A lecture about developing an 'Internet of Things' ( IoT ) technology cluster in Brighton. However, the lessons are applicable to anyone that has ambitions to build a cluster in their own locality.
This presentation was first given to Computer Science students at the University of Brighton on February 17th, 2016.
It provides an overview of the current state of IoT and examines what kind of skills and policies are necessary to develop an IoT technology cluster in Brighton.
It then proposes an 8 step programme to develop an IoT technology cluster, advocates the need for long-term vision and describes a strategy for developing Brighton as a major center for research and entrepreneurship in IoT and other emerging technologies.
Overview:
- A brief history of Connected Things
- The Internet of Things explained
- Policies and Frameworks
- Anatomy of a Technology Cluster
- Stages of IoT development
- Building a Brighton Cluster
- Long term vision
Get yourself connected: Google Glass and the Internet of BlingBill Harpley
A talk given to Worthing Digital group on the rainy night of October 22cnd 2013.
It is an introductory level talk on wearable computing devices and technology. The aim is to raise awareness of this increasingly important topic.
It examines the history of wearable device technology and provides some case studies of current products (The Lume Collection, Pebble Smartwatch, Fitbit, Google Glass).
It then considers how these devices and technologies may be linked together into a coherent, ultimately participating in the "device cloud" that is known as the Internet of Things.
It speculates as to the the social and cultural impact of the mass adoption of wearable technology. It explores this through a scenario called the Internet of Bling.
A video of the presentation session will be made available on the Worthing Digital website in the near future.
Building the Social Internet of ThingsBill Harpley
'Building the Social Internet of Things: tools and inspiring ideas for artists and designers' is a call-to-arms for the next generation of artists and designers. It surveys the work of artists who are using data and digital technologies to explore the emerging 'Internet of Things'.
The premise of this presentation is that artists and designers played a critical role in shaping the early commercial Internet of two decades ago.
I think that we face the same challenge today, as we try to make sense of the emerging 'Internet of Everything'. Technologists may like to think that they have all the answers but the truth is that we only understand part of the problem.Once again, we need to call upon the skills of artists and designers to help make the IoE a valuable social phenomenon.
I gave this talk to a group of Fine Arts and Sculpture students at Brighton University in November 2015. They represent the generation that will figure out what the 'Social Internet of Things' will look like. They are the people who will create 'Thingbook'.
Industry Revolution 4.0 by Creator MakerspaceSjur Usken
An overview of the Industrial Revolution and how maker space fits into exploring the new business opportunities arising. Robots, 3D printing, Internet of Things, artificial intelligens and cloud computing accelerating each other into new industries.
This deck was prepared for the 1st and 2nd cohort of the "Road to 4IR" program, initiated by EMK center in collation with 'Birshreshtha Munshi Abdur Rouf Public College'. The major attractions of both of the cohorts were, all the students/attendee of the program was from Class-07. 1st cohort was for all girls (Date: 23rd May, 2021) and 2nd cohort was of the all-boys batch (Date: 24th June, 2021).
This 'Introduction to 4th IR' was the first session of the program, where students were introduced to different topics and terminologies of 4IR.
Get yourself connected: Google Glass and the Internet of BlingBill Harpley
A talk given to Worthing Digital group on the rainy night of October 22cnd 2013.
It is an introductory level talk on wearable computing devices and technology. The aim is to raise awareness of this increasingly important topic.
It examines the history of wearable device technology and provides some case studies of current products (The Lume Collection, Pebble Smartwatch, Fitbit, Google Glass).
It then considers how these devices and technologies may be linked together into a coherent, ultimately participating in the "device cloud" that is known as the Internet of Things.
It speculates as to the the social and cultural impact of the mass adoption of wearable technology. It explores this through a scenario called the Internet of Bling.
A video of the presentation session will be made available on the Worthing Digital website in the near future.
Building the Social Internet of ThingsBill Harpley
'Building the Social Internet of Things: tools and inspiring ideas for artists and designers' is a call-to-arms for the next generation of artists and designers. It surveys the work of artists who are using data and digital technologies to explore the emerging 'Internet of Things'.
The premise of this presentation is that artists and designers played a critical role in shaping the early commercial Internet of two decades ago.
I think that we face the same challenge today, as we try to make sense of the emerging 'Internet of Everything'. Technologists may like to think that they have all the answers but the truth is that we only understand part of the problem.Once again, we need to call upon the skills of artists and designers to help make the IoE a valuable social phenomenon.
I gave this talk to a group of Fine Arts and Sculpture students at Brighton University in November 2015. They represent the generation that will figure out what the 'Social Internet of Things' will look like. They are the people who will create 'Thingbook'.
Industry Revolution 4.0 by Creator MakerspaceSjur Usken
An overview of the Industrial Revolution and how maker space fits into exploring the new business opportunities arising. Robots, 3D printing, Internet of Things, artificial intelligens and cloud computing accelerating each other into new industries.
This deck was prepared for the 1st and 2nd cohort of the "Road to 4IR" program, initiated by EMK center in collation with 'Birshreshtha Munshi Abdur Rouf Public College'. The major attractions of both of the cohorts were, all the students/attendee of the program was from Class-07. 1st cohort was for all girls (Date: 23rd May, 2021) and 2nd cohort was of the all-boys batch (Date: 24th June, 2021).
This 'Introduction to 4th IR' was the first session of the program, where students were introduced to different topics and terminologies of 4IR.
How the Digital Transformation is going to change the world of Work 4.0 with respect to the Introduction of Industry 4.0 technology. Will Jobs reduce or we will have more jobs with higher pay. An interesting analysis.
