Talk at buy tourism online 2011 in Italy during the IoT session with Riccardo Luna and Fabrizio Pappalardo

1. Web of Things Meets Tourism…
Dominique Guinard, Ph.D.
CTO @ Evrythng (evrythng.net)
Researcher @ ETH Zurich
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2. [www.flickr.com/photos/moragcasey/]
Introduction & Applications
A tad of Internet / Web of Things Buzz
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3. Smart Things?
A very large ecosystem of smart things,
complex application development
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4. The Web of Things
Web Web
Apps Server
Smart Gateway
Users Web Developers Engineers
http://my-house.com/lamps/livingRoom
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5. Real-Time Products Tracking with RFID
• Every product:
– Tagged with RFID
– Gets a URL
• Products can be tracked
• Applications can be
easily built
http://epcmashup.webofthings.com
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6. Smart Energy Monitoring
• Developers:
– Smart Meters on the
Web
– Mashups on mobile
phones / Web pages
• Users:
– Used by several families
around the world
(Energie Visible)
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7. Social Networks and Mashups
[http://www.clickscript.ch]
[http://www.clickscript.ch]
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8. The Big Picture
Social Web
Smart Things
Mobile Web
Semantic Web Programmable Web
Web of Things
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9. Web of Things @ Evrythng?
Think of a Facebook for things − individual things with unique
digital profiles, like we have, to update, share and add to…
Evrythng wants to organize the world’s objects
with an active digital identity for every thing.
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10. [ www.flickr.com/photos/docman ]
Tourism and the Web of Things?
Bridging the gap, designing the future…
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11. Hotel Room 2.0
• Each room has a unique
active digital identity:
– Each room gets a unique
URL:
• http://evrythng.net/thngs
/Room-212-Santa-Maria-
Novella
[www.flickr.com/photos/ojame] – Each room can be
rated, reviewed, booked,
etc.
– Plane seats?
• Enabling tech:
– QR-Code, mobile phone
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12. Hotel Room 2.5
• Each room knows you:
– Visitor profile
– On RFID loyalty card
– Dims the light, selects
your news
paper, favorite
[www.flickr.com/photos/ojame] channels, room-
temperature, etc.
• Enabling tech:
– RFID/NFC reader
– RFID loyalty card
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13. Hotel Room 3.0
• Each room has a
« Smart Gateway »:
– Scan and control!
– Light, TV, thermostats.
– Support several
[www.flickr.com/photos/ojame] languages…
• Enabling tech:
• Smart Gateway/IPv6
• Mobile phone
• HTML5 & Mobile Web
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14. Smart Shopping Trip
• « Facebook » for things:
– Profile of your shopping
habits
App for personalized
shopping trips
• Enabling tech:
– Active Digital Identities
– Social APIs
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15. « What’s Hot ? » Spotter
• The city as a sensor:
– Mobile phone as a sensor
– Sensing infrastructure
App for:
« What’s Hot! »
A quiet place?
• Enabling tech:
– Social APIs
– Mobile phones (BT
sensing)
– Sensor networks
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16. [flickr.com/photos/brapke]
Conclusion & Outlook
What did we learn?
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17. Take home notes!
• Key technologies:
– Auto-ID: RFID, NFC, QR-codes
– Web-enabled appliances (IPv6, HTML5, etc.)
– Social Networks: APIs, Networks of Things
• Opportunities for tourism:
– Better recommendations (active digital identities)
– Better personalization (customers social profiles)
– Better interaction (universal control systems)
– Your-idea-here!
• Pitfalls:
– Avoid the roaming devil (bundle content)
– Ask for platform independence (iOS vs Android vs Web!)
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18. Thanks!
Web of Things
Internet of Things
Sensor Networks
Auto-ID
RFID
QR
NFC
EPC
Barcode
Arduino
SunSPOT
OpenPIcus
ioBridge
Smart Gateways
Chumby Dominique Guinard
Nabaztag Twitter/LinkedIn/FB/mail: guinard.org
Energie Visible
Active Digital Identity
Blog: webofthings.org
Evrythng Company: evrythng.net
HTML5
PhoneGap / Sencha
Mobile Web
Social Network APIs
Open Social
Social Graph
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19. Backup
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20. Tagged Objects
• Auto-ID technologies:
– RFID, RFID Network
– QR-Codes
– Image recognition, OCR
– Etc.
• Becoming:
– Cheaper
– More accessible
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21. Sensor Networks
• Real-time environmental
monitoring:
– Mobile phones
– Building monitoring
– City Infrastructure
• Becoming:
– More connected
(lowpower WiFi)
– More accessible
(Arduino, I/O Bridge, etc.)
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22. Machines & Appliances
• Smarter appliances:
– Smart
TVs, Fridges, Lightning
– NAS (Network Attached
Storage), Smart Gateways
– Mobile phones as universal
remote control
• Becoming:
– Cheaper
– Uniformly connected
(IPv6, 6loWPAN, etc.)
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23. The Green Tourist
• Dashboard of activities
– Carbon footprint
– Merit « Badges »
• Enabling tech:
– Active Digital Identities
– RFID
– EPC Network
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24. Flexible Electronic Article Surveillance
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25. Friends and Things: User Interface
25 H-art, Dec. 22, 2010 Dominiq
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