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WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation
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Farid Mheir's insight:
Here's something to consider more and more: smart furniture. With internet of things, this is a trend that may pick up steam in the coming years. For now, still nice prototyping but no mass production AFAIK. 
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Amazon on Tuesday announced the arrival of devices that order their own refills from the online retailer.
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Amazon introduce a small Internet connected device they called "dash" a few years ago to simplify replenishment of consumables such as laundry detergent via the push of a button. Now they have licensed their technology to manufacturers such as GE to embed the device right into their products. Welcome to the new world of shopping at home! Have you planned to introduce Internet connected devices and gadgets into your products or offer your products via those devices? Have you made such innovations part of your strategic plan? What are you waiting for?... Read the following for more insights on how Amazon dash plans to revolutionize the way we consume at home: http://www.scoop.it/t/digital-transformation-of-businesses?q=dash
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We mapped the 9 categories driving the future of the Internet of Things. IoT startups are targeting the Industrial Internet of Things and major spaces like healthcare.
Farid Mheir's insight:
Interested in internet of things: here's a review of 100 companies laying this field. My prediction: 700 by year end 2016 and 3000 by year end 2017. This field is going to explode.
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Netflix is the biggest bandwidth hog, making up more than 37% of all downstream traffic during peak hours. Google's YouTube is a distant second, with about...
Farid Mheir's insight:
Video now accounts for more than half of Internet traffic. This is inline with other bandwidth information I have seen. WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT Internet used to be about browsing websites and chatting with friends on Facebook. Today it is all about viewing video which means telcos should really be scarred about cord cutters - people moving away from cable or satellite TV. In the future, I assume the proportion of bandwidth will continue to increase. With billions of internet-connected devices showing up in the next 10 years, will IoT become the bandwidth hog then?
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Want to spy on bats or whales? Cochlear implants could enhance hearing beyond the human hearing range. Did you ever want to see like Superman or Star Trek’s Lieutenant Geordi La Forge? The Fraunhofer Institute might just be able to fulfill such fantasies since they are developing an eye equivalent which can distinguish between light …
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More reading on transhumanism.
Ruth Robinson's curator insight,
December 10, 2015 12:00 AM
I wish not to be, but all the tech that's going on and experimenting can't tell!
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Early this year the staff at Epicenter, a Stockholm based high-tech company, were given a choice; they could either be issued a standard employee ID card for access to the building and office equipment, or they could be injected with a tiny radio frequency identification device, placed just under the skin of their hand – otherwise known as a subcutaneous implant. Surprisingly, a number chose the chip, on the promise that with a wave of their hand they would be able to access the building, open doors, operate photocopiers and even pay for lunch in the company cafeteria. No ID cards to forget at home or passwords to remember. In fact, the Epicenter case is hardly the first experiment of its kind. Going back as far as 2004, Barcelona nightclub owner Conrad Chase offered RFID chipping to his VIP clients enabling access to special lounges and payment capability. Via André Bélanger, Farid Mheir
Farid Mheir's insight:
I knew they did this for dogs but never thought they did it for humans. But come to think of it, makes perfect sense. Or it will become the biggest invasion of privacy ever.
Farid Mheir's curator insight,
November 11, 2015 7:50 PM
I knew they did this for dogs but never thought they did it for humans. But come to think of it, makes perfect sense. Or it will become the biggest invasion of privacy ever. Great insight from André! 
Luigi Cappel's comment,
November 21, 2015 2:25 PM
For me it would depend on what part of the world I live in. In New Zealand I would have no problem wearing a chip that I could use for ID for building access, customs, instead of passwords or finger scanners. Being a law abiding citizen in a relatively corruption free country, I'd be more than happy, providing as per the law, I knew how any information about me was being used and could revoke access where it was abused. If I was living in other countries, which may remain nameless, I would steer well clear, because being innocent and law abiding doesn't mean that you are safe.
Farid Mheir's comment,
November 21, 2015 5:33 PM
@Russell R. Roberts, Jr. @Luigi Cappel both of you thank you for insightful comments and reshare... as always!
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As the world enters the Third Industrial Revolution, increased connectivity between businesses and prosumers, powered by clean and renewable energies, will change the global economy. Here's how we can make that happen.
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A good starter post on IoT.
