Internet of Things

Announcements

• NJSM object file & research library study time blocks
  • Tues, October 27, 10 AM – 12 PM and 1-3 PM
  • Wed, October 28, 10 AM – 12 PM and 1-3 PM
  • Thu, October 29, 10 AM – 12 PM and 1-3 PM
  • Fri, October 30, 10 AM – 12 PM and 1-3 PM
• Notes from Beth Cooper
• We’ll travel next week to the Sarnoff Museum, where we’ll explore works from previous classes and discuss Augmented Reality

Open Content Review

APIs

Most web applications are built in a three-tiered architecture:

• presentation layer ( html, css, javascript, etc )
• application logic (php, ruby, python, javascript, etc)
• database (dbms, file, spreadsheet, etc)

APIs are basically three-tiered web applications without the presentation layer. You access the data using a URL over HTTP, like a web page, but all you get back is data.

Why is this important? Because you can create different & separate presentation layers for different devices and situations. It also allows you to mashup data from different sources and wrap it in entirely new interfaces.

example:

• Sarnoff iBeacon Tour
• Sarnoff iBeacon Tour API

Open Applications

Timeline JS3

One of the great things about Timeline.js is that it’s both a content visualization app (application + presentation layer) and a content database (data layer). As such it gives us a complete content management solution that relatively non-technical people can use to update the presentation layer without having to know how to code.

Exercise

• Break up into teams of 3 or 4 – one to edit the Google spreadsheet, one to handle Paula’s timeline info, one to create the web page and one to find additional content
• Take a look at the History of the New Jersey State Museum one-sheet Paula Andras gave us during our first visit to the museum.
• Go to Timeline JS3 and click on the green “Make a Timeline” button
• As a team, work through Paula’s document and create a timeline of the history of the New Jersey State Museum. Try to include some images, videos or maps in your timeline record entries.
• Here’s a Github Gist starter web page if you need it for your Timeline

Design Notebooks

Let’s take a few minutes to catch up on some of your Design Notebooks

Internet of Things

According to Wikipedia:

“The Internet of Things (IoT) refers to uniquely identifiable objects and their virtual representations in an internet-like structure.”

The idea is that objects can be directly connected to the internet, transmitting or receiving data, or be tagged in such a way to have digital representations of the objects be accessible over the internet. And, increasingly, much of that IoT traffic is M2M.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVlT4sX6uVs

History – http://postscapes.com/internet-of-things-history

Roadmap – http://robertoigarza.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/rep-six-technologies-with-potential-impacts-on-us-anexothe-internet-of-things-nic-2008.pdf

More info on IoT – http://postscapes.com/internet-of-things-resources/

How do we connect everyday objects to the internet?

• QRCodes
• RFIDs
• iBeacons
• MicroControllers
  • Arduino
  • Raspberry Pi
  • Tessel

examples:

• Estimote
• RFIDs
• EggMinder

The Internet of Things is about sensors and networks

The Internet is the network of networks

examples:

• Google Web Lab
• Sarnoff iBeacon Tour
• Sarnoff iBeacon Tour API

Exercise

• Divide into groups of 3 or 4 representing four tracks at IMM (e.g. music, games/programming, animation, and physical computing)
• Log into the class blog using your team account and create a post for each room in AIMM that’s significant for your IMM track
• Create a category for your track and assign all your posts to that category
• Go to http://qrcode.kaywa.com/ and create QR Codes for each of your posts
• Print, cut out & place QRCodes around the AIMM building at your chosen track locations
• Fire up your QRCode Reader and take your creation for a test drive
• How could you tweak it to make it better?

Assignment

Object Interpretation

• Review Beth Cooper’s notes, paying particular attention to her thoughts on object attributes, creating stories using those attributes, and the project ideas we captured when we last visited the NJSM
• Read Imagining the Possibilities
• Create a new slide in your Design Notebook and title it “Interesting Objects”
• Identify an object or objects in the Pretty Big Things and/or Civil War Flags collections that you find particularly interesting. Identify the object attributes for each object and describe some story concepts you might want to develop

Augmented Reality (AR)

• Read More than Real in the 2012 TrendsWatch report, pp. 20-22
• Read Augmented Reality in the 2012 NMC Horizon Report Museum Edition, pp. 19-22
• Create a new slide in your Design Notebook and title it “Augmented Reality”
• From the reading, which examples of Augmented Reality particularly appealed to you and why?
• Do some Google searches to find other examples of AR-enhanced museum exhibits? List them and include a brief description of each.