Episode 14 – Roomware Devhouse

Geek art by Alexandra

Commercial

• NeighborNodes∞
• NokiaSensor∞
• PartyStrands∞
• A project in Utrecht∞ where people can send photos to a big outdoor screen
• more shotcode/semacode clones∞
• Location aware mobile social networking: Kakiloc∞, and blog∞ (cool tech, the name sucks though)
• Fujitsu creates an invisible bar code∞
• Paraplay∞ – A party in Paradiso where the playlist is aggregated itunes songs (via Patrick∞
• Order drinks via sms∞
• Home Automation∞ (you need a NYTimes free subscription),
• Smart Labs’ Home (INSTEON)lighting-control system∞ and the important software∞ that won awards that goes with it
• Home Automation site∞ which makes me reexamine what the correct definition(if there is one) for roomware is?
• Echelon∞ – a developer of control networks, which connect machines and other electronic devices; embedded control networks, which are networks inside machines that connect tiny sensors and actuators that comprise the workings of a machine, and smart metering, a next-generation utility infrastructure for automated metering and other utility services. (not to be confused with this Echelon∞
• Blue-tooth powered personal speakers∞ – press play on music in your phone and listen through speakers…boom in personal wireless devices
• RFID doorkey∞, NEDAP (de stemcomputer dude) makes RFID keys for home nurses too.
• Wiffiti∞: A service that enables people to send text messages to large flat panel displays in venues such as cafes, bars and clubs. Messages sent to Wiffiti screens are also visible on the service’s website, encouraging people to text from anywhere and then watch responses from across the US, if not the world.
• MuseumN8 Bluepoints∞, mobile tourguides using a mobile app and bluetooth points.

Open or Non-profit

• open source blue∞tooth messenging system (the server on sourceforge∞)
• SemaPedia∞
• NetNiet.org Draadloos Festival 2006∞
• Playing Flickr∞, in Mediamatic
• RFID implant∞
• http://www.attentionplease.co.uk/∞ – Measuring ‘Attention’ in the gallery space with video and RFID
• The aim for Software Defined Radio (SDR) is to be able to translate and understand any kind of radio wave signal, such as 3G or wi-fi.∞
• Hey U∞- open source protocol to control lighting/security/sensors via electricity cabling hooked up to x10 interface
• TEAHA∞ (The European Application Home Alliance) – Open standard for electronic home. “Specification of an open and secure framework for seamless interoperability in a global European home platform.”
• Hans Scholten’s research∞on integrating home appliances into one coherent distributed architecture. He wants “to design, build and evaluate one common integrated network for entertainment, control and information, that supports both realtime and non-realtime traffic with a high degree of robustness, and to research the use of resource-lean embedded systems, so that even inexpensive small appliances can be integrated in the system. Efficient service discovery is an important aspect of this objective.”
• Home Gateway Initiative∞- an open forum launched by Telcos in December 2004 with the aim to release specifications of the home gateway.In addition to Telcos several manufacturers have joined the alliance. * Providing a remote management service for the home gateway & the devices beyond,
  * Allowing the right device or application to connect to the right service platform with the right service class / Quality of Service,
  * Recognizing and potentially uniting devices capabilities
  * Playing a role in the local network to federate device capabilities and offer customers a better “integrated home environment”. (how open is this initiative really? i see a lot of potential politics here)
• control colored lights on outside of a building∞ via calling from your mobile phone

Conceptual

• Environment XML∞ -proposes a kind of “RSS feed” for tagged environmental data. – open source
• Open Source Architecture∞ -a combination of static ‘hardware’ and dynamic ’software’. Pushing the analogy further, architecture could be considered an ‘operating system’ within which people write their own programmes for spatial interaction. One model of operating system that is pa

rticularly relevant to architecture (since the design of space is always collaborative) is an open source system.

Government

• Fingerprint security∞ at the doors of pubs and clubs in major English cities (via Marek)