
Web² / mobile Cloud
Real and virtual worlds A universal platform for
are going to merge online services
Programmable
Web
Social Big data
Empowerment. A new The new power
distribution of roles of data and analytics
http://www.awt.be/web/dem/index.aspx?page=dem,fr,foc,100,087

4. Technology trends (1)
Media tablets Near Field Communication
• Handheld devices optimized for • Short-range wireless
media consumption. communications that can interact
• Makes consumption effortless and with passive devices.
encourages simplicity and content • Contactless authentication,
sharing in customer-facing payments, access control, identity,
situations. etc.
• Investigate potential opportunities • Potential opportunities and
and re-evaluate existing application monitor customer-facing scenarios.
interfaces. • New services but challenges
• Tablet deployment can no longer be existing credit card infrastructure.
prevented. Take action to manage.
Adapted from Gartner

5. Technology trends (2)
Augmented reality New User Interfaces
• Overlaying relevant digital • New input and display
information on a view of the real technologies highlight the
world. restrictions of existing paradigms.
• Growing power of mobile devices • The keyboard remains a barrier.
with integrated sensors. Ideal Reconceptualize user interface
platform for further deployment. designs as part of the total user
• Integrated into the information experience. NUI.
architectures and future products • More productive and engaging
and services. interaction.
• Kind of "sphere of context" around • New ability of computers to
items to develop an ongoing understand language, infer context
relationship. and provide answers.
• Virtual assistants.
Adapted from Gartner

6. Technology trends (3)
Big Data Internet of Things
• Popular term for the future issues • More than 50 billion devices, rising
in extreme information to more than 200 billion by 2015.
management. Volume, velocity, • New information on which to make
variety and complexity. better decisions, but requiring
• Removes current constraints and better analytics and information
opens up new public data sources. management.
• Architectural challenges and • Integrated into the information
ensure decision making evolves to architectures and future products
use new information. and services.
• Analytics. Increased insight, more • Kind of "sphere of context" around
accurate forecasts and better items to develop an ongoing
ability to identify and exploit relationship.
trends.
Adapted from Gartner

7. Technology trends (4)
3D printing Robotics … and more
• Devices to create one-off and • Mobile task-oriented devices and
customized pieces onsite. ability to project and control a
• Price reductions and wide range of remote presence.
advanced materials open up new • New flexibility and greater
opportunities for low-volume collaboration and engagement.
fabrication and prototyping. • Sensors.
• On-site manufacturing could • Genomics.
transform logistics and enable • Human Augmentation.
exciting new business models. • Sustainability.
• And …
Adapted from Gartner

8. The Six M’s … mobile and IOT
1. Movement. Escaping the fixed place.
2. Moment. Expanding the concept of time.
3. Me. Expressing oneself and personalising
the phone.
4. Multiuser. Extending one's self to one's
community.
5. Money. Expending financial resources.
6. Machines. Empowering devices, gadgets
and automation.
Source : Tomi T Ahonen. http://communities-dominate.blogs.com

9. Movement
• Mobile and carbon footprint. Location based
mobile service that tracks how your mobile phone
moves.
• If it moves at walking speeds, you are walking and
not creating a carbon footprint. Same for bicycling.
• If you move at the speed of traffic, you're in a car or
taxi, and your carbon footprint is charged.
• It knows if the travel pattern is stop-and-go on bus
routes or train routes, and charges you less as you
share the costs travelling by public transportation.

10. Moment
• Your flowers say : we need water !
• AgriHouse offers the latest in communications
beyond the human race : your houseplants! A device
attached to the plant will send SMS to you when the
plant needs to be watered.
• Great application of “IT for green”.

11. www.koubachi.com
Koubachi revolutionizes the way
objects and things in your household
are communicating with you. They
want to identify the potential of Smart
Objects and create new possibilities of
use, new services, and a simpler yet
more powerful user experience.
Koubachi accurately determines the
vitality of your plant and sends you a
notification with precise care advice at
the right time.

12. Machines / M2M
• The WiFi Body Scale.
• Automatically transmit your weight to your iOS
device. It also graphs your weight, BMI, and lean and
fat mass so you can access it from your SmartPhone
or web browser at any time.