(PROJEKTURA) Digital Economy for Lider Media 2015Ratko Mutavdzic
Digital Economy Short story on where is digital economy momentum in EU, what are the eky prioritites and what would be the impact of digital economy on the society
It was a 2-hour long seminar, where the audiences were enlightened with Robots and Robotics and thus the possible and bright future career scopes. The audiences were mainly School and College level students, who will be in the national workforce within the next 3-4 years.
Almost 168+ participants joined. It was organized under EMK Center's 'MakerLab'. It was held on 17th December 2020 from 8 pm-10 pm. The speaker was MakerLab mentor Mr. Redwan Ferdous.
Information Communication Technology
Malaysia's Digital Economy: ICT
Business Information and Business Intelligence
Growth Hacking Economy System Concept
The future of work examines how we work today and what work will look like by 2030. With millennials joining the workforce and the use of innovation and technology, work will be done much differently than traditional work. Advance technology will replace some of the more hazardous work activities so that industry can be more productive with less risk. Workers will need to achieve a higher level of understanding about computer and programming. Some workers will continue to work in the corporate world while other will expand into issues concerning the environment. More workers will work remotely with platform interfaces that connect more people across the globe. Face-to-face interventions will be done on screen panels rather than in-person. The outcome will be same but the cost will be much lower and easier to accomplish. Travel and other safety risks will be reduced or eliminated. Cost for mass production will be reduced so that more people can afford the consumer products manufactured. Recycling, reusing, and repurposing items will provide opportunity to manage waste so that our landfills don't exceed capacity. Vehicles will be safer to drive and the emissions may be reduced or eliminated with electric and autonomous driving vehicles and trucks. Life at work will be more holistic so that we are focused on total worker health rather than specific targeted programs. There will be greater communication and a deep dive on a wide range of subjects. The future is bright but teachers and our youths must be up to the challenge, if we are to succeed.
FIWARE Global Summit - The Smart City Program in Japan: Cities as Enablers of...FIWARE
Presentation by Kenji Hiramoto
Chief Strategist (IT), Cabinet Secretariat, Government of Japan
FIWARE Global Summit
23-24 October 2019 - Berlin, Germany
Smart life: Hands on training on property automation design and commissioning...Redwan Ferdous
Engr. Redwan Ferdous took a session on "Smart Life: Hands-On training on property automation design and commissioning through IoT" in collaboration with Dept. of CSE and BHTPA in Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology (CUET) back in 27th December-2021 Monday.
In total 02 sessions, almost 120 students participated in the hands-on training. 1st session attended from 2pm-4:50pm and 2nd session attended from 5pm-6:50pm. All the participants were from L-3,T-2 of Dept. of CSE of CUET.
In the session, different commercial IoT based home automation products were shown along with their controlling mechanism-practically. Also, different career and research opportunities were also discussed in the session.
Johannes Bauer, Director of the Quello Center at Michigan State University, covers various aspects of the digital economy including opportunities and challenges, technological and economic drivers, value creation in the digital economy, harnessing benefits and minimizing risks, and measuring the digital economy.
Commodity versus Complexity - IT as Innovation in Technology (Box CIO Briefing)Martin Hamilton
From the joint Jisc/Box CIO briefing in January 2015 on our File Sync and Share deal. In this talk I look at IT functions that have increasingly been commoditized, and some of the trends and signifiers that point to where institutional IT services can truly add value in the future
Another Presentation On the Future of TechnologyDaniel Mintz
Presentation I made to the Modern Technology and Management Institute (MTMI). I wrote up a description here:
http://www.ourownlittlecorner.com/2015/09/18/still-another-presentation-on-the-future-of-technology/
Advanced manufacturing syposium 2016 siaa colin kohColin Koh (許国仁)
Abstract:. Smart Nation, Advanced Manufacturing, IoT and Robotics are the few key focus area in Singapore to ensure economic grow by improving productivity, efficiency and drive innovation. There are still many challenges ahead at the same time provide opportunity for emerging SMEs and start-up. This presentation will highlight the Digitisation of automation technology and current stage of standard development in IoT and Robotics from the industry perspective.
Infusing social innovation in FI for Manufacturing-FIA AthensFITMAN FI
The slides of the presentation provided by Fenareti Lampathaki to the pre-FIA Athens Workshop "Mobile Crowdsensing, Social and Big Data as Innovation Enablers for Future Internet Cloud-based Architectures and Services" on March 18th, 2014.
Economic and tax policies for IoT - internet of things - canadapaul young cpa, cga
- What is the IoT?
- What impacts IoT
- ISP broadband speeds
- WAN/LAN
- Connecting to devices
- Management of both Structure and Unstructured Data
- Strategic Alliances/Partnerships
- R&D Tax Credits
- Stock Options
- Innovation Centers
- The wrong image of IoT, it's not all gadgets & wearables
- The basics of an IoT solution
- SWOT
- IoT canvas, how to design your business idea into an implementation model
- Real-life cases & implementations
If successful, 5G will radically transform societies & economies over the next 10-20 years ushering a new era of Digital Humans & Digital Enterprises. 5G must enhance humans & empower new generations to navigate new worlds
Dr Alisdair Ritchie | Research: The Answer to the Problem of IoT SecurityPro Mrkt
Dr Alisdair Ritchie from the WMG, University of Warwick is taking us through his research on IoT security at the Midlands Cyber Security Expo 2019 #midscybersecurity19
State of the market for IoT/IIoT and the cloud: What are the emerging opportunities for using interconnected devices and the cloud to provide enterprises with operational efficiencies and more effective mobility?
