The cutting edge and complete overview of all key cases and examples within the Quantified Self and Internet of Things (IoT) movements across the globe. As an active organizer/founder/ambassador of Quantified Self Europe and Amsterdam as well as Mobile Monday Amsterdam, Lean Startup Rotterdam and Singularity University NL I was able to synthesize this presentation on IoT.

1. The Internet of Things
(Quantified Self, IoT, Smart Cities, Smart Cars, Smart Clothes)
May, 2012
Yuri van Geest
Quantified Self Europe
Singularity University – NL Ambassador
Vodafone Mobile Clicks
TEDx
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2. Agenda
• Big Picture
• Internet of Things
– Houses, Transport & Infrastructure, Robots,
Tracking, Clothes, Bodies
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3. Big Picture
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4. Power, Knowledge & Globalization
Religion & Church (< 1500)
Nations (1500-1800)
Multinationals (1800-2000)
Individual & Social network (> 2000)
• Social Media / Mobile Internet / DNA Profile / DIY
Bio / Neuro Profiles / Urban Farming (DIY Food) /
Solar Energy / 3D Printers / Robots / Claytronics /
Nanofactories / Self Health & Education / Smart
Cities & the Internet of Things
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5. Globalization of Individuals & Groups
• Increased Empowerment / DIY
• From Making Digital Products to
Material (3D Printers) and Biological
(DNA printer) Products
• Strong Rise of Startup Culture due to
Convergence / Singularity
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7. Evolution: More openness
• Blogs (2003) / Typepad
• Photos (2004) / Flickr
• Videos (2005) / YouTube
• Tweets (2007) / Twitter
• Location (2009) / FourSquare
• Personal Health Data (2011) / Quantified Self
• Smart Cities (2013?) / Internet of Things
• DNA (2015?) / Nanopore / Life / Halcyon Molecular
• Brain (2016?) / OmNeuron / NeuroSky / Emotiv / Interaxon
From the Outside World to our Inside Worlds/Bodies
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8. We Make The Invisible
Visible and Social
Planned Serendipity
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9. Internet of Things
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10. 13-3-2012 Online Tuesday 10

11. Every Body / Thing /
Object Will Become an
Open Platform
with an
Open API (in the end)
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12. Key developments
Everything is connected
(internet, sensor networks, objects)
Open data
(API’s; government, infrastructure, health)
Apps for everything
(in cities, at home, in cars, etc.)
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13. Benefits
Optimization / Productivity / Efficiency
Effectiveness
Collaboration / Cooperation
Prevention (Self Diagnosing & Healing Systems)
Scientific Research (Open Data, Big Data)
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14. Key developments
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15. U-City Songdo (Z-Korea, 2014)
• What is it:
– City with interconnected services
(health, school, traffic, sports,
shopping, home, (disaster) alerts,
security, etc.)
– 65.000 residents, 300.000 work
spaces, Business Hub
• Used technology:
– Wireless (WiFi, bluetooth)
– RFID tags, NFC
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16. Masdar City (Abu Dhabi, 2020)
• What is it:
– Fully self-sufficient city (CO2
neutral, no waste)
– 50.000 res., 1.500 companies
– No cars allowed, unmanned public
transport instead
• Used technology:
– Sustainable green energy: solar,
wind, hydrogen power station
– Water station on solar power,
recycling possibilities
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17. Smart Cities
Houses
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18. Smart Home
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19. Energy & Visualization
• What is it:
– Smart meters, energy monitoring, remote control of home devices
• Examples:
– SmartSync meters
– Nuon eManager
– AT&T Digital Life
– Transparant Samsung Smart Window
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20. Cell-All
• What is it:
– Recognition of dangerous, deadly
gasses and chemicals in the air
– Gives automatic alerts when needed
• Used technology:
– Sensors that measure the
concentration of different chemicals
• Created by:
– Homeland Security, NASA, Synkera,
Qualcomm, NC4
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21. Smart Cities
Transport & Infrastructure
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22. Smart Cars - Google’s Self-Driving Car
• What is it:
– Knight Rider IRL
– Cars that are connected with
the environment and can
communicate with other
vehicles
– Can drive autonomously
• Used technology:
– Many different sensors
(proximity, accelerometer,
GPS, radars, etc)
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23. Personal & Public Transport
• Examples:
– Wi-Fly
– MIT Media Lab CityCar (car on demand)
– PRT (personal rapid transit systems)
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24. Smart Transport - Benefits
• Reduced accident rates
• Less traffic / jams
• Reduce energy consumption (lowered emissions)
• Improved productivity and on board entertainment
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25. Infrastructure sensors
• Examples:
– Smart cameras that react on
sounds and movement. Can
recognize specific sounds (e.g.
gunfire, scream, etc.).
– Sensors in road / traffic cameras.
Can detect traffic congestions.
– Sensors in bridges and locks.
Information when open and
closed for water / road transport
– Sensors in buoys, measuring
temperature, water height, etc, as
well as alerting when needed
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26. Smart Cities
Robots
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27. For elderly, handicapped & security
• What is it:
– Remote health access, alert
service, contact with family
– Telepresence
– Help with daily shores,
improving living quality (air
refreshing, cleaning, etc.)
• Examples:
– Carebot
– iRobot
– Willow Garage
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28. Robot Swarms
• What is it:
– Groups of robots that do tasks more
efficiently and in a fundamentally
different way than individually
– Swarms can cover large grounds
and communicate with each other
– Will be especially interesting with
nanobots
• Examples:
– James McLurkin (Rice University)
– SMAVNET (Switzerland)
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29. Smart Cities
Tracking
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30. Object tracking
• What is it:
– Tags that can be added to
objects, food, animals or people
to track their whereabouts
– E.g: keys, wallet, mobile, bags
• Used technology:
– RFID tags
– NFC
• Examples:
– Touchatag
– ZigBee
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31. People Tracking
• What is it:
– Tracking sensors for children,
elderly (e.g. dementia) and pets
• Used technology:
– RFID tags
– GPS
• Examples:
– Amber Alert GPS
– WorldTracker
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32. Smart Cities
Clothes
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33. Team Lab interactive Hanger (Japan)
• What is it:
– Digital interactive hangers with
RFID tags
– Interact with digital displays above
products, triggering content when a
hanger is picked up
– Logs details and aggregates data
about popularity and effectiveness
of its positioning
• Used technology:
– RFID
– TV screens connected with a
computer
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34. Smart Clothes (Georgia Tech)
• What is it:
– Uses optical fibers to detect bullet wounds
– Medical Monitoring (Disease & Infant)
– Athletics and Biofeedback
– Police, Fire and Military Uses
• Used technology:
– Sensing devices (vital signs, oxygen and gas
levels, sound, temperature)
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35. Clothes = Media (thousands ofdress lights)
Case: Wearable LEDs LED
• What:
– The
dress
is
made
with
2mm
by
2mm
LEDs
woven
into
a
silk
chiffon
and
organza
crinoline
fabrics.
This
makes
the
dress
more
flowing
and
wearable.
• Used
technology:
– 24.000
LEDs
– Powered
by
iPod
baEeries