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Early this year the staff at Epicenter, a Stockholm based high-tech company, were given a choice; they could either be issued a standard employee ID card for access to the building and office equipment, or they could be injected with a tiny radio frequency identification device, placed just under the skin of their hand – otherwise known as a subcutaneous implant. Surprisingly, a number chose the chip, on the promise that with a wave of their hand they would be able to access the building, open doors, operate photocopiers and even pay for lunch in the company cafeteria. No ID cards to forget at home or passwords to remember. In fact, the Epicenter case is hardly the first experiment of its kind. Going back as far as 2004, Barcelona nightclub owner Conrad Chase offered RFID chipping to his VIP clients enabling access to special lounges and payment capability. Via André Bélanger
Farid Mheir's insight:
I knew they did this for dogs but never thought they did it for humans. But come to think of it, makes perfect sense. Or it will become the biggest invasion of privacy ever. Great insight from André!
Luigi Cappel's comment,
November 21, 2015 2:25 PM
For me it would depend on what part of the world I live in. In New Zealand I would have no problem wearing a chip that I could use for ID for building access, customs, instead of passwords or finger scanners. Being a law abiding citizen in a relatively corruption free country, I'd be more than happy, providing as per the law, I knew how any information about me was being used and could revoke access where it was abused. If I was living in other countries, which may remain nameless, I would steer well clear, because being innocent and law abiding doesn't mean that you are safe.
Farid Mheir's comment,
November 21, 2015 5:33 PM
@Russell R. Roberts, Jr. @Luigi Cappel both of you thank you for insightful comments and reshare... as always!
Farid Mheir's curator insight,
December 9, 2016 3:22 PM
I knew they did this for dogs but never thought they did it for humans. But come to think of it, makes perfect sense. Or it will become the biggest invasion of privacy ever.
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COPENHAGEN -- The Digital Age has brought with it a new way of thinking about manufacturing and operations, and the Internet of Things, which connects devices to the Web and to each other, will change the way we communicate and do business.
Farid Mheir's insight:
Industrial production has been slower to embrace digital transformation. This appears to be about to change with the arrival of internet connected sensors - the internet of things. Couple that with 3D printers, virtual reality, and robots, it will create new opportunities for cost reductions and operational improvements when the data captured by all these IoT will be analyzed in real-time by intelligent algorithms using Big Data analysis and machine learning tools and solutions. Many expect an industrial revolution to come out of these new technologies.
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Hyundai Heavy Industries and Accenture are designing a ‘connected smart ship’ that will enable ship owners to better manage their fleets.
Farid Mheir's insight:
All industries are impacted by digital transformation. Case in point: new ships from Hyundai will come with sensors and communication but also with on-shore digital services to help them be more efficient. With the advent of self-driving cars we can also of course expect self-driving ships.
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This next step in the gameification of fitness already has some people hooked—but some worry it could have some unintended negative effects on others. That’s because it’s not just about collecting tech specs. It’s about competition—in public.
Farid Mheir's insight:
Gyms are changing with the introduction of technology that let's gymgoers - here bikers using the Flywheel solutions - see how they do and compare themselves to others. WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT Looks like we have just started to scratch the surface of what technology can do for humans and their wellness. To date, most digital technologies have been applied to office work - thinks MS office - or personal communications - think Facebook. More recent technologies that include sensors - think Apple watch - connected to the Internet are changing the game. Not only do these new techs provide you with bio-feedback - instant heart rate, number of steps, watts, etc. - they also mash it up with the data from thousands of others. And the Internet has shown the power and the transformation that can come when you interconnect seamlessly millions and billions of people.
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Video from Springboard The other day I was catching up with neighborhood news, and saw this article about "people counters" in San Francisco's tourist district. These are cameras watching the sidew...
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A description of possible applications of smart sensors. WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT This is a great example of the difference between data and information. As we drown into raw data from sensors of all kind, we will see more and more smart devices that analyze the data and report only the useful information.
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My talk at Planningness 2013. The worlds of hardware and software are colliding: from art to intelligent robots, our interactions with the digital world are mo…
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A great visual review of everywhere computers touch our lives.
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We need similar kinds of principles laid down for the IoT. One idea, from technologist Limor Freid, is that we create a minimal bill of rights. Something that says open is better than closed, ensuring portability between devices. We must ensure that consumers, not companies, own the data collected by devices and that any devices that collect public data (such as traffic flows or crowd sizes) share that data in the public realm. Users should have the right to keep their data private, and be able to delete or back up data collected by the devices they own. We also need to ensure that individuals are compensated fairly for the information they create, rather than allowing the value to be skimmed off by what Jaron Lanier calls “siren servers,” which concentrate wealth in the hands of the few who control the data centers.
