Internet of Things

Life-Saving from Race-Winning IoT Technology

John Riley — Thu, 02 May 2013 11:04:14 GMT

What does Formula 1 racing and a children's hospital have in common?The answer, set out in a recent UK Parliamentary seminar, is the use of Internet of Things technology to protect lives of both racing car drivers and dangerously ill...

Adopting IPv6 is a Corporate Business Issue

John Riley — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 01:24:19 GMT

Along with many groups Internet pioneer Vint Cerf has persistently warned of the imminent exhaustion of IPv4 Internet addresses (see clips from 2010, 2011 and 2012), to largely frustrating effect. The time for warnings is over. The primary supply of...

User Data Ownership & Strong Security Demanded for Smart Home Metering

John Riley — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 10:38:40 GMT

Today marks the launch of a report containing key policy proposals for any UK deployment of smart energy metering.The title is evocative: “Power to the People! Smarter Metering and the Power to Choose”. This 52-page detailed report stresses the...

Open Mindsets Link 3D Printing & Internet of Things

John Riley — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 09:27:13 GMT

In 2009 expiring 3D printing extrusive technology patents opened up a tsunami of creativity as the open source community swept in to that space. RepRap, a British-led open source initiative, liberated that area creating open blue-print, self-replicating standard printers which...

Breaking down the Internet of Silos

John Riley — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 09:24:45 GMT

We face three major challenges when it comes to accelerating the growth and the potential of the Internet of Things, according to Gary Atkinson, Director of Emerging Technologies at chip designer ARM.They are:Simplifying connectivityGetting security rightEnabling accelerated applications developmentGary ought...

Compulsory Chip Implants in Dogs: the Internet of Things Dimension

John Riley — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 18:57:00 GMT

The Internet of Things inched subliminally a bit closer towards the public psyche when UK Environment Minister Owen Paterson announced on Wednesday that all dogs in England will need to be micro-chipped by April 2016. In itself that's no big...

Crowd Funding: gains whether you win or lose

John Riley — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 14:31:47 GMT

Take a look at the Good Night Lamp project currently looking for funding on Kickstarter. It is on a bold and ambitious scale and illustrates new directions in IoT crowd-funding. Unlike many Internet of Things related projects seeking funding, which...

Vibrancy of London IoT Meetups

John Riley — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 00:24:15 GMT

I particularly enjoy going to the Internet of Things Meetups in London's Tech City/Silicon Roundabout. There's much more to them than just the vibrancy of entrepreneurial young people beavering and buzzing with ideas. IT developers, designers, architects, artists, electronics engineers,...

Vibrancy of Internet of Things Meetups

John Riley — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 00:05:39 GMT

I particularly enjoy going to the Internet of Things Meetups in London's Tech City/Silicon Roundabout There's much more than just the vibrancy of entrepreneurial young people beavering and buzzing with ideas. What strikes me is the sheer variety of backgrounds...

Open Data Institute Bodes Well for Internet of Things

John Riley — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 00:46:51 GMT

The formal launch of the London-based Open Data Institute this week marks an important step forward in preparing for the Internet of Things. The purpose of the £10m government-primed organisation, the brainchild of Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Southampton University's...

Bottom-Up IoT Innovation Thriving

John Riley — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 16:14:21 GMT

I experienced some of the vitality, sophistication and breadth of activity in open hardware and associated software and comms this week at the first Cambridge Internet of Things Practitioners Night meetup. That demonstrated how a rapid expansion of IoT...

How Boards Should Prepare for IoT Security

John Riley — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 03:08:28 GMT

The latest Forrester Report on IoT security, called “Prepare Your Security Organisation for the Internet of Things: Why the Next Internet Revolution is Much More Alarming than the Last”, is significant on two counts. Firstly it asserts that we really...

Core Messages on IoT Security for the Board

John Riley — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 03:06:09 GMT

Engineer at the Top

John Riley — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 10:57:28 GMT

In today's China regime change announcements an engineer replaces an engineer at the pinnacle of China's leadership. That bodes well for the progression of China's 2011-2015 Five Year Plan for the Internet of Things. The new Communist Party leader is...

IoT: a hub for social change

John Riley — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 00:22:08 GMT

Expect the Internet of Things to play a positive force in easing the impact of the hugely disruptive societal changes we can expect to undergo this century. With its billions of interacting, smart, programmable, locatable, interconnecting, sensing and actuator...

IoT Takes Off Bottom-Up

John Riley — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 12:10:22 GMT

To see the power of the the Internet of Things, with its capability of linking high quality sensors cheaply and interactively, you don't have to wait for the big supplier companies and traditional business to show the way forward....

The Comic Side of IoT

John Riley — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 08:33:15 GMT

I never thought I'd see the EU fund a comic strip book to explain a brand new technology and its applications to Euro-citizens - but there is one and it was relaunched this summer. Called “Inspiring the Internet of...

A Bottom-Up Revolution?

John Riley — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 23:57:52 GMT

A Step Change is A-Coming

John Riley — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 15:38:44 GMT

“Open your eyes - there's a new world a comin'; Open your eyes, there's a new world today.” These lyrics are from the 1970 Paul Kanter/Jefferson Starship album “Blows Against the Empire”, heralding widespread societal recalibration developing from the...

Keep It Simple

John Riley — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 09:16:02 GMT

In the last week or so I've attended activities and events with several Internet of Things communities. They were a bit disparate, but all united on the need for much more intercommunication everywhere. With each group of people you talk...

Chinese Internet of Things initiative: Set up to succeed

John Riley — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 01:14:41 GMT

Western governments and that of the UK in particular, could learn much from China's approach to the Internet of Things. But there's just too much disdain about engineering right now. Engineering and technology are not the best routes to the...

China: Why Internet of Things awareness should be on your corporate due diligence agenda

John Riley — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 10:32:45 GMT

I've started this blog on the Internet of Things for one main reason. It's down to my surprise and concern about the lack of real urgency and the low level of awareness I see around me among corporate leaders and...

The Internet of Things revolution: wake-up call for corporates and politicians

John Riley — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 10:50:09 GMT

Why are today's senior - and not so senior - decision takers, whether business leaders or politicians, so seemingly unaware of the fast approaching third revolution in Internet access - the Internet of Things? It is probably because the Internet...

The Realities of Government IT for Innovators

John Riley — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 12:00:00 GMT

A wide and deep ranging House of Commons Public Administration Select Committee Report published today is required reading for all innovative entrepreneurs, small and medium sized companies and others planning to work with government.The Report, entitled: 'Government and IT: “a...

The Realities of Government IT for Innovators

John Riley — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 12:00:00 GMT