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Most controversial IoT story: Huawei 5G equipment ban
Judy Curtis / SIPR's insight:
Here's a look at what made headlines in the IoT in 2019; the most important acquisitions, investments, research findings, and announcements.
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The Internet of Things continues its brisk and steady rise, and many trends that started in previous years will continue or even accelerate for the foreseeable future. However, a recent McKinsey study, "What separates leaders from laggards in the Internet of Things," found that only around one sixth of the world's largest companies adopting IoT are seeing any kind of significant return on investment.
Judy Curtis / SIPR's insight:
New trends and business models for the IoT are emerging, and the way we plan, envision, and discuss the IoT will likely change in 2019. More Human-IoT Interaction Sensor data is a core component of IoT technology, but most sensors in use today monitor machinery or tech infrastructure. Employees can be expected to interact more with IoT technology, according to a recent McKinsey study.
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"Connecting objects and devices through the Internet of Things (IoT) can help solve the greatest challenges of our time, from cutting emissions to feeding a growing population," believes Alicia Asín, CEO and co-founder of Spanish technology company Libelium which makes IoT hardware. Asín was the second-place winner of the 2018 EU Prize for Women Innovators.
Judy Curtis / SIPR's insight:
How do you think IoT is changing cities and society? ‘The IoT is creating a data culture by introducing the concept of measure, think, and then make a decision. If you’re the mayor of a city and decide to implement a congestion charge or restrict access to diesel vehicles but you cannot demonstrate the levels of pollution, citizens will think the decision came down to political or ideological reasons. But if you can back up the decision with data, then that’s working towards more transparency.’ - Alicia Asin, CEO & co-founder, Libelium
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Libelium Works with Other Organizations to Develop a Life-Saving IoT Application
Judy Curtis / SIPR's insight:
David Gascón of Libelium brings us one of the most exciting IoT stories out there about collecting data from inside a volcano. He discusses the process of designing and testing an application built for one of earth’s most volatile environments and offers his advice on choosing the right sensors for your IoT application.
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A top Spanish vineyard is using the Internet of Things to improve grape cultivation and save money.
Judy Curtis / SIPR's insight:
The project aims to obtain predictive behavior patterns in the vineyard relating to grape quality, production, biological cycles, potential pests, and plant diseases. The IoT technology has been provided by Libelium, a Zaragoza company created by Alicia Asín and David Gascón in 2006, which sells a hardware and software platform to "connect any sensor to any cloud using any wireless technology", including industrial protocols such as CAN bus.
Richard Platt's curator insight,
May 4, 2018 5:46 AM
"It was a necessity," says the vineyard's agronomist, Julio Prieto. "I make a number of in-situ measurements. Coupling them with data provided by stations and soil sensors can help us obtain crucial information to make early decisions for greater efficiency and lower production costs," he tells ZDNet. Working with remOT Technologies, a spin-off of the University of Zaragoza in northeast Spain specializing in agricultural measurement, Pago Aylés has embarked on an IoT project to "model the future", as Prieto says. The project aims to obtain predictive behavior patterns in the vineyard relating to grape quality, production, biological cycles, potential pests, and plant diseases. The IoT technology has been provided by Libelium, a Zaragoza company created by Alicia Asín and David Gascón in 2006, which sells a hardware and software platform to "connect any sensor to any cloud using any wireless technology", including industrial protocols such as CAN bus.
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Karen Tay, Singapore's Smart Nation director, was recently in Washington D.C. to run a workshop for the World Bank on how to develop “smart cities." She says: “'Smart cities' is honestly a buzzword... when I get invited to speak, most people expect me to start with cool tech like AR, VR, AI, modeling and simulation, blockchain and the like. The fact is that cities are complex ecosystems with very established ways of operating. If we want to disrupt them with technology in a way that benefits the masses (i.e. not just the upper middle class), we need dedicated work from the ground-up, coupled with political commitment." Karen Tay's five tips for smart city efforts come from conversations and projects with smart city leaders around the world.
Judy Curtis / SIPR's insight:
Building a smart city is ultimately about creating momentum throughout society to deploy tech for public good.