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The article talks of a bill of rights for internet of things, but also provides examples of 35 years wifi solution running on a AAA battery and a LED equipped umbrella.
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Praetorian tracking all IoT devices in Austin, Texas running on ZigBee protocol, similar to the Shodan scanner.
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A project has been devised to map all internet of things devices in the Austin Texas area, and identify vulnerabilities. Cool demonstrations of what you can do with a drone and some technology skills. See the full map here: https://www.praetorian.com/iotmap/ WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT? There will be 9B IoT devices soon and many more in the future. Great opportunities but it needs to be safe and private.
Tracy Harding's comment,
September 1, 2015 9:19 AM
You need to work on formatting of your replies. This is one giant sentence. Remember the requirements. You need a 2-3 sentence summary, at least 1 sentence of IR implications and 1 sentence about your thoughts.
Farid Mheir's comment,
September 1, 2015 9:23 AM
@Tracy Harding: not sure I understand your comment re: formatting. Can you be more specific and email me a screengrab? thank you!
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The "Internet of things" (IoT) is becoming an increasingly growing topic of conversation both in the workplace and outside of it. It's a concept that not only has the potential to impact how we live but also how we work. But what exactly is the "Internet of things" and what [...]
Fernando Martinez Romero's curator insight,
June 25, 2015 12:03 AM
Recurrentemente se habla del Internet de las Cosas, sin embargo muchas veces las personas arman en sus cabezas ideas que viajan por el espectro de la ciencia ficción, sin embargo, poco dan ese salto a conocer un poco más de aquello, lo mejor es que cuando se hace, te enteras, que el Internet de las cosas es más común y mas cotidiano de lo que se espera y que su funcionalidad no es ficción y esta al alcance de nuestras manos. Bienvenido Internet de las cosas y bienvenido el futuro de la información a nuestro alcance.
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From
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People have been predicting wearables would be the next big thing for about as long as I've been involved in technology, but this time they might be right.
Farid Mheir's insight:
Been waiting for this to emerge for a while given the intensity of interest around wearables and internet of things. WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT FOR DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION OF BUSINESS? In the wearable space, I guess what you want to wear are the sensors, not the processing gear. So being able to create cheap custom sensors allows businesses to gather more information about the environment their products and people go through, then analyze it remotely to make decisions. This is a possible component towards that goal.
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The Internet of Things is driving innovation in customer experience and creating new opportunities for retailer strategy.
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In this report Accenture presents 2 diagrams that pull together various technologies in the store and in the home to show where IoT can be deployed and why. It remains, at this time, futuristic but early adopters should take notice.
Farid Mheir's comment,
June 2, 2015 11:36 AM
thank you @Volkmar Langer @Tom Pick @Jean-Claude CARO. Please also feel free to recommend my topic if you fell like it!
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Thanks, A very good topic Farid
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Cambridge Consultants, a product development group based in the U.K., is showing off a connected shopping cart that can tell a retailer where you are in a store within three feet. The smart carts are equipped with Bluetooth radios and sensors to track the cart’s location so store owners can offer promotions and eliminate checkout…
Farid Mheir's insight:
Not everyone has a mobile phone when they shop groceries but everyone pushes a cart. So having a connected cart - especially if it costs only 7.60$ to retrofit - makes perfect sense, no?
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1998-2006. Documents. Web 1.0 Il aura fallu 8 ans à Google pour parvenir à indexer tous les documents disponibles. Oh je vous vois venir, oui, vous avez raison, Google n'indexe pas "tous" les documents disponibles. Probablement moins de 5% des.. Olivier Ertzscheid, 03/03/2015 . Via Pierre Tran
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March 4, 2015 3:56 PM
Du Web 1.0 au Web généticiel, une mise en perspective vertigineuse de l'évolution d'internet.
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Mary Meeker can synthesize trends, pinpoint interesting numbers and research, and deliver hundreds of slides like nobody's business.
Farid Mheir's insight:
As Mary Meeker says in her intro, this presentation probably violates all rules that communication experts drill into our heads, yet it is very effective because 1- the slides are made available for us to review after 2- we can pause and rewind 3- she stresses what's important: the rest we get by looking at the slides Love it.
