The Internet of Things
Project Overview
All Around Us is an experimental project that explores the concept of the handset as a personal gateway to the Internet and everything around us; it is about the people, things and events of interest around us.
For this the project explores the mobile handset’s communication, sensor, information-access, multimedia and computing capabilities, with focus on the user’s mobile and social context, physical-world-interactions, services-on-the-web and data-mining, for the purpose of delivering software that enables for better ways to find, communicate and share with friends and family, to learn about our surroundings, and to consume information.
I use two terms for this: People-centric mobile computing, and “Internetting” everything around us.
All Around Us consists of software on the web, and software on the handset. It is initially targeted at the Android platform, to be followed by an iPhone version.
Elements of the Project
The project will explore the following topics (subject to change at any time):
- On People-Centric Computing
- The Mobile Handset as a Personal Gateway to the Internet and the Physical World
- The Mobile Internet and mobile applications and platforms
- The Design of the User-Centric and Rich User Experiences
- Leveraging the Handset Capabilities
- “Internetting” everything around us and the Handset as a Sensor: Sensing our Environment and the connecting the Physical and Digital Worlds
- Communicating with Others, the importance of the address book, and exploring new ways of communication
- Leveraging the Mobile Context
- Leveraging the Social Context
- Mobility and User Behavior
- Any/all information as desirable content
- The Platform and its Services, and the Power of the Cloud
- Making meaning out of data and patterns and the power of Tagging
- On Business Models and Use Cases
- Deployment Considerations
- Lessons Learned
Each of the above topics will be furthered explored.
On People-Centric Mobile Computing
See People-centric Mobile Computing.
The Design of the User Interface and Creating a Rich User Experience
Coming Soon…
Project History
- Project started: October 30, 2008
- November 17, 2008 — Updated The Elements of the Project
- November 2o, 2008 — Updated The Elements of the Project
- November 21, 2008 — Working on “The Design of the User-Centric and Rich User Experiences”