13. Devices … not only phones
Adapted from Forrester

14. Devices … not only phones

15. Mobile for new interactions
Vocal recognition
Intelligent agents • Commands trough natural language (NUI)
• Payments, ticketing, access control, P2P transactions
Near Field Communication (NFC)
• Security (NUI)
Biometrics • Gestual control (NUI)
3D cameras
3D displays • Augmented reality
High resolution • Media / games / commerce consumption
Second Screen • Content screening
• Local intelligence
Accelerometers • Dynamic and contextual information. More than only
Sensors simple geolocation : speed, floor, pollution, traffic,
Gyroscopes environment, etc.
• Segmentation et personalization for services
Adapted from Forrester

17. Mobile tags show us the future
It is interesting to examine the uses
associated with tags mobile,
as they will be taken up and further
developed with NFC
and augmented reality.

18. NFC … and the Internet of things
Near field communication (NFC)
is a short-range wireless technologies
(requiring a distance of 4 cm or less).
NFC involves an initiator and a target.
The initiator actively generates
an RF field that empower
a passive target.

19. cherryonthebag.com
Microchip containing a digital
certificate combined with an NFC
antenna in each bag.
This enables to check the authenticity
of the bag instantaneously, by simply
scanning it with an NFC smartphone.

20. IPv6 (Internet Protocol 6)
Will replace IPv4
(all available addresses are used).
With IPv6, it will be possible to give
an IP address to any object in the world.
IPv4 : XXX. XXX. XXX. XXX
IPv6 : XXX.XXX.XXX. XXX. XXX. XXX

21. www.keyzee.eu
A car is stopped 92% of the time. That
is why Volkswagen has launched a
partnership with Keyzee to propose
the dematerialization of the keys.
Thanks to a smartphone, everyone can
allow access to his car to a friend,
colleague, …

22. Country-wide rainfall maps
from cellular communication networks
• Accurate surface precipitation measurements are
crucial for water resources management. But the
majority of the surface of the earth lacks such data.
• A solution could be to use received signal level data from
the microwave links used in commercial cellular
communication networks. Along such links, radio signals
propagate from a transmitting antenna at one base
station to a receiving antenna at another base station …
• Rainfalls can be
measured from the
signal’s attenuation
between transmitter
and receiver.
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2013/01/29/1217961110.full.pdf+html

23. Just a word about e-commerce
E-commerce doesn’t exist ;-)
Long live connected commerce

24. In-store : At home :
• Bar code scanning • Coupons
• Coupons • How-to videos
• Consumer reviews • In-store inventory
• In-store navigation • Research tools
• Shopping lists • Shopping list build
(weddings, etc.) • Store hours
• Loyalty • Store location
• Promotions
• Virtual products
Competitor store :
• Coupons
• In-store inventory
• Nearest store
• Pricing
• Promotions

25. Connected retail
http://vimeo.com/29372569

26. Digital In Store
Connected commerce
Source : http://www.keyrus.fr

27. API
API
API
API
API
User
Web server
Web platform
API
Cloud, API, mobile & apps, Open/Big Data, Chrome, HTML5, tablets, IOT Programmable Web
Co-creation, social, mobile, AJAX, CSS, XML, RSS, tags, blogs, Wiki Web 2.0
Dynamic pages, e-commerce, Ads, CMS, Flash, CSS, search, Firefox Dynamic Web 1.5
Static HTML pages, (bad) JavaScript, first browsers Static Web 1.0

28. The challenges of Big Data
• Making information more transparent. In the public
sector in particular, making data more accessible will
significantly reduce searching and processing time.
• Segmenting target audiences to customize the offer.
Data volumes allow more segmentation and tailored
services matching the most specific needs of customers.
• Better decision making with algorithms. Significantly
improve decision making. Minimize risk-taking. Identify
information with high added value.
• New business models. Using data from crowdsourcing
to improve product development and to create
innovative services.

29. Internet of Things … or
• Internet of People. Self quantification.
Health. Fitness. Children and old people
monitoring. Narcissification.
• Internet of Energy. Smart grids. Household
and home automation. Security.
• Internet of Industry. 3D Printing. Connected
commerce. Robotics. M2M.
• Internet of Data. Analytics. Crowdsourcing
and big data. Sensors.
• … Internet of whatever you want !

30. Web². The Quantified Self
• Apps and interactive personal gadgets / objects.
• We will be able to measure the quality of our sleep,
the steps we take in a day, how many calories we
consume, etc. Health will be a big target.
• Natural User Interface (NUI). Success will depend
on the simplicity of the systems and interfaces.
• Smart clothing. For example shoes that have
embedded sensors to track your activity and tell you
when you need a new pair.
• Big Data. The main objective is to provide a bigger
and “quantifiable” picture of our actions and our
life.

31. jawbone.com/up
UP™ is a system that takes a holistic
approach to a healthy lifestyle. The
wristband tracks your movement and
sleep in the background. The app
displays your data, lets you add things
like meals and mood, and delivers
insights that keep you moving forward.