How to survive the Fourth Industrial Revolution: a guide to Digital Manufactu...Bill Harpley
This is a short but highly informative guide to Digital Manufacturing and the Industry 4.0 programme. In a nutshell, this means the seamless deployment of Advanced Automation, Digital Networks, Data Analytics and Cyber-security.
It is intended to cater the needs of SMEs and micro-enterprises in the Manufacturing sector.
I hope that after reading through it, you will feel motivated to take up the challenge of deploying Industry 4.0 in the UK.
How the Digital Transformation is going to change the world of Work 4.0 with respect to the Introduction of Industry 4.0 technology. Will Jobs reduce or we will have more jobs with higher pay. An interesting analysis.
(PROJEKTURA) Digital Economy for Lider Media 2015Ratko Mutavdzic
Digital Economy Short story on where is digital economy momentum in EU, what are the eky prioritites and what would be the impact of digital economy on the society
It was a 2-hour long seminar, where the audiences were enlightened with Robots and Robotics and thus the possible and bright future career scopes. The audiences were mainly School and College level students, who will be in the national workforce within the next 3-4 years.
Almost 168+ participants joined. It was organized under EMK Center's 'MakerLab'. It was held on 17th December 2020 from 8 pm-10 pm. The speaker was MakerLab mentor Mr. Redwan Ferdous.
Information Communication Technology
Malaysia's Digital Economy: ICT
Business Information and Business Intelligence
Growth Hacking Economy System Concept
The future of work examines how we work today and what work will look like by 2030. With millennials joining the workforce and the use of innovation and technology, work will be done much differently than traditional work. Advance technology will replace some of the more hazardous work activities so that industry can be more productive with less risk. Workers will need to achieve a higher level of understanding about computer and programming. Some workers will continue to work in the corporate world while other will expand into issues concerning the environment. More workers will work remotely with platform interfaces that connect more people across the globe. Face-to-face interventions will be done on screen panels rather than in-person. The outcome will be same but the cost will be much lower and easier to accomplish. Travel and other safety risks will be reduced or eliminated. Cost for mass production will be reduced so that more people can afford the consumer products manufactured. Recycling, reusing, and repurposing items will provide opportunity to manage waste so that our landfills don't exceed capacity. Vehicles will be safer to drive and the emissions may be reduced or eliminated with electric and autonomous driving vehicles and trucks. Life at work will be more holistic so that we are focused on total worker health rather than specific targeted programs. There will be greater communication and a deep dive on a wide range of subjects. The future is bright but teachers and our youths must be up to the challenge, if we are to succeed.
FIWARE Global Summit - The Smart City Program in Japan: Cities as Enablers of...FIWARE
Presentation by Kenji Hiramoto
Chief Strategist (IT), Cabinet Secretariat, Government of Japan
FIWARE Global Summit
23-24 October 2019 - Berlin, Germany
Smart life: Hands on training on property automation design and commissioning...Redwan Ferdous
Engr. Redwan Ferdous took a session on "Smart Life: Hands-On training on property automation design and commissioning through IoT" in collaboration with Dept. of CSE and BHTPA in Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology (CUET) back in 27th December-2021 Monday.
In total 02 sessions, almost 120 students participated in the hands-on training. 1st session attended from 2pm-4:50pm and 2nd session attended from 5pm-6:50pm. All the participants were from L-3,T-2 of Dept. of CSE of CUET.
In the session, different commercial IoT based home automation products were shown along with their controlling mechanism-practically. Also, different career and research opportunities were also discussed in the session.
Johannes Bauer, Director of the Quello Center at Michigan State University, covers various aspects of the digital economy including opportunities and challenges, technological and economic drivers, value creation in the digital economy, harnessing benefits and minimizing risks, and measuring the digital economy.
Commodity versus Complexity - IT as Innovation in Technology (Box CIO Briefing)Martin Hamilton
From the joint Jisc/Box CIO briefing in January 2015 on our File Sync and Share deal. In this talk I look at IT functions that have increasingly been commoditized, and some of the trends and signifiers that point to where institutional IT services can truly add value in the future
Another Presentation On the Future of TechnologyDaniel Mintz
Presentation I made to the Modern Technology and Management Institute (MTMI). I wrote up a description here:
http://www.ourownlittlecorner.com/2015/09/18/still-another-presentation-on-the-future-of-technology/
Advanced manufacturing syposium 2016 siaa colin kohColin Koh (許国仁)
Abstract:. Smart Nation, Advanced Manufacturing, IoT and Robotics are the few key focus area in Singapore to ensure economic grow by improving productivity, efficiency and drive innovation. There are still many challenges ahead at the same time provide opportunity for emerging SMEs and start-up. This presentation will highlight the Digitisation of automation technology and current stage of standard development in IoT and Robotics from the industry perspective.
Infusing social innovation in FI for Manufacturing-FIA AthensFITMAN FI
The slides of the presentation provided by Fenareti Lampathaki to the pre-FIA Athens Workshop "Mobile Crowdsensing, Social and Big Data as Innovation Enablers for Future Internet Cloud-based Architectures and Services" on March 18th, 2014.
Economic and tax policies for IoT - internet of things - canadapaul young cpa, cga
- What is the IoT?
- What impacts IoT
- ISP broadband speeds
- WAN/LAN
- Connecting to devices
- Management of both Structure and Unstructured Data
- Strategic Alliances/Partnerships
- R&D Tax Credits
- Stock Options
- Innovation Centers
- The wrong image of IoT, it's not all gadgets & wearables
- The basics of an IoT solution
- SWOT
- IoT canvas, how to design your business idea into an implementation model
- Real-life cases & implementations
If successful, 5G will radically transform societies & economies over the next 10-20 years ushering a new era of Digital Humans & Digital Enterprises. 5G must enhance humans & empower new generations to navigate new worlds
Dr Alisdair Ritchie | Research: The Answer to the Problem of IoT SecurityPro Mrkt
Dr Alisdair Ritchie from the WMG, University of Warwick is taking us through his research on IoT security at the Midlands Cyber Security Expo 2019 #midscybersecurity19
State of the market for IoT/IIoT and the cloud: What are the emerging opportunities for using interconnected devices and the cloud to provide enterprises with operational efficiencies and more effective mobility?