36. Smart Cities
Bodies
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37. Mobile Health Sensors/Quantified Self
• Heart rate
People as Sensors
• Body temperature
• Blood pressure Real-time Lifelogging and
• Cholesterol Sharing it on Social Media
• Sugar
• Sleep Aggregated and
• Movement Anonymous data will be
input for Open
• Chemicals in surrounding
Innovation and Science
• Outside temperature
• Presence of people Speedy detection of
• DNA Pandemics (decentralized
• Brain crowdsourced)
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38. Examples: Fitness / Running trackers
Basis
FitBit Band
Ultra
Nike+
Jawbone UP
iHome Fitness
Evolved
Headphones
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39. Examples: Self tracking
Withings
Zeo Sleep Manager
iBGStar
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40. Spiroscout Mobile Diary (Asthmapolis)
• Used for:
– Asthma tracking &
managing
• Used technology:
– Inhaler
tracking
device
(see
image
below)
• Result:
– Asthma
mapping
and
idenKfiable
causes
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41. Helius smart pills (Proteus)
• Used for:
– Vital Signs
– Sleep patterns
– Physical activity
– Stress levels
• Used technology:
– Chip
in
a
small
ingesKble
pill
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42. NeuroSky & Necomimi
• Used for:
– Controlling and training your
brainwave
– Showing attention and
meditation levels of a brain
• Other initiative:
– Necomimi (Neurowear)
– Turns brain signals from
emotions into visible actions
– For example: rising when
focused or drop down when
relaxed
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43. Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation
• How TDCS works:
– Electrical brain stimulation
current is delivered through EEG
electrodes placed on the head
– Speeds up learning (50% faster
in some occasions) or achieve a
state of creative FLOW using
GoFlow product
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44. The Future: Tricorder
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45. What can we learn from this?
• Higher evolved Experiencing (the NOW) and
Remembering (the PAST). The latter will be outsourced by
technology.
• We become more intuitive and (delayed) reflective/
rational at the same time.
• Assumption: The integration will be a seamless, automatic
and implicit instead of explicit and interruptive >>> life
becomes more natural, organic, creative and
flow
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46. We Make The Invisible
Visible and Social
Planned Serendipity and
Synchronicity
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47. Internet of Things
Key Enabler of
Intention Economy / VRM
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48. Take away
“Man knows himself only to the extent that
he knows the world; he becomes aware
of himself only within the world, and
aware of the world only within himself.”
“Every object, well contemplated,
opens up a new organ of perception
within us.” (Goethe)
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49. We will become more of
ourselves (creative, bottom up,
purpose, hyper individual,
intrinsic motivation, pure,
connected)
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50. Yuri van Geest
Singularity University – MoMo –
Quantified Self Europe – TEDx
Amsterdam – Topteam Creative
Industry – Mobile Clicks
Twitter: @vangeest
+31 6 113 19 290
Yuri.vangeest@singularityu.org
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