Autor: admin

In a smart mobility collaboration with IBM researchers, the city of Dublin is integrating data from a citywide network of sensors with geospatial data to identify in real-time the optimal traffic-calming measures to reduce congestion. Source: smartcitiescouncil.com See on Scoop.it – Lab404 – Digital Media, Network and Space Lab

Férias terminando e leituras em andamento e contando…Mas nada de não-ficção, pois a vida é curta. Terminei, ainda vindo de 2014, “Por um outro amor” de Knausgard. Espero agora ansioso o terceiro volume da trilogia para continuar a leitura em português, mas se demorar muito a sair, vou para o Leia mais… »

Every once in a while, I am asked what I “make.” A hack day might require it, or a conference might ask me to describe “what I make” so it can go on my name tag. I’m always uncomfortable with it. I’m uncomfortable with any culture that encourages you take on Leia mais… »

  The smart city is, to many urban thinkers, just a buzzphrase that has outlived its usefulness: ‘the wrong idea pitched in the wrong way to the wrong people’. So why did that happen – and what’s coming in its place, asks Steven Poole Source: www.theguardian.com “Why do smart cities Leia mais… »

  Connecting: Makers from Microsoft Design on Vimeo.

  Aggregate data and decision making are being hoarded by a few technology companies with powerful data infrastructure. Does it have to be this way? Or could we create a future in which this data infrastructure is available for use by anyone in the world? Source: www.technologyreview.com See on Scoop.it Leia mais… »

Em janeiro de 2015 começamos o projeto “AUGMENTED URBANITY AND SMART TECHNOLOGIES: HOW “SMART” ARE OUR CITIES BECOMING?”, vencedor do edital NEWTON FUND (UK) e que reúne pesquisadores das Universidades de Durham e Plymouyth no Reino Unido e da PUC-PR e FACOM-UFBA para discutir o tema das “cidades inteligentes”. Mais Leia mais… »

Source: alias.estadao.com.br Feliz 2015 See on Scoop.it – Lab404 – Digital Media, Network and Space Lab

Routers on 600 buses and taxis allow free Internet access and collect data for city planners. Source: www.technologyreview.com See on Scoop.it – Lab404 – Digital Media, Network and Space Lab

Should you believe the hype on the Internet of Things? Can it really be the (NBTE) Next Biggest Thing Ever? Gartner thinks there will be 26 billion “Internet of Things” units by 2020. Not to be outdone, IDC predicts 212 billion “things”. Source: linkis.com See on Scoop.it – Lab404 – Leia mais… »