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New research advances techniques for finding and exploiting known vulnerabilities in IoT devices automatically.
Judy Curtis / SIPR's insight:
The threat of automated IoT vulnerability finders is a genuine concern. "Absolutely it is coming," says Anders Fogh, a malware analyst for the German security firm GData. "We are waiting for the vendors to realize that security is relevant. They need a dose of bitter medicine." Other researchers are beginning to work on large scale IoT firmware analysis and automatic n-day mining projects as well, acknowledging a future in which attackers can fully exploit IoT vulnerability.
Judy Curtis / SIPR's curator insight,
February 14, 2018 5:36 PM
The threat of automated IoT vulnerability finders is a genuine concern. "Absolutely it is coming," says Anders Fogh, a malware analyst for the German security firm GData. "We are waiting for the vendors to realize that security is relevant. They need a dose of bitter medicine." Other researchers are beginning to work on large scale IoT firmware analysis and automatic n-day mining projects as well, acknowledging a future in which attackers can fully exploit IoT vulnerability.
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Takeaways from a talk on IoT security at a New America event in D.C. include two-factor authentication, encryption methods, and more.
Judy Curtis / SIPR's insight:
Discussions about the Internet of Things (IoT) often focus on a “Security vs. Privacy” paradigm. However, last month author Susan Landau emphasized instead that discussions should focus on “Security vs. Security” at a New America event titled Listening In: Cybersecurity in an Insecure Age. In her same-titled book, Landau’s historical perspective, legislative knowledge, and cyberattack descriptions make a convincing case for the need to secure our data. She describes how security has matured slowly leading up to today’s strong-encryption found in corporate, government, and military environments. 1
Judy Curtis / SIPR's curator insight,
February 14, 2018 5:47 PM
Discussions about the Internet of Things (IoT) often focus on a “Security vs. Privacy” paradigm. However, last month author Susan Landau emphasized instead that discussions should focus on “Security vs. Security” at a New America event titled Listening In: Cybersecurity in an Insecure Age. In her same-titled book, Landau’s historical perspective, legislative knowledge, and cyberattack descriptions make a convincing case for the need to secure our data. She describes how security has matured slowly leading up to today’s strong-encryption found in corporate, government, and military environments.
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Transformer la ville en « Smart City » pour faciliter la vie quotidienne des habitants, réduire la facture énergétique et favoriser le bien vivre ensemble c’est l’objectif que se fixent désormai
Judy Curtis / SIPR's insight:
Cet ouvrage constitue un outil de réflexion méthodologique à destination des élus, cadres et agents des collectivités territoriales, mais également des autres parties prenantes (État, entreprises, associations, citoyens…).
This means: This book is a methodological reflection tool for elected officials, managers and agents of local authorities, but also other stakeholders (state, companies, associations, citizens ...). We suppose the citizen-initiative aspect would be covered in another volume.
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Santiago Martin Caravaca interview the Mayor of Wien, Budapest, Oslo, Medellin, Trieste, Ljubljana and the Deputy Mayor of Amsterdam. Let Smart Cities Talk!
Judy Curtis / SIPR's insight:
Are smart cities a laboratory for politics? Mayors and deputy mayors of seven important European regional capitals, all committed to smart cities, give voice to their (political) priorities on such initiatives:
- Citizens first, rather than technology first - Innovation - Importance of learning by doing - Quality of life - Social responsiveness - Make tech tools and information readily available to citizens And... so far there is no template, no "one-size-fits-all."
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The U.S. is continuing to become more suburban, with sprawling metro areas spreading out further. But the most dense places are tending to become denser.
Judy Curtis / SIPR's insight:
All of the largest East Coast and Midwest metro areas became more dense, including New York, Washington, Boston, Philadelphia and Chicago (though less so than Seattle). These places, five of the seven densest, were already relatively tightly packed to begin with. The other two densest metro areas, San Francisco and Los Angeles, suburbanized only slightly.
