The Internet of Things is developing and buzzing all around us. Throughout the week we come across innovative projects, brilliant articles and posts that support and feature the innovators and companies that make our business possible. Here’s our list of favorites from this week’s journey on the Web.
Do you have a link to share? Please tell us in the comments below or Tweet us, @XBeeWireless — we would love to share your findings too. You can also follow all of the commentary and discussion with the hashtag #FridayFavorites.
Last week, we took part in the Data Sensing Lab at O’Reilly Strata Conference. We even hung out with the Data Sensing Lab team live from Santa Clara where the conference hall had been equipped with XBees and a wireless sensor network.
Here’s where you can find more information and updates from the Sense Lab team:
The Internet of Things is developing and buzzing all around us. Throughout the week we come across innovative projects, brilliant articles and posts that support and feature the innovators and companies that make our business possible. Here’s our list of favorites from this week’s journey on the Web.
Do you have a link to share? Please tell us in the comments below or Tweet us, @XBeeWireless — we would love to share your findings too. You can also follow all of the commentary and discussion with the hashtag #FridayFavorites.
The Internet of Things is developing and buzzing all around us. Throughout the week we come across innovative projects, brilliant articles and posts that support and feature the innovators and companies that make our business possible. Here’s our list of favorites from this week’s journey on the Web.
Do you have a link to share? Please tell us in the comments below or Tweet us, @XBeeWireless — we would love to share your findings too. You can also follow all of the commentary and discussion with the hashtag #FridayFavorites.
The Internet of Things is developing and buzzing all around us. Throughout the week we come across innovative projects, brilliant articles and posts that support and feature the innovators and companies that make our business possible. Here’s our list of favorites from this week’s journey on the Web.
Do you have a link to share? Please tell us in the comments below or Tweet us, @XBeeWireless — we would love to share your findings too. You can also follow all of the commentary and discussion with the hashtag #FridayFavorites.
Black Friday is only a couple of days away. With all of the talk about shopping, we couldn’t help but think of the Internet of Things and its impact on retail experiences. Here are 5 ways your shopping experience could or may have already changed as the Internet of Things evolves.
On Demand Information
One of our favorite XBee projects, the TeamLab Hanger, demonstrates how the Internet of Things can offer an on demand information to shoppers while they’re making purchase decisions. This interactive hanger is used as a platform for the fashion industry. As a customer picks up a piece from the clothing rack, a television screen displays the piece on a runway providing a visual experience and options for how the piece can be worn.
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) & QR Codes
RFID technology allows automatic identification of objects with the help of a small electronic chip. The data stored on a RFID tag can be read by wireless devices. Retailers can use these tags to increase inventory accuracy and better meet customer expectations. While RFIDs are helpful to manufacturers, QR codes can be helpful to buyers. There are many mobile apps, like Consmr, which allow consumers to get inside information on products that isn’t readily available by examining the product on the shelf.
Products and Shelves that Care for Themselves
The Internet of Things can help manufacturers and store owners optimize efficiency by receiving automatic alerts when products need serviced or shelves need stocked. Anything from a vending machine jam to an empty endcap– devices can communicate when human action is needed.
Store Environment
Sensors can detect the store’s environment and affect it accordingly. This can help staff ensure that you’re getting the intended and usually carefully crafted experience. It can also give stakeholders real-time information on the store’s condition at any given point in time. Sensors can communicate and control the physical environment such as light, sound and temperature– they can even count people in the store to analyze foot traffic.
Consistent Experience
Data from machines paired with sales data can help businesses ensure a quality experience across multiple locations. As a simple example, take fast food. When visiting a fast food restaurant, we rely on a consistent experience. If the corporate division of a fast food franchise can see when a location needs to make a change based on local machine data, stakeholders have more control on quality and consistency without being physically present at store roof-tops.
Which technologies will prevail and reshape our retail experiences? Only time, and you, will tell. As Marc Weiser said, “The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it.” The next time you’re in a store, maybe in the early hours of the morning this Friday, ask yourself if the Internet of Things has changed your shopping experience without you noticing.
Do you know of a great Internet of Things innovation you’d like us to talk about? Let us know in the comments section below or on Twitter.
The Internet of Things is developing and buzzing all around us. Throughout the week we come across innovative projects, brilliant articles and posts that support and feature the innovators and companies that make our business possible. Here’s our list of favorites from this week’s journey on the Web.
Do you have a link to share? Please tell us in the comments below or Tweet us, @XBeeWireless — we would love to share your findings too. You can also follow all of the commentary and discussion with the hashtag #FridayFavorites.
While we saw Hurricane Sandy live up to her expectations as an incredible force of nature, we also observed the incredible amount of data being tracked on the tropical storm by companies, entrepreneurs and hackers. Here are 5 examples of how real-time data allowed the world to keep an eye on the storm like never before.
Cape Cod is Tweeting, Thanks to the Internet of Things on MIT Technology Review
“Using an ultrasonic level sensor to bounce sound waves off the sea surface in order to determine its height, an XBee radio to send that data to a receiver on shore, and most importantly, an ioBridge IO-204 to relay that information to servers in the cloud, Cape Cod resident and hobbyist Robert Mawrey is able to broadcast to his entire community near real-time data on actual sea level.”
Tracking the data storm around Hurricane Sandy on O’Reilly’s Strata
“Just over fourteen months ago, social, mapping and mobile data told the story of Hurricane Irene. As a larger, more unusual late October storm churns its way up the East Coast, the people in its path are once again acting as sensors and media, creating crisis data as this ‘Frankenstorm’ moves over them.”
Just one of the 5 incredible data visualization maps in this post– Google Crisis Map for Hurricane Sandy.
As Sandy strikes, another big data opportunity emerges on Gigaom
“Sandy is certainly living up to its promise as a destructive force, but it’s also serving as a teaching tool for companies whose business is big data. They’re releasing new dashboards, products and case studies demonstrating how data analysis before can save lives and money later.”
Hurricane Sandy and the Big Data of Disaster Prediction on The SiliconANGLE
“Only recently, Big Data outfits went to work to determine how to best direct emergency responders and inform evacuees during Hurricane Isaac; computer scientists at Rice University set up a model that would assist with supercomputers and Big Data and it went to helping New Orleans prepare. Only months earlier the NSF put a push in to add more Big Data cyberinfrastructure to Federal and local sciences for predicting, preparing, and modeling hurricane disaster events.”
Red is pressure, blue is humidity and green is temperature.
Do you know of a great example of the Internet of Things and big data tracking Hurricane Sandy? Let us know in the comments section below or on Twitter. We’d love to share your findings too!
In honor of NYC Data Week, we bring you five posts that explore just some of the many interesting ways that data is being used. Saving lives, creating more efficient businesses and helping us learn more about ourselves– data is helping us improve our world.
We’ll be exhibiting the power of data this week as we host the Data Sensing Lab for O’Reilly’s Strata Conference and NYC Data Week.
Five generations of sensor mote for the Data Sensing Lab.
We’re ready to give attendees a taste of their lives in a more measured and quantified world! Data collected through the Data Sensing Lab will be analyzed in real time and the results will be presented in the keynote sessions during the O’Reilly Strata Conference.