How to survive the Fourth Industrial Revolution: a guide to Digital Manufactu...Bill Harpley
This is a short but highly informative guide to Digital Manufacturing and the Industry 4.0 programme. In a nutshell, this means the seamless deployment of Advanced Automation, Digital Networks, Data Analytics and Cyber-security.
It is intended to cater the needs of SMEs and micro-enterprises in the Manufacturing sector.
I hope that after reading through it, you will feel motivated to take up the challenge of deploying Industry 4.0 in the UK.
Here's an overview of the Oxford Cyber Security Cluster for those who might be interested. The cluster is highly active, with over fifty member organisations from industry, business support and academia.
Connected & Autonomous vehicles: cybersecurity on a grand scale v1Bill Harpley
A presentation which was given at 'How the Internet of Things is Changing Cyber Security - an event organised by Optimise Hub (Portsmouth University) on January 26th 2017 at Havant.
- This talk describes the issues relating to cybersecurity of Connected Cars and Autonomous Vehicles. It begins with an introduction to technology and standards. It then looks at the key security challenges and asks how prepared we are to deal with the future risks.
- It is a perfect case study in the challenge of achieving cybersecurity on a massive scale.
Public policy aspects of Connected and Autonomous VehiclesBill Harpley
This is a presentation which I gave to the Brighton IoT Forum meetup group ( of which I am the founder ).
I outlines the key public policy challenges for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles.
It then considers policy responses from the UK Government and examines selected cases studies from U.S. , China and Germany.
In this presentation, I will cover the the public's response to Google Glass as the first mass marketed wearable computer device. I will show the roller coaster of trends, volumes, technology, and reporting techniques of this data surrounding Google Glass. There is a plethora of market research data to mine due to the way Google has announced this product nearly two years before its availability. Because of this, we can critically review Google's Public Relations, Video Marketing, Exclusive Rollout, and other user adoption strategies.
Some findings like Natural Language Processing of comments, posts, and tweets along instances of paired keyword terms and similar technology comparisons will lend insight to the overall public reaction to Google Glass. I collected this information from both the general Internet (headlines and comments) as well as social media sites like: YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Google+. I will support this talk with graphs and visual data collected and crunched through API's and social media reporting tools.
The conclusions of my analysis should point to how ready the general public is for this new computing platform.
Contact me, Pete Wassell: pete AT augmate DOT com for the speaker notes.
or
https://docs DOT google DOT com/presentation/d/1iHYN2oeXMtuKx9vHqtO5L1bwIh8SQjA7hq821ZWS7hU/edit#slide=id.p
This is a talk which I gave to the Brighton IoT Forum on 23/03/2016. It looks at the challenges of scaling IoT security from the perspective of protection of critical national infrastructure from cyber-attack. It then campares this to the security scaling challenges of a small startup business with a great product idea. The presentation concludes that there are similarities between both 'micro' and 'macro' IoT scaling scenarios. In both cases it is essential to cultivate a 'security mindset'.
In this presentation we will talk about the IoT trends and technological solutions in 2016. We will discuss about the role of developers, smart homes, wearable and connected cars.
This presentation is the result of our yearly strategic review. The IoT market is experiencing explosive growth around the world. It is becoming a much more mature field and our aim is to build services for this world.
Business intelligence on the US greentech marketEC2i
EC2i objective is to support the internationalisation of European Cleantech SMEs in China and the United States by conducting cluster missions and facilitating cross-cluster partnerships. In this sense, attention is paid to developing tools to guide SMEs through the process of forming consortia and developing projects with clients.
Business intelligence for relevant US and Chinese markets have been collected in reports and are here disseminated to SMEs.
The tools presented here address general barrieres to internationalisation as well as more specific problems SMEs face when integrating themselves into complex, international value chains.
Digital Catapult Centre Brighton February Breakfast Drop-in with special gue...wired_sussex
Friday 5th February 2016
The Digital Catapult Centre Brighton's Business Breakfast Drop-In events are designed to share news and opportunities for engaging with the project as it develops.
Bill Harpley joined us at this Breakfast Drop-In who gave an introduction to himself and his growing IoT Group in Brighton.
So you got yourself a sparkling new data management platform that is supposed to pull together inputs of all sorts to drive everything from ad buying to CRM? But where do you start in making something of this new machine. Lenovo uses data to drive media buys not only across channels but global borders as well. Its Director of Global Digital Marketing explains how it it works.
Introduction: Technological and methodical pillars for Smarter Environment Enablement
Part I: Smarter Environments Theoretical Grounding
What is a Smart Environment?
Technological enablers: IoT, Web of Data and Persuasive Technologies
Technology mediated Human Collaboration: need for co-creation
Killer application domains: Open Government & Age-friendly cities
Part II: Review of core enablers for Smarter Environments
Co-creation methodologies: Service Design and Design for Thinking
Internet of Things and Web of Things
Web of Data: Linked Data, Crowdsourcing & Big Data
Persuasive technologies and Behaviour Change
Part III: Implications for CyberParks
European projects on enabling Smarter Environments: WeLive, City4Age, GreenSoul
Reflections on the need for collaboration among stakeholders mediated with technology to realize CyberParks
Conclusions and practical implications
Digital Catapult Centre Brighton - Bill Harpleywired_sussex
At The Digital Catapult Centre Brighton event, Tech Beyond The Screen: Connectivity & Infrastructure on Wednesday 2nd March, Bill Harpley talked about Brighton's Everynet project.