By contrast, none of the places where sprawl increased most between 2010 and 2016 — Austin, San Antonio, Houston and Oklahoma City — had been especially urban even in 2010. The metro areas that are becoming more dense include two, New York and Washington, that are home to the media outlets where much of the writing about cities appears. Furthermore, metro areas that are urbanizing have more than their fair share of urban planners, including Seattle, Minneapolis, Washington and Boston. Those who write about, advocate for and choose to live in cities really do see more urbanization around them. But their cities are the exceptions. Most large metro areas, including the fastest-growing ones, as well as America over all, are increasingly suburban.
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Libelium is calling for cities with severe levels of air pollution and extreme meteorological conditions to take part in a test of its new air quality measurement technology.
Judy Curtis / SIPR's insight:
Here's a solution to help urban air management: IoT technology manufacturer Libelium is offering to install for free its Air Quality Station air pollution analysis metrology devices in cities that meet its set of criteria.
The new Air Quality Station is based on machine learning algorithms and statistical data analysis. The device learns and improves its accuracy as it acquires data that is compared and analysed with those recorded by official reference stations.
“With this new platform, Libelium helps smart cities to add capillarity to their urban air measurement network,” said Alicia Asin, CEO of Libelium.
“Many cities have a single device with high metrological capacity that costs hundreds of thousands of euros so they can only measure pollution levels in a certain location. With IoT technology, more measurement points can be added with quality and precision devices that reduce the required investment to a tenth of the cost.”
Libelium reports it has tested the new technology at five sites with different weather conditions and different pollution levels to feed the artificial intelligence (AI) of the device and provide continuous improvement in the accuracy of the device.
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5 Key Industrial Connectivity trends on emerging architectures, components and protocols being deployed to create ind. data collectio
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The city will remain the centerpiece of economic growth in the 21st century. Here's how we're using smart city technology to optimize them even further.
Judy Curtis / SIPR's insight:
Smart city solutions will fall into six broad categories, transforming the urban landscape: 1. Infrastructure 2. Buildings 3. Utilities 4. Transport 5. Environment 6. Life
Guy Lagaeysse's curator insight,
January 18, 2019 9:14 AM
La population des villes est en constante augmentation (55 % de la population mondiale vit dans des villes).
Les villes sont amenées à devenir un moteur encore plus important de l'économie mondiale et de la richesse; Elles doivent se transformer pour améliorer la qualité, la performance et l'interactivité des ses services, réduire les coûts et la consommation de ressources et accroître les contacts entre les citoyens et le gouvernement.
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In September 2015, the FBI released an official warning to the public about the dangers of the Internet of Things (IoT) ㄧ Have our devices become any safer since?
Judy Curtis / SIPR's insight:
In September 2015, the FBI released an official warning to the public about the dangers of the Internet of Things (IoT) ㄧ Have our devices become any safer since?
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At Sensors Expo in San Jose, two panels of experts reflected on the current state of IoT adoption and provided advice on how to overcome common challenges.
Judy Curtis / SIPR's insight:
One challenge is that many companies deploying IoT PoCs give short shrift to security until they are focused on rolling it out to the production scale. Nevertheless, interest in IoT cybersecurity is building given a growing number of hacks with an IoT component. But addressing the problem isn’t easy. Like IoT itself, there are few one-size-fits-all solutions when it comes to IoT security.
Vezta & Co.'s curator insight,
September 30, 2018 4:00 PM
One challenge is that many companies deploying IoT PoCs give short shrift to security until they are focused on rolling it out to the production scale. Nevertheless, interest in IoT cybersecurity is building given a growing number of hacks with an IoT component. But addressing the problem isn’t easy. Like IoT itself, there are few one-size-fits-all solutions when it comes to IoT security.
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Judy Curtis / SIPR's insight:
So how does a management team decide what it wants from the IoT? For Stacey Higginbotham, writing in IEEE Spectrum, there are two paths here. The first is to start small with a project that can offer a short-term return on investment (ROI). In a factory, this could mean installing cameras and sensors on a manufacturing line to replace human spot-checkers. The second path is a bit more visionary: Build a platform or product that can change your entire business model. For example, in 2015 Emerson Climate Technologies launched a new connected product in its HVAC business. With US $100 worth of sensors per home, the HVAC installer and Emerson could guarantee a period of time that a customer’s heating or cooling system would operate before needing repairs.
