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The Internet of Things and the Information Specialist
Dr. Louis CoetzeeInternet of Things Engineering GroupCSIR Meraka Institute
7 June 2012
New Reality: A Changing World
• Becoming more decision-driven• Decisions are becoming more complex• Increasingly integrating for decisions via the
Internet
– Physical– Digital
• Everything will be connected to everything else:– Any place, any time, any thing, any one,
any network, any service
*Image from http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/127647-the-internet-of-things-and-smart-cities-will-an-ibm-computer-be-your-next-mayorOr http://epthinking.blogspot.com/2011/09/on-internet-of-things-iot.html
Decisions are Related To Assets, Resources, Environment
• Assets– Where is my vehicle?
• Resources– How much energy am I using?
• Environment
– How pure is my air?
Internet of Things as an Enabler for Complex Decisions in an Integrated World
• Instrumented• Interconnected• Integrated
• Intelligent
Provide the right information, in the right granularity and the right condition at the right time anywhere in the network at an appropriate price*
* Source: Architecting the Internet of Things
Images from:
http://www.learning-mind.com/interesting-facts-about-human-memory/ http://www.electronic-replicant.com/2010/02/desktop-friday-thinker/
http://homoartificialis.wordpress.com/category/nanotechnology/
http://popsci.typepad.com/popsci/2007/09/rfid-implants-m.html
http://www.weathershop.co.uk/shop/replacement-temp-sensor-thr228n-sensor
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Internet of Things and a Changing World
• Internet of Things well suited to help in decision-making in an integrated real-world context: Creating new value!– Sense & Act– Heterogeneous
– Scale (Many-to-Many)– Persisted memory– Process/Sense-making
Reality:
Internet is expandingPhysical and Digital Integration
Internet is expandingPhysical and Digital Integration
Type of Applications
Type of Applications
Real World Application Instantiations
• Built Environment– Smart Cities/Homes– Enhanced service delivery
– e-tolling• Retail
– RFID improving logistics value chain• Natural Environment
– Water and Carbon pollution monitoring
Opportunities and Challenges
• Context– Governance– Policy
– Privacy– Trust– Security– Business models– Societal & Ethical views
Opportunities and Challenges
• Technology– Commercial off the Shelf
(COTS)– Interoperability
– Heterogeneity– Standards– Scale– Identity
Opportunities and Challenges
• Applications– Scale– Deluge of data
• Structured and Unstructured
• Multiple sources of data– Meta-data– Trust & Security– Robustness
– Identity
Implication for the Information Specialist
• Deluge of data & information– How to make sense of it all?– The role of meta-data & semantics?
– Open-data?• Physical World
– Find, Track and Trace? (Identity, Location)• Twin Worlds?
– Physical and Digital
• E-Textbook readers?• IoT is driving the need for mechanisms to better interface with, and
interrogate information
Imagine when everything is connected to everything else...
The End
Questions?
Dr. Louis Coetzee
http://ioteg.meraka.csir.co.za