32. www.fitbit.com

33. The “disappearing" interface
Motivation Motivation Motivation Motivation
Data resolution Data resolution Data resolution Data resolution
Adapted from @rafigaro & http://open.sen.se

34. Temporary tattoo to measure
metabolic stress
A medical sensor attached to the skin
like a temporary tattoo could make it
easier for doctors to detect metabolic
problems in patients and for coaches
to fine-tune athletes’ training routines.
The entire sensor comes in a thin,
flexible package shaped like a smiley
face.
http://www.news.utoronto.ca/temporary-tattoo-measures-metabolic-stress

35. Web². Internet of Data
• At the intersection of Big Data and Open Data, we
will see the emergence of "Data as a Service"
(DaaS).
• Large-scale deployment of new online services
accessible to a large number of people, providing,
on demand, aggregations of raw, quantitative or
personal data, making it easier for companies to
understand specific phenomena and anticipate new
market trends.
• For example, will the sales of a product be affected
by extreme weather?

36. www.qunb.com
Finalist at the startups competition at
LeWeb 2012 (IoT), Qunb is a DaaS
aggregation platform where it is
possible to interact and cross different
data sources. Described as the
"YouTube" of data, it allows users to
“consume“ specific data and to see
them in the most accurate format.

37. Web². Internet of industry
• 3D printing could cause a new industrial revolution.
• We are surrounded by manufactured goods, mostly
products of the industry, which has undergone many
changes during the last century …
• But the “factory” concept is now changing.
Manufacturing becomes digital. And from the
moment an industry embraces digital, it changes
deeply, as we have already seen for the distribution
or the media. The biggest change is not how things
are done, but who makes them.
• If we can do something on a classical computer, then
anyone can do it. This is exactly what is being
observed now for the industry.

38. www.shapeways.com
Shapeways.com is the world's leading
3D Printing marketplace and
community. They harness 3D Printing
to help everyone make and share
designs with the world, making
product design more accessible,
personal, and inspiring.

39. Web². Internet of Energy
• Smart grids // personal management of energy.
• The next stage in the Internet revolution ?
• In parallel of the “classic” Internet and mobile
revolution, another revolution on a similar scale is
taking place in the world of energy, with the advent
of “smart grids”, intelligent networks that use
information technology to optimize the production,
distribution and consumption of electricity.

40. The new electric grid
Michael Hsieh via www.technoark.ch

41. www.simpleenergy.com
A new way for people to save energy
that is social, fun and simple. Online
platform that helps users understand
their energy use with actionable
insights, that scores them against their
Facebook friends and that rewards
them with real prizes.
Facilitates both smart grid rollouts and
energy efficiency even in the absence
of smart grid meters.

42. www.actility.com
ThingPark offers standards-based core
infrastructure components and
software that enable mass scale
deployment of Internet of Things
(M2M) applications. Open ecosystem
addressing vertical markets and
custom uses cases through third party
M2M applications.

43. Web². Internet of the body
• Human augmentation ?
• The Internet of the body is still at his premices. But
the promises in the field of prevention and
healthcare are enormous. Would you change your
eating habits if you know your cholesterol levels in
real time? What diseases can be detected as soon as
they start an intervention for the quickest possible?
• But big questions remain to be see how far we
collectively accept to become continuously
monitored.

44. Connected babies
A group of students from the Brigham Youth
University (USA), have found a very simple way to
offer a better sleep to young parents anxious about
the idea of ​the sudden death of their child. It’s a
small “online” sock which transmits the vital
parameters to a mobile application (heart rate and
oxygen levels in the blood) and generates an alert
when something anormal happens.
http://owletcare.com

45. Web². Internet of the body
• Touching. Through vibrations, new touchscreens will
simulate on smartphones the same physical sensations as
those experienced in contact with an object.
• Hearing. Through sensors, crowdsourced sounds and
specific algorithms, computers will be able to detect and
interpret important sounds in a given environment.
• Smell. Thanks to sensors, smartphones will be able to
identify the chemical composition of a smell and, for
example, trigger a particular action, such as preventing a
disease by analyzing the air we expire.
• View. Computers will be able to identify an object, without
human intervention, especially by comparison to "Big
Data" images.
• Taste. Computers will experience the favorite tastes of a
person, identify his nutritional needs and provide
recommendations for the choice of a regime.

46. IBM 5 in 5 : Touch

47. IBM 5 in 5 : Sight

48. IBM 5 in 5 : Hearing

49. IBM 5 in 5 : Taste

50. IBM 5 in 5 : Smell

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