ThingWorx Brasil - A Internet das Coisas

sexta-feira, 14 de janeiro de 2011

A tragédia no Rio e a Internet das Coisas. O que uma coisa tem a ver com a outra?

Para saber a resposta vejam esse site: http://www.psfk.com/2010/12/rio-de-janeiro-partners-with-ibm-to-build-a-smarter-city.html.

Essa notícia é anterior a catástrofe da região serrana do Rio. O Rio de Janeiro fez uma parceria com a IBM para um protótipo do conceito de Smart City, baseado na iniciativa da IBM denominada Smart Planet. A ideia é basicamente a construção de uma rede sensores espalhados pela cidade que permitam a previsão de eventos climáticos críticos e desastrosos. A ideia é permitir com uma antecedência de 48 horas a ocorrência desses eventos e a integração com a infraestrutura existente para execução de planos coordenados de evacuação.

In it’s bid to be the dominant platform in the emerging Smart City market, IBM has announced a partnership with Eduardo Paes, the mayor of Rio de Janeiro, to build a “Single City Operations Center” that would allow the mayor to monitor, command, & forecast critical events across the city. The contract offers IBM the chance to prototype their Smarter Planet platform on a world-class megacity. Focusing initially on forecasting extreme weather events like the disastrous floods & mudslides that wracked Rio in April 2010, the system will be built on IBM’s Deep Thunder platform and tuned to data from river basins, rainfall logs, topographic surveys, and satellite feeds. This will give Rio’s mayor and his COO (newly-appointed at IBM’s request) a 48hr head’s-up for forecasting extreme weather conditions likely to impact the city. The system would also integrate with existing civic infrastructure to help coordinate evacuation plans and traffic flows:

A Ascensão das Máquinas ??? É o início da Skynet e do Exterminador do Futuro??

Essa não é a visão passada por esse interessante artigo da Forbes, que comenta sobre o tema da Internet das Coisas em função do 2011 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) .

http://blogs.forbes.com/markpmills/2011/01/11/facebook-groupon-netflix-drive-the-next-big-thing-and-americas-economic-resurgence/?boxes=Homepagechannels

Segundo o artigo a ascensão da Internet das Coisas, diferentemente do filme de Holiwood, irá liberar os humanos para fazerem mais, produzirem de forma mais eficiente e serem mais saudáveis. Vamos ver no que vai dar.

Outra informação interessante dada pelo artigo da Forbes é que o Gartner prevê que até o final de 2012, que os dados provenientes de sensores físicos irão representar 20% do tráfico da internet (excluídos os videos):

By year end 2012, physical sensors will create 20 percent of non-video internet traffic. We are all familiar with CCTV systems for monitoring traffic movement, license plates and many other applications, but how about collecting data from the hard-disk shock sensors in your notebook to collect data to better understand earth tremors and earthquakes? The extent and diversity of real-time environmental sensing is growing rapidly as our ability to act on and interpret the growing volumes of data to capture valuable information increases. Gartner says organisations should consider how use of the growing volume of real-time data might create new business models and enable better informed business decision making.

http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=876512

Eu me tornei membro do Internet of Things Council

Com o objetivo de cooperar no desenvolvimento da Internet das Coisas tornei-me membro do Conselho da Internet das Coisas, uma organização mundial que visa discutir e desenvolver ideias que viabilizem a Internet of Things em diferentes frentes e aplicações. Por ser um tema tão abrangente e novo envolve profissionais de diferentes áreas de conhecimento que juntos realizam congressos e seminários ao redor do mundo sobre o tema.

http://www.theinternetofthings.eu/content/flavio-maeda

WoT 2011 - Second International Workshop on the Web of Things

Vejam a chamada para o Segundo Workshop Internacional da Web of Things a ser realizado em San Francisco, June, 2011.

http://www.webofthings.com/wot/2011/

The "Web of Things" is the next logical step in this evolution towards global networks of sensors and actuators, enabling new applications and providing new opportunities. The Web of Things explores the layer on top of connectivity with Things and addresses issues such as fast prototyping, data integration, and interaction with objects. Because the Web is omnipresent and flexible enough, it has become as an excellent protocol for interacting with embedded devices, and the Web of Things is a vision where things become seamlessly integrated into the Web - not just through Web-based user interfaces of custom applications, but by reusing the architectural principles of the Web for interacting with devices. The "Web of Things" workshop solicits contributions in all areas related to the Web of Things, and we invite application designers to think beyond sensor networks and Web applications, and to imagine, design, build, evaluate and share their thoughts and visions on what the future of the Web and networked devices will be.