El producto resultante integrará sensorización, comunicaciones y explotación de datos para mejorar los servicios ofrecidos a los ciudadanos.
Un consorcio integrado por once organizaciones vascas en colaboración con ayuntamientos y entidades locales, ha comenzado a trabajar en el proyecto e-Menhir, una iniciativa que pretende desarrollar y comercializar un producto para su uso en las ciudades que integre sensorización, comunicaciones y explotación de datos y contribuya a mejorar la eficiencia en los servicios municipales y la generación de nuevos servicios y aplicaciones.
Predicting the future is hard and risky. Predicting the future in the computer industry is even harder and riskier due to dramatic changes in technology and limitless challenges to innovation. Only a small fraction of innovations truly disrupt the state of the art. Some are not practical or cost-effective, some are ahead of their time, and some simply do not have a market. There are numerous examples of superior technologies that were never adopted because others arrived on time or fared better in the market. Therefore this document is only an attempt to better understand where technologies are going.
“And the winner is….. ¡Urbiotica!”, proclamó el presidente del jurado entre los aplausos de los presentes. Antonio Brey, su director, agradeció con una sonrisa el éxito y disfrutó el momento como si acabara de recibir un Oscar. En cierta medida lo fue, aunque el escenario no fuera Hollywood ni Urbiotica una película, sino más bien un fabricante de sensores.
Here’s one way Google could make sense of all the hype around the “connected home.”
Google just announced that it’s snapping up Nest, maker of smart thermostat and smoke detectors, for $3.2 billion in cash. Nest has raised around $80 million from investors including Shasta Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, and Google Ventures.
Startups are still trying to make it easier — and cheaper — to fill your house with sensors and connected gadgets.
One of these startups is Snupi, whose WallyHome system tells users when it detects water leaks in their homes. Millions of people have to deal with water damage each year, and Snupi thinks it can make some big cash preventing that damage from happening in the first place.
The company’s investors seem to agree and have given Snupi $7.5 million to help bring the WallyHome, Snupi’s first product, to market by March.
We take our smartphones everywhere, so it makes sense they are becoming command central for a lot of things, including our homes. While smart home technology has been in discussion for years, it’s the phone that makes it all possible. How will the home factor in with the next generation of mobile technology? To get an idea, let’s take a look at what’s happening right now.
When I interviewed Tony Fadell, the inventor of the iPod and now CEO of Nest, two years ago, he told me that he started the company, which sells smart thermostats and alarms, because existing products for taking control of your home over the Internet were clunky and appealed only to the technically minded (see “Nest’s Control Freaks”). “Home automation is for single geeky guys. It’s not for families,” he said.
Solar chimneys, ice storage, recycled materials, green balconies and solutions to how affordable housings can be refurbished in a way that is both sustainable and scalable – without major rent increases and rehousing of the residents. These are some of the suggestions from the winning proposals to the Nordic Built Challenge.
Starting with 171 excellent proposals, it is now down to the 5 winners of the Nordic Built Challenge – an open, multidisciplinary design contest for the refurbishment of one building in each Nordic country.
The winners are (click on the project for an article in each national language):
As a growingnumber of Internet-connected home appliances hit the market, David Bryan and Daniel Crowley worry that digital ne’er-do-wells will get new ways to take control of these devices, unlocking your house, running up your heating bill, flushing your toilet—or worse—from afar.
