A Perspective on Location Services, Mobile Entrepreneurship & Startup Life

The video outlines the basic themes of the European Union’s Future Internet initiative. These include: an Internet of Services, where services are ubiquitous; an Internet of Things where in principle every physical object becomes an online addressable resource; a Mobile Internet where 24/7 seamless connectivity over multiple devices is the norm; and the need for semantics in order to meet the challenges presented by the dramatic increase in the scale of content and users.

[Source: Future Internet Initiative]

Check out the introduction video or go with the podcast.

Why do I blog this?

The introduction video is well-done and it will be interesting to see more outcomes from this large European research initiative with the funny name Service Web 3.0. The Internet of Things and the Internet of Services are definitely hot topics these days. In my opinion the Mobile Web will be the enabler and the first step towards services interacting on everyday objects in the sense that first the mobile phones will be the smart objects that are Internet-connected and capable of sensing the environment. Once you do this right, you can connect the fridge with the TV to see a cooking show for the ingredients in your fridge.

The Real World Internet (RWI) is a cross-domain topic of the Future Internet Assembly. See the Real-World Internet Scenarios wiki page for more information.

“The major issues of the future have to be tackled in cities: environment, security and well-being. To meet these needs, sensors and actuators will thrive preferably there thanks to economies of scale. This will take the form of mapping the physical space into the Internet by allowing the public to interact, locally or remotely, with the physical environment through the Internet via the use of mobile devices.” Roadmap Smart Places