Vezta & Co.'s curator insight,
August 30, 2018 10:46 AM
So how does a management team decide what it wants from the IoT? For Stacey Higginbotham, writing in IEEE Spectrum, there are two paths here. The first is to start small with a project that can offer a short-term return on investment (ROI). In a factory, this could mean installing cameras and sensors on a manufacturing line to replace human spot-checkers. The second path is a bit more visionary: Build a platform or product that can change your entire business model. For example, in 2015 Emerson Climate Technologies launched a new connected product in its HVAC business. With US $100 worth of sensors per home, the HVAC installer and Emerson could guarantee a period of time that a customer’s heating or cooling system would operate before needing repairs.
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"It may be time for the U.S. government to step in to coordinate security standards across all the players that participate in creating the internet of things, Frost & Sullivan says."
Judy Curtis / SIPR's insight:
It may be time for the U.S. government to step in to coordinate security standards across all the players that participate in creating the internet of things, Frost & Sullivan says...
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Turning Palma de Mallorca into a smart tourist destination by improving the quality of its environment is the goal of the Balearic Harbors Authority project implemented by Libelium and Mallorcawifi.com. A wide network of Waspmote Plug & Sense Smart Cities sensors is deployed all around the Mallorcan harbor to measure the impact of the arrival of ships and cruise liners, and other port activity.
Judy Curtis / SIPR's insight:
The Smart Cities harbor project deployed in the city of Palma measures two basic environmental parameters that most affect citizens’ health: air quality and noise. The project is placing 27 Waspmote Plug & Sense! Smart Environment PRO in various locations around Palma’s harbor, and five Waspmote Plug & Sense! Smart Cities devices.
These devices are set to collect data provided by 81 sensors measuring carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide, ozone, noise, temperature, humidity, air pressure, wind, and rainfall, among other factors.
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IoT gateways were used as part of a smart city project in the Dordrecht. Sensors were introduced to monitor pedestrians, cyclists & vehicles.
Judy Curtis / SIPR's insight:
For a city with no track record of data-based planning, insights into rush hours, recession periods and movement trends have transformed the ability of public authorities to make smarter urban planning decisions. Passive Wi-Fi monitoring systems such as the Meshlium IoT Gateways could also provide useful information regarding footfall to local businesses.
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it turns out that some existing infrastructure could act as a sensor already–no new tech needed.
Judy Curtis / SIPR's insight:
Making cities smart doesn’t necessarily mean embedding sensors and cameras everywhere, an expensive and time-consuming endeavor. It turns out that some existing infrastructure – such as cables and cell phone towers - could act as a sensor already, with no new tech needed.
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Anthony Barrs and Baiyu Chen’s Hyperlane system proposes clusters of self-driving cars zipping past local traffic at 100mph, controlled by a central computer
Judy Curtis / SIPR's insight:
Hyperlane works a lot like existing dedicated commuter lanes, only instead of paying extra to use higher-speed, lower-congestion lanes in a human-driven vehicle, the separate lanes are only for autonomous vehicles. After entering an acceleration lane, Hyperlane’s central computer takes over the car’s functions and finds a slot for it in the already fast-moving traffic in the dedicated lanes. Vehicles would travel at speeds up to 120mph, and that the centralized computer control – which would be in constant communication with each vehicle using emerging 5G technology – would allow for a more tightly-packed traffic pattern.
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Dublin has a range of cutting-edge technology projects underway, but the one that Smart City Program Manager Jamie Cudden is particularly excited about is the Academy of the Near Future.
The education and skills programme, a collaboration between CONNECT at Trinity College Dublin, Dublin City Council and the Smart Docklands testbed, aims to bring a broader range of people into the conversation about new technologies through interactive workshops, hands-on activities and online resources.
“There’s all this technology and it’s moving so fast, but we need to educate people in the public sector and citizens about the potential of these technologies, what the risks are and how we can make the most of new tools,” Cudden says.
While there are a growing number of academic courses about smart cities and data, Cudden saw a gap for practical sessions based on real-life implementations and experience. Through the Academy, local authority staff and secondary school students get the chance to see sensors in action, understand how they work and prototype their own solutions.