Future Internet Assembly Athens, presentations on Future Internet Projects Am...Katalin Gallyas
This presentation was given in Athens, on the Future Internet Assembly, 18 March 2014.
it is focuses on the Future Internet related projects and results that Amsterdam has implemented in the period of 2011-2014.
A research in progress on smart cities globally. We look at cases in China, Japan, Malaysia, United States and Spain within Europe. We are also working on an ecosystem of people interested in smart city development and policies we invite you to join at https://plus.google.com/communities/108050236028662715756?partnerid=ogpy0
About URBAN INNO
A significantly better linkage of actors within urban innovation ecosystems (public authorities, research organizations, industry as well as end-users respectively customers and citizens) is needed for a better use of innovation potentials. Public and private sectors recognize that there is especially a significant gap in the field of participation in innovation processes from people as citizens and as users and customers. Many smart solutions, technologies and services are not used widely because of the lack of knowledge and motivation or acceptance of end-users.
URBAN INNO focuses on maximizing innovation potentials of urban ecosystems through:
- Better linking actors in innovation systems by establishing and interlinking quadruple helix clusters and networks in the partner regions; and
- Developing and implementing new participatory methods and tools to engage end-users in innovation processes with the objective to have educated and motivated users.
URBAN INNO will be implemented in small-medium sized urban ecosystems in central Europe with strong replication potential due to the big number of similar-sized cities in the EU. Quadruple-helix networks will be established and regional/urban innovation action plans developed (setup of demo centres and testbeds for industry). In parallel, new participatory methods and tools will be developed and tested in pilot projects. Participative urban environments will substantially improve their innovation performance with the established innovation environment. A transnational cooperation strategy and platform will provide all interested regions the best available participatory tools and qualified facilitators and best practice will enable transfer and exchange of urban innovation models and practices throughout central Europe.
Our project is funded by the Interreg CENTRAL EUROPE Programme that encourages cooperation on shared challenges in central Europe. With 246 million Euro of funding from the European Regional Development Fund, the programme supports institutions to work together beyond borders to improve cities and regions in Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia.
Professor Isam Shahrour Summer Course « Smart and Sustainable City » Chapter...Isam Shahrour
This lecture presents the Smart City Concept. It includes presentation of the city challenges, the response of the Smart City to these challenges, the Smart City concept, a survey of the smart city development in the world and the methodology of the implementation of this concept.
Slides from Mr. Georgios Tselentis, EC, DG CONNECT, Net Futures, Experimental Platforms.
Presented at CSC 2016, session2: Open Session on IoT Large Scale Pilots for Reference Zones in EU cities.
New Horizons for a Data-Driven Economy – A Roadmap for Big Data in Europe inside-BigData.com
In this video from the ISC Big Data'14 Conference, Edward Curry from the NUI Galway & Nuria de Lama Sanchez from Atos present: New Horizons for a Data-Driven Economy – A Roadmap for Big Data in Europe.
"In this talk we summarize the results of the BIG project including analysis of foundational Big Data research technologies, technology and strategy roadmaps to enable business to understand the potential of Big Data technologies across different sectors, together with the necessary collaboration and dissemination infrastructure to link technology suppliers, integrators and leading user organizations."
Learn more:
http://www.isc-events.com/bigdata14/schedule.html
and
http://big-project.eu/
Watch the video presentation: http://wp.me/p3RLEV-37G
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
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Building an 'Internet of Things' ( IoT ) technology cluster in Brighton
1. Building an IoT Cluster in
Brighton
Needs, vision and strategy
A presentation by Bill Harpley
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2. Linux | Cloud | Wireless | IoT
www.astius.co.uk
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3. Who am I ?
Bill Harpley MSc MIEE
Founder and Principal Consultant
Astius Technology
bill.harpley@astius.co.uk
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4. Overview
1. A brief history of Connected Things
2. The Internet of Things explained
3. Policies and Frameworks
4. Anatomy of a Technology Cluster
5. Stages of IoT development
6. Building a Brighton Cluster
7. Long term vision
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6. Mont Blanc 1874
● French engineers built a
system of weather and
snow-depth sensors on
the slopes of Mont Blanc.
● Real-time information
about mountain
conditions was
transmitted to Paris.
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7. Telemetry
“The use of electronic devices to record or
measure a distant event and transmit data to a
receiver” - Collins Dictionary
● Remote monitoring is nothing new
● Earliest examples exploited the 19th century
telegraph network
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8. Telemetry applications
● Drilling wells for oil and gas
● Space exploration (e.g. Mars Rover)
● Water quality and flow management
● Energy system monitoring (e.g. electricity grid)
● Irrigation systems in agriculture
● Remote monitoring of patients
In fact, the modern world could not function
without Telemetry!
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9. Machine communications (M2M)
Direct communication between devices over
a communication channel (wired, wireless,
satellite).
Examples:
– Vehicle tracking, management and routing
– Meter reading (e.g. electricity)
– Security (video cameras, event detection + alarming)
– Retail point-of-sale (POS)
– Health monitoring of patients in their homes
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12. Old technology, new ideas
• The basic concept of creating a hyper-connected world
of people and objects has been around since at least
the mid-90s
• Kevin Ashton – a British academic at MIT in Boston U.S.A.
