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Designing Discreetness
How do you design applications that remove screens, and not add more rectangles of light to your environment? A lot of public screens are ignored, ‚banner blindness’ manifesting itself physically....
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Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino gave the opening key-note at ThingsCon, in her usual thought provoking way backed up by conviction and active experience. There is much to take home from her presentation...
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Deconstruction of the Smart Fridge
The deconstruction of the smart fridge is one of things I took away from Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino’s opening key-note at ThingsCon. I think I have heard versions of the ‚smart fridge’ ever since I...
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What the Internet of Things Is (Not)
Another element I want to highlight from the ThingsCon opening keynote by Alex Deschamps-Sonsino (Designswarm), is her discussion of what the internet of things (IoT) is and is not. Of course the...
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Three Prototypes For Everything
Matt Webb, during his presentation at ThingsCon discussing the development of Little Printer said: We make three prototypes for everything. A technical prototype (electronics etc.), a ‘what it looks...
View ArticleBuilding an IoT Infrastructure for My City
Earlier this year a group of Internet of Things enthusiasts in a month or so launched an open communication infrastructure across the entire city of Amsterdam, enabling anyone to let their IoT devices...
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First TTN Enschede Meet-Up A Success
Last Thursday the first TTN Enschede Meet-up was held. The Things Network (TTN) is an open infrastructure, using LoRaWan, which lets Internet of Things (IoT) devices communicate data to the cloud, from...
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Measure Your City / Meetjestad.nl
Now that we moved from Enschede to Amersfoort two weeks ago, we are starting to participate in local activities. Today I joined a workshop to build a sensor-hut for the ‘Measure your city‘ project....
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Adding Sensors to the Home with Point
I’ve backed the Kickstarter project Point. Point is a device that on the front-end, in your home, works as a sensor hub and alarm. At the back-end it feeds a machine learning database that learns your...
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The Things Have Arrived
A little over 2 years ago I backed a Kickstarter project The Things Network. It’s an order of magnitude cheaper version of a gateway for a LoRa (long range) network, for internet of things sensors etc....
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My The Things Network Gateway Activated
After receiving the hardware for The Things Network, I now activated the gateway. I had first planned to run up a Cat6 to the top floor but I couldn’t successfully get the cable through the empty...
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Sensor Hub Almost Back in Action
This fall my Measure Your City sensor hub fell out of a tree during a storm. It seemed to be damaged, so I put it aside until I could think how or when to reinstate it. Later on I noticed from the log...
View ArticleSuggested Reading: AI, SDG’s, Data Protection and more
Some links I thought worth reading the past few days World Bank data on the status of the global sustainable development goals, by the WB data team (whom I know due to my work for the WB’s open data...
View ArticleSuggested Reading: Imbecility, Replication Crisis, IoT and more
Some links I thought worth reading the past few days Initial circumstances mostly trump intrinsic capabilities. Basically the evolutionary space available. Delayed gratification is based on affluence...
View ArticleSuggested Reading: GDPR, PSI Directive, Q and more
Some links I thought worth reading the past few days A brief overview of how the GDPR and EU PSI-Directive interplay : The PSI directive and GDPR – European Data Portal Some discussion on how...
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Temperature Graph for Our House
Since shortly after we moved in we have a temperature and humidity sensor in our garden. This week’s heat wave is breaking records across Europe including here in the Netherlands. So I’ve kept an eye...
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Blind Spots in Phone Based Hotel Key System Reasoning
Read Everybody Hates the Key Card. Will Your Phone Replace It? (nytimes.com) Technology that allows hotel guests to use their phones as room keys is expanding, taking aim at those environmentally...
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Home Automation Principles
Liked a post by Aaron Parecki Over the past few weekends I've been overhauling my home automation systems. At the core, as I decide what to buy and how to configure it, there are three primary...
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After meeting Rob van Kranenburg (IoT Council, NGI) at the Edgeryders meetup of scifi authors and economists in Brussels last Monday, had a nice chat with him to catch up on Skype today. Looking...
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