the role of individuals and communities in iot
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Understanding the IoT ecosystem
The role of individualsand communities in IoT
Luca [email protected]
http://research.liuc.it/luca.mari
Milano, 10 May 2016
Abstract
Differently from the industrial automation epitomised in the Computer Integrated Manufacturing of the ’70s and ’80s, IoT is a human-centric technology, in which the widespread adoption of open source and hardware tools lowers the barriers to entry and blurs the roles, toward scenarios of extreme customisation made by prosumers operating in informal, dynamic communities. The talk will propose some reflections on this perspective, from the data and experiences obtained in an ongoing European research project on the “Digital Do It Yourself” phenomenon.
IIoT and CIMIs “Industrial Internet of Thing s” just a different term for what we used to call “Computer Integrated Manufacturing ”?
(source: Google Books - Ngram Viewer)
The game changer: Internet
“The major technical background of Industrie 4.0
is the introduction of Internet technologies into i ndustry”(source: R. Drath, A. Horch, Industrie 4.0: Hit or Hype?, IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine, 8(2), 56–58, 2014)
IoT entities are:
capable of data processing and storage
provided with a physical and informational identity
interoperable in a systemic context
“Smart objects”
Entities that are:capable of data processing and storageprovided with a physical and informational identity
interoperable in a systemic context
are we talking about human beings ?
are we trying to producewith technology in few yearswhat natural evolution has been producing with biology in millions of years?
Bottom-up changes
Natural evolution is a bottom-up phenomenon
Hypothesis: digital technologies are becoming enablers of bottom-up changes,because digital tools are more and more powerful, flexible, connected, affordable, easy to use, ...
→ Let us study how individuals and communities do IoT
About two years ago we designed a research project from this standpoint
Horizon 2020 - Research and Innovation Action
“Digital Do It Yourself” (DiDIY)
[January 2015 – June 2017]
http://www.didiy.eu
Partners:Universita Carlo Cattaneo LIUC [IT]The University Of Westminster LBG [UK]Ab.Acus SRL [IT]The Manchester Metropolitan University [UK]Stichting Free Knowledge Institute [NL]Amerikaniko Kollegio Anatolia [GR]Politecnico di Milano [IT]
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 644344.
0. Social perception
In a number of workshops we are interviewing high school studentsabout their perception of Making, 3D printers, IoT, etc
What are the most characterising features of a maker?
1. Observing a DIY online community...
Instructables (www.instructables.com) has currently ~ 210k registered users~ 70k of them uploaded at least one project, for a total of ~ 200k projects
trend of user registration (2005-2016)
trend of project upload (2005-2016)
Observing a DIY online community: projects
makers are relatively young...
number of uploaded projects by year grouped by category (cyan: tech)
Observing a DIY online community: age
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… and makers producing IoT-related projects (red) are younger...
IoT
non-IoT
Observing a DIY online community: community
number of comments providedby authors of IoT-related projects by age
IoT
non-IoT
2. Testing a bottom-up approach to IoT...
With some classes of high school students,co-design of an IoT monitoring system for their labs
Goal: real time acquisition of data from:-- sound sensors-- light sensors-- temperature sensors-- humidity sensors-- gas sensorsand high level, effective presentation for educational purposes
IoT workshop settings
Participants:40 high school students
from different fields
without any background knowledge in IoT
group challenge
Task:create a new IoT dashboard from scratch to display real-time data
collected from the environment
(Non-)conclusions
While it is too early to propose well-founded conclusions from our research,
IoT seems really a powerful context for a bottom-up approach to innovation,
in which individuals and communities play new, important roles
(source: The Economist, 21 April 2012)
Will it be the revolution of creativity?
Thank you for your kind attention
Luca Mari, research.liuc.it/luca.mari [email protected]
Università Cattaneo - LIUC, www.liuc.it
SmartUp, smartup.liuc.it, with a MakerBot Innovation Center, ic.liuc.it
Lab#ID, labid.liuc.it
DiDIY Project, www.didiy.eu
with the partnership ofUnione degli Industriali della Provincia di VareseCamera di Commercio di Varese