– coined the term “Internet of Things” in 1999
• Much of the basic technology used in IoT has a long pedigree
( > 30 years ). Examples: computers, sensor networks,
databases, wireless networks
• It's real power comes from a combination of mature and
novel new technologies. Examples: cloud computing,
machine learning, data analytics
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13. IoT is very ambiguous
● Gartner - " The IoT is the network of dedicated physical
objects (things) that contain embedded technology to sense
or interact with their internal state or external environment.
The IoT comprises an ecosystem that includes things,
communication, applications and data analysis."
● EU-IERC - "A dynamic global network infrastructure with self-
configuring capabilities based on standard and interoperable
communication protocols where physical and virtual “things”
have identities, physical attributes, and virtual personalities
and use intelligent interfaces, and are seamlessly integrated
into the information network."
One broad vision. Many competing definitions.
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21. Journey through the hype-cycle
Table shows different stages of progression through the
hype-cycle for a range of IoT & related technologies.
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22. M2M v. IoT: what's the difference?
● M2M – short for “Machine to Machine”
may use 'old' proprietary technologies and communication
protocols
focused on monitoring (and perhaps controlling) the operation of
a single asset or physical phenomenon
typically leads to 'silos' of data (inaccessible to other applications)
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M2M v. IoT: what's the difference?
Internet of Things (IoT) – similar to M2M but with
important differences:
● Utilises common Internet protocols and
infrastructure
● IoT will evolve to the point where physical objects can
connect, communicate and interact with each other
● Data can be combined from multiple sources (e.g. social
media, geolocation, CRM, Weather forecasts) to improve
decision models
● Often defined in terms of vertical markets (e.g. Smart
Agriculture, Smart Cities, Smart Utilities)
Bill Harpley
26. Open Data
● Movement towards public and private sector bodies
making their data available for public use
● Such data can be used to build useful applications
for citizens
● Just a few examples (click on links):
– Open Glasgow
– London Data Store
– Brussels
– New York
● Nothing much in Brighton
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27. Further reading
• The Internet Society have
produced a handy briefing
paper ( 53 pages) which
you can download here
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29. A global view of the Internet of Things
● IoT has many transnational champions:
– World Economic Forum (“The Fourth Industrial
Revolution”)
– European Commission (sponsored research projects)
– ITU (International Telecoms Union)
– Major corporations such as Google, Facebook,
Microsoft, Cisco, Intel
● Governments around the world see IoT as an
engine for future growth of businesses,
employment and tax revenues
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30. UK Government funding for IoT
● Government funding seen as
crucial to stimulate market for
IoT
– seed funding for IoT startups
– funding for HyperCat (£10m)
– funding via InnovateUK
– funding via EPSRC (e.g.
proposal for £10m IoT hub)
● Further funding from EU
collaborative programmes
and competitions
(e.g. Horizon 2020)
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31. IoT Clusters in the UK
● Major clusters in London, Cambridge, Bristol,
Milton Keynes (and now Manchester)
● Other cities aspire to create clusters
(e.g. Glasgow, Belfast, Sheffield, Liverpool,
Birmingham, Oxford, Guildford)
● IoT is seen as an engine of future growth for
jobs, businesses and civic pride
● Nothing much in Brighton at the moment
(but this is about to change!)
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33. The birth of Silicon Valley
● Photo shows famous
garage where Dave
Packard and Bill Hewlett
founded the HP
company in the late
1930s
● Formally recognised as
the Birthplace of Silicon
Valley
● California Historical
Landmark #976
367 Addison Avenue, Palo Alto, California
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34. Silicon Valley: the roots of success
● Many reasons cited as to how Silicon Valley
took root:
– Government spending in the early days (e.g. NASA
space programme)
– Free-wheeling, libertarian, hippie culture of the late
60s and early 70s
– Easy access to capital (and growth of VC community)
– Ability to attract talent from all over the world
– 52% of Silicon Valley startups are now founded by
immigrants (not born in US) – figure from 2012
– Read this story from Forbes (and watch the video)
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35. The Silicon Valley business ecosystem
● Think of this as a
complete 'ecosytem' to
support technology
ventures
● This has evolved over
half a century to
become Silicon Valley
● Not easy to reproduce!
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36. So what's the secret?
● Governments around the
world have tried to
emulate the success of
Silicon Valley
● More recent research
shows that the critical
factor is corporate culture
– Intense focus on customer
needs
– Strong alignment between
Innovation and Business
strategies
– Prizes fresh talent and new
ideas
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37. The Influence of Culture
● Booz & Company’s 2011 Global Innovation 1000 study
describes three core profiles that characterise:
– a company’s approach to incremental versus breakthrough
innovation
– the role that end-customers play in defining future product needs
● Categories of profile are:
– Need Seekers
– Market Readers
– Technology Drivers
● Let's take a closer look ...
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38. Need Seekers
● Need Seekers: adopt a first-mover
strategy.
– Actively and directly engage both current and potential
customers to help shape new products and services
based on superior end-user understanding.
– Often address unarticulated needs and then work to
be first to market with the resulting new products and
services.
– Apple would be a prime example
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Market Readers
● Market Readers adopt a second-mover
strategy.
– They closely monitor both their customers and
competitors, but they adopt a more cautious strategy.
– They focus largely on creating value through
incremental innovations to their products and being
“fast followers” in the marketplace
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40. Technology Drivers
● Technology Drivers follow the direction
determined by their technological capabilities:
– Leverage their sustained investments in R&D to drive
both breakthrough innovation and incremental
change.
– Theirs is the least proactive of the three approaches in
directly contacting customers.
– They often seek to solve the unarticulated needs of
their customers through leading-edge new technology.
– Intel would be a prime example.
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41. Which category performs best?
