2. Hello! :)
My name is Steve and the Internet is my
friend.
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3. I ride the train every day!
A B
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4. NixonMcInnes
Applied Technology
Identifying new opportunities in the social web
since 2009(ish).
We ! APIs, BIG DATA, real-time data, geo data, websockets,
JavaScript, HTML, HTTP, mobile, ...
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6. The Internet of Things
The Internet of What?!
The Internet of Things!
Everyday objects, talking to us and each
other, via the Internet.
In a way that makes our lives easier/
better/more FUN.
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7. The Internet of Things
Any âthingâ that has a
measurable physical property
can be plugged into the
Internet, to transmit data
about its state, and accept
instructions on how to change
its state.
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19. The Internet of Trains
The Internet of What?!
The Internet of Trains!
Everyday trains, talking to us and each
other, via the Internet.
In a way that makes our lives easier/
better/more FUN.
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20. Warning...
Some of the ideas in the next
section may be half-baked
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22. What if...
...I could become friends
with my regular train on
Facebook?
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23. What if...
...the train could read my
social graph, and tell me
when my friends were also
on board?
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24. What if...
...I could follow my train on
Twitter?
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25. The if...
What Internet of Trains
I could talk to the train?
And the train could talk back?
What would we talk about?
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26. What would we talk about?
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27. What would we talk about?
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28. What would we talk about?
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29. What would we talk about?
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30. What would we talk about?
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31. What if...
...I could subscribe to the trainâs
checkins on Foursquare, and see
where it was / when it was
leaving?
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32. What if...
Like me, the train had a
personality?
What would its personality be?
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33. And how would a FCC train differ
from a TPE train?
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34. What if...
The train, being plugged into the
Internet, could communicate with
other things that were also plugged
into the Internet?
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