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June 6, 2014 11:03 AM
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![THE INTERNET OF EVERYTHING: 2014 [SLIDE DECK] | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it](https://img.scoop.it/Hiv4SgnxLxi9WRpioBVCh3kes5yE2Br8B0LnubnjJ88=)
A huge array of devices will soon be connected to the Internet.
Farid Mheir's insight:
A good overview of all the connected devices that we have now and what the future may bring. Unfortunately, focus is on consumer devices. I would have liked to find a similar study for business-related devices. Do you know any?
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Despite their diversity, Gartner believes that all current examples can be simply categorized into four basic usage scenarios, each of which presents clear business opportunities for end-user organizations. Manage — Looking at the Status of the Asset to Improve Utilization
This is a specific business model that is about the monetization of a physical asset by accurately measuring usage. It enables a (potentially very expensive) capital asset to be used as the basis for a usage-based service. This brings business opportunities to replace capital expenditure with operating expenditure, more-accurate plotting of product life cycle and more-effective preventive maintenance. An example is monitoring engine hours, actual load, fuel usage and so on of a piece of equipment to bill usage against actual wear and tear. By combining this information with location, speed and time information, the enterprise can accurately assess additional charges to reflect the risk. This could apply to a "pay as you drive" vehicle insurance service, a clear example of the application of this use case to physical objects not actually owned by the enterprise itself.
This model builds on the well-established realm of "operational technology," which is technology used to manage the equipment and processes inside manufacturing plants. Operational technology is increasingly moving away from the proprietary and isolated architectures of the past to exploit more mainstream technology, software and architectures and, in doing so, coming in some cases under the CIO's and the IT department's purview. Simple examples to control a valve, but in a more complex example, the data from thousands of sensors might combine weather and atmospheric conditions with water flow, pressure and depth information to manage entire water supply or irrigation systems. It will reduce the need to physically visit the remote device, and avoid hazardous environmental conditions around the device.
A physical supply chain ends when a product or asset is shipped. However, when that asset is connected, a digital supply chain continues to exist in which digital services and products can be delivered to that asset. In effect, the physical asset is extended with digital services. Simple examples might be automatic (perhaps subscription-based) downloads of firmware to a device to provide new capabilities or rectify newly identified faults. Owners of a connected automobile may download the ability to upgrade or extend the driving mode of the car. More-complex examples might be the provision of advisory information (such as imminent part failure, and excessive wear or overheating of a device) to avoid the costs of failure through preventive action. Media content is a digital product that could be sent to any connected asset, such as streaming movies to a train seat.
Farid Mheir's insight:
A very elegant way to present what can be done with IoT with executives: measure, monetize, operate or extend.
Michael Allenberg's curator insight,
April 5, 2014 11:11 AM
A little primer to get you all thinking...
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A huge array of devices will soon be connected to the Internet.
Farid Mheir's insight:
All the stats you may want to know regarding the Internet of Things. Limited to the consumer market: not much in there for the business, and nothing regarding manufacturing and other industries and segments that will surely be impacted by IoT.
René Breyel's curator insight,
March 4, 2014 11:15 AM
Toutes les statistiques sur ce marché en pleine explosion... Il est intéressant de voir que le premier Bénéfice perçu de l'IoT est l'augmentation de l'efficacité opérationnelle (46%). À croire que toutes ces choses que l'on connecte à Internet vont véritablement nous aider dans la vie de tous les jours !... Bien entendu, une croissance démesurée de ce marché provient encore de l'Asie (à 51%). |
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This website proposes use cases for beacons, from restaurant push notifications, parking meter interaction and connected devices. Other cookbooks are also presented here:
http://sco.lt/7VHCsb
Google announced "the physical web" project months ago as an open source project. Checkout the pages with tons of examples and more info about how to build them.
Google also recently has announced it will support it natively in Android Chrome, making discovery of beacons much easier as it won't require any new app to be installed - assuming Chrome is on every device.
http://blog.chromium.org/2016/02/the-physical-web-expands-to-chrome-for_10.html
With the rise of IoT, we can expect more of these in the future. However given the lukewarm reception of QR codes or Apple iBeacons, we can question their real-world adoption rate - even though they are builtin to millions of iPhone and iPad iOS devices the concept has not caught on it seems http://sco.lt/97shYP
Yet there is a true need for physical devices to connect with our mobile devices so I expect new solutions to be proposed, with one catching on at some point in time.