● The Global Innovation 1000 study showed that
Need Seekers were noted for:
– Facilitating the strongest alignment of innovation and
business strategies with corporate culture
– Achieving superior financial performance over time.
● Some 46 percent of Silicon Valley companies
follow this model, compared with only 28 percent
of U.S. companies in the Global Innovation 1000.
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43. Model for IoT evolution
● Before we talk about building an IoT cluster we
need to understand:
– The building blocks of IoT technology
– How we can bring 'connected' products to market
● Here is a three-stage model to help us:
1) Foundation
2) Enablement
3) Marketization
● Note that business opportunities exist within
each of these stages
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44. Stage 1: Foundations
● This phase creates the essential technologies which
can help us to create IoT products and services
– Sensor technology: needs to be low cost and small form factor
(e.g. surface mount packaging) and capable of sensing physical
phenomena to required degree of accuracy (e.g. position,
temperature, pressure)
– Low-power processors and MCUs: much IoT hardware will be
powered by batteries
– Connectivity everywhere: wireless and cellular connectivity will
dominate the IoT landscape (e.g. Bluetooth, LTE)
– Power efficiency: benchmark for IoT is now 10+ years for
battery life. Will be achieved by improved battery technology,
energy harvesting and low-power hardware design
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45. Stage 2: Enablement
● So far, we have a bunch of interesting
technologies. This phase is about building
scalable infrastructure to enable IoT:
– Security, Identity and Privacy
– Interoperability between connected devices and systems
– Systems and device management (complex system!)
– Development of smart, low-power algorithms
– Reliability engineering
– Implementation of IPv6
– Low cost data storage in the Cloud
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46. Stage 3: Marketization
● By this stage we have built the infrastructure to
support ubiquitous IoT
– Smart devices will possess intelligence and
connectivity to the Internet
– P2P co-operation between devices may be enabled by
edge-computing
– Data may be blended from many sources to build a
comprehensive picture using data analytics and
visualisation tools
– Applications limited only by our own imagination!
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48. What skills do we need?
● Wireless / mobile networks
● Hardware design
● Cybersecurity
● Cloud computing
● Databases (SQL / NOSQL)
● Data analytics
● Machine learning
● Data visualisation
● Software development
● IPv6 networking
● Marketing
● Social media
● Business model design
● User Experience (UX)
● Service Design
● Product Design
● The 3-stage model is a useful guide to helping us
decide what kind of skills are needed to build an IoT
cluster
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50. The First Digital Revolution
● The digital boom of the last two decades was fuelled by growth of
content
– Email, video, web, social media, voice
– But signs of maturity in this sector!
– Innovation mainly incremental (but can still be disruptive)
– Many people in Brighton have done very well of this boom!
– Real danger of complacency and reluctance to change!!
● Prime source of innovation over the next decade will be fuelled by
mining of raw data – using technologies such as:
– Sensor networks
– Data Analytics
– Machine Learning
– Data Visualisation
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51. The Second Digital Revolution
● Tech scene in Greater Brighton area can ride the wave of the
Second Digital Revolution by embracing emerging
technologies and business models:
– IoT, 3D Printing, Blockchain, 5G, Robotics, AR/VR, Wearables
– Business Model Design
● Why embrace these new technologies?
– Graduates need jobs (possible “brain-drain” otherwise)
– These technologies offer best hope for long term business growth
and employment
– Broaden the local skills base
– Provide jobs for people displaced by “white collar” automation
– Attract inward investment from big industry players
– Need to compete for talent with other tech hubs (e.g. London)
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IoT in Brighton looks doomed?
● Oh dear, the outlook for IoT in Brighton
looks pretty dismal
– We can't compete with Silicon Valley
– London sucks in a lot of our resources (talent, ideas)
– Brighton & Hove Council is broke
– We have no Smart Cities programme
– We are not in receipt of cash handouts from
Government
● Maybe it's time to admit defeat.
● Or maybe it's time to find another way ...
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Finding our own way forward
● Here are 8 practical steps we can take to
make Greater Brighton a central hub for IoT
activity and research
● Think of it as the ultimate “need finding”
exercise!
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56. 1. Support the DigiCat programme
● Brighton Digital Catapult has a long-term
programme to develop skills in:
– 'Internet of Place'
– Blockchain
– Data analytics
– Retail experience
● Organises many events and meetings
● Fosters collaboration between business and
academia
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57. 2. Support the IoT Forum
● I launched Brighton IoT Forum meetup group June 2016 aims
of:
– Developing IoT capability within Greater Brighton and mid-
Sussex area
– Helping foster collaboration between business and academia
– Attracting big industry names to city (e.g. Samsung, Google)
– Encouraging more participation by women in tech sector
– Building bridges between the artistic, design and technology
communities
– Long-term construction of a business eco-system which supports
‘need finding’, innovation and risk-taking
● Membership currently stands at 400+
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58. 3. Support the Everynet project
● Work has started on the Everynet project
● Aim is to build a dedicated low-power network (LPWAN)
of sensors and actuators (switches )
– Open source hardware and software
– Open standard developed by the LoRa Alliance
– Crowdfunded and crowdsourced
– Inspired by the global Things Network
– Open platform for innovation
– Develop new technology skills within the community
● Public workshops will be organised in the near future
● Everynet should be operational by September
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59. 4. Harness the tools of Social Innovation
● We do not have the resources to build a
Smart City (expensive infrastructure!!)
