The slides for my talk at re:publica 2012. From the description of the talk: Streetlights are online, geiger counters are. Fridges are online for the better part of the last ten years and cars are just now coming online. There’s hardly any consumer electronics left that aren’t in some way communicating on the internet. And with chips getting ever cheaper and ever smaller, even lightbulbs now communicate with the smart phone. There’s houses that tweet and pill cases that send SMS. All in all, there’s more “Things” on the mobile phone networks now than people. Everything’s connected it seems. How about a little help then in setting it all into context?

1. THE REVOLUTION
AROUND THE CORNER
How the
Internet of Things
changes Everything,
again.
Martin Spindler
re:publica 2012, Berlin

2. Martin Spindler
martin@mjays.net

3. Internet of Things?

4. Time Magazine,
Inventions of the Year 2008

5. Three Laws

6. Moore’s Law
Transistor Count and Moore’s Law 2011 by Wikipedia User Wgsimon, CC BY-SA

7. Koomey’s Law
Graph of computations/kWh from 1946 to 2009 by Jonathan Koomey, CC BY-NC-ND

8. Metcalfe’s Law

9. 24 Billion 2020 (GSM Alliance)
There will be 50 Billion Internet connected devices by 2020 (Cisco)
1 Trillion 2015 (IBM)

10. 3.1 in 2020
There will be 6.5 Internet connected devices per person in 2020
129.9 in 2015

11. 3.1 in 2020
5.5 today
There will be Internet connected devices per person
6.5 in 2020
129.9 in 2015

12. “In fact, there are already more non-human
users than human users on both the AT&T
and Verizon networks.”
Inc. Magazine, Feb. 2011

19. 13 Sensors

20. iGeigie prototype by Sean Bonner, CC-BY-NC-SA

31. You are here.

35. PlanIT Valley, Portugal

39. “It’s not often that we get excited about a refrigerator, but
Samsung’s app-capable LCD cool-box has us salivating.
This Wi-Fi-enabled 4-door fridge sports an 8-inch touchscreen,
making it possible to use apps like like Epicurious for recipes,
play music through Pandora (yes, it has speakers), read the
news, take notes, display photos and mark events on Google
Calendar.”
Andrew Couts, digitaltrends.com

41. “We asked Samsung
for its smartest new
invention.
This is what they
gave us.”
Derek Thompson, The Atlantic

42. “[…] collecting all Internet Fridge ideas and the latest attempts
of large white goods manufacturers to address this venn
diagram that simply won’t stick: Food management and the
internet. Brilliant idea, crap implementation over and over
again. But the hope lives on.”
Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino on
fuckyeahinternetfridge.tumblr.com

45. Raspberry Pi pre-release board by Jared Smith, CC BY-SA

46. “The Raspberry Pi is a credit-card sized computer that plugs into
your TV and a keyboard.”

47. “The Raspberry Pi is a credit-card sized computer that plugs into
your TV and a keyboard.”
for $35

48. Arduino Duemilanove and Arduino Nano by David Mellis, CC-BY

49. marvin/homesense by Russel Davies, CC BY-NC

50. bikemap/homesense by Russel Davies, CC BY-NC

51. Air Quality Egg

54. Thank you for your attention.

55. Martin Spindler
mjays.net
twitter.com/mjays
martin@mjays.net