IBM Watson Health Cloud will bring together clinical, research and social data from a diverse range of health sources, creating a secure, cloud-based data sharing hub, powered by the most advanced cognitive and analytic technologies.
Taipei Telecare takes advantage of information and communication technology such as telemedicine and telecare, mobile applications and localized services. Taipei citizens – particularly those who live in remote areas, the elderly who live alone, as well as middle‐and low‐income households – may use the 1999 Citizen Hotline to access medical video conferencing service at the Healthcare Customer Center for distance measurement on blood pressure, blood sugar, body temperature and cardiac rhythm, and able to print out their physiology measurements at convenient store kiosks.
Telehealth is the consistent and accurate monitoring of a patient’s vital signs and symptoms via easy to use technology in their home. Patients take their readings and answer a series of health questions each day and the information is transmitted to a monitoring centre where technical triage personnel will verify the results and only alert a clinician if the data is outside of the parameters set for that individual patient.
They crowdsourced a complete city-wide Internet of Things data network with the people of Amsterdam in 6 weeks using a new technology named LoraWAN™. They are launching their global campaign to repeat this in every city in the world.
Thingful is a search engine for the Internet of Things, providing a unique geographical index of connected objects around the world, including energy, radiation, weather, and air quality devices as well as seismographs, iBeacons, ships, aircraft and even animal trackers.
Code for All is an international network of organizations who believe that digital technology opens new channels for citizens to more meaningfully engage in the public sphere and have a positive impact on their communities.
Apps for Amsterdam 2 was the second open data contest of the municipality of Amsterdam, in which developers were challenged to build apps based on municipality’s data. Besides the contest, in 2012 and 2013 informative meetings about open data were held where civil servants, developers and anyone interested could ask questions. Apps could be submitted if they relate to one of these six themes; safety, mobility, vacancy, energy, tourism & culture and democracy.
Land Insight is a web application that makes it easier to uncover hidden building opportunities by using big data to allow a super-fast initial site assessment on any piece of land. On top of this massive dataset is a crowd sourced insight layer that creates an ever-improving list of opportunities and collaborations not to be found on the open market. The platform is currently being road tested by East London Custom Build Group.
Beacons give objects a personality. They allow a doorway to welcome you and a picture to tell you about itself. They let you know you are near a product you like or that coffee is half price. They let a tourist sign explain itself in your language. In a way they are almost magical but the technology that made them is so simplistic a child could have invented it. Beacons are a also a great way for app developers engage with the internet of things for the first time.
The term iBeacon and Beacon are often used interchangeably. iBeacon is the name for Apple’s technology standard, which allows Mobile Apps (running on both iOS and Android devices) to listen for signals from beacons in the physical world and react accordingly. In essence, iBeacon technology allows Mobile Apps to understand their position on a micro-local scale, and deliver hyper-contextual content to users based on location. The underlying communication technology is Bluetooth Low Energy.