● But we do have the tools to build a
Smart Community
– Civic Engagement: social media and open meetings
– Open Data: used to promote accountability and
develop useful applications for the local community
– Hackathons: use as an open exercise in
'need finding' to discover how data can be leveraged
for the social good
– Crowdfunding & Crowdsourcing: funding for
community projects and local tech businesses
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60. 5. Deploy Brighton's secret weapon
● Brighton has a large community of artists and
designers
● It also has a large community of technologists
● But they don't talk to each other very much
● 'Internet of Things' is multi-disciplinary, which
opens up interesting possibilities for collaboration
between the different communities
● More about this later ….
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6. Organise an IoT conference
● An IoT conference would do much to put
Brighton 'on the map'
● Just an idea at this stage but I will definitely
organise one in either:
– Autumn 2016
– Spring 2017
● Watch this space for further announcements!
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62. 7. Look for new synergies
● IoT Forum Meetup No. 4 was devoted to 'Connected Cars and
Autonomous Vehicles'
● Pattern of convergence between "information businesses" (e.g.
Google) and "automotive businesses" (e.g. BMW).
● What makes this significant is that in the Brighton and mid-Sussex
area, we have all of the skills to capitalise on this trend:
– Talented academic researchers in our universities
– Good companies in the automotive sector (Continental, Tesla, Ricardo)
– Communities of practice in Product Design, UX, Service Design,
Software Development
– Major insurance company (RSA in Horsham)
● Meetup brought people from these diverse groups together to meet
and talk to each other (possibly for the first time!)
● Potential for collaboration and new business opportunities
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63. 8. Bring stakeholders together
● It's important to engage with all key
stakeholders in order to define a common vision
and set of goals
● Universities
● Technology
Businesses
● Local authorities
● Non-tech businesses
● Community groups
● Digital Catapult
● Wired Sussex
● Chambers of
Commerce
● Coast2Capital
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65. Alternative Futures
● Many cities in the UK have a clearly defined
strategy for the future
● Here are a few examples (click to follow links):
– Bristol is Open
– MKSmart (Milton Keynes)
– Glasgow Future City
– Manchester Corridor
– Birmingham Smart City
● To the best of my knowledge, no such vision
exists for Greater Brighton
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Brighton Powerhouse
● It's important to realise that we have a choice:
– Become an insignificant branch office of London's
Silicon Roundabout
– Develop a vision of Brighton as a major centre for
research and development of cutting-edge
technologies & tech businesses
● I repeat, we have that choice!
● So what follows is my own personal vision of
how to develop Brighton into major hub for the
Second Digital Revolution
● I call this programme Brighton Powerhouse
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67. Brighton Powerhouse: phase 1
● We need to implement the 8 step programme which I
outlined previously
● Of critical importance is the Everynet project
– Phase 1 would provide a pilot sensor network along a
corridor from Brighton Pier to Lewes (past both University
campuses)
– Provide an opportunity for businesses & other stakeholders
to explore the capabilities of new data-driven technologies
– Develop showcase projects to demonstrate to the world
● Develop a global outlook by collaborating with similar
projects in other parts of the world
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68. Project No.1 : Thingbook
● 'Thingbook' is a concept which is analogous to
Facebook
– Can we develop new ways of interacting and
manipulating hyperconnected objects?
– How to we give a “face” to the 'things'?
● Provides a perfect platform for collaboration
between artists, designers and technologists
● Often known as the Social Internet of Things
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70. Project No. 2 : the Silicon Mile
● Promote the area from Grand Parade up to Preston Park
as a high-tech hub for technology businesses
( the “Silicon Mile”)
● Takes inspiration from:
– Shoreditch High Street in London (centre of Tech Universe)
– Ibeacons Living Lab project in Amsterdam
● Everynet would play a pivotal role in this project
● Silicon Mile would help to regenerate the London
Road area
● Fusebox and new Sussex Innovation Centre would
provide strong technology focus
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71. Brighton Powerhouse: phase 2
● Phase 1 would take 18 months to complete
● In this next phase the goal would be to scale out
– Expand the Everynet project from a pilot to a
sensor network which covers the whole
Greater Brighton area
– Continue to build up the Silicon Mile as a hub
for technology businesses
– Promote Brighton as “Tech City by the Sea”
– Develop support infrastructure in Finance & Legal
to make us less dependant on London
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72. Brighton Powerhouse: phase 3
● Phase 2 would take 24 months to complete
● In this next phase the goal would be to scale up
– Provide better support to technology companies to
help them scale to 100+ employees
– Work hard to attract inward investment from big
players in the industry
● Acid test would be whether we can persuade
Google to set up shop in Brighton
– I even have a name for it: Google Pavilion
● Phase 2 would take 3 years to complete
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73. Key take-aways from this lecture
1) We have reviewed the technological basis of M2M and IoT
(and discussed the differences between them).
2) IoT develops in 3 stages – Foundation, Enablement and
Marketization – business opportunities exist at each stage.
3) Governments around the world see IoT as a strategic source of
growth in tax revenue, employment and economic activity
4) We have identified 8 key steps to develop the kind of skills and
business environment required to nurture the growth of an IoT cluster
in Brighton
5) I have outlined a 3-phase programme called Brighton Powerhouse
which could totally transform the technology scene and make the city
a major hub for IoT & other emerging technologies
6) Most important of all, we have a choice as to what happens
in the future! We can all play a part in determining that future.
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74. Useful resources
● The Internet of Things Report
● Postscapes
● Thingful
● IoT Forum
● EU IoT Digital Market agenda
● IERC Research Cluster for IoT
● The Blackett review
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75. FREE Event
March 2cnd 5:30 – 8:00pm Brighton Digital Catapult
“Tech Beyond the Screen”
We will be talking about low-power community IoT
networks, inspired by the Things Network of
Amsterdam.
I will be introducing people to the Everynet project
and talking about how the local community benefits
will benefit.
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