Great addition to the already great Dopplr tool. Am just about to expend the significant part of this years carbon footprint...

• Situated Technologies: Toward the Sentient City
  An exhibition critically exploring the evolving relationship between ubiquitous/pervasive computing and urban architecture - SUBMISSION DEADLINE: June 27, 2008
  (tags: architecture competition ubiquitouscomputing)
• Arduino playground - DMX
  DMX512 - DMX512 (Digital MultipleXed) is an agreement over the connection between lighting controllers, dimmers,scrollers, scanners, etc.. base page for workshop info
  (tags: dmx arduino lighting)
• Welcome to Weather Underground : Weather Underground
  Weather RSS feeds in half hour periods.
  (tags: weather seewatt)
• tinker.it : Interactive Light
  Interactive Light - DMX Receiver Documentation (beta) Tinker.it DMX PWM converter Code Examples We're going to be using the Tinker.it DMX shield for arduino to generate DMX signals
  (tags: arduino dmx lighting)

• Process Trends Website
  Data Analysis and Visualization with Excel, R and Google Tools Analysis, Chart and Map Tools to Better Understand Our Data
  (tags: excel visualization)

• flare | visualization on the web
  Flare is a collection of ActionScript 3 classes for building a wide variety of interactive visualizations.
  (tags: flash actionscript flex visualization as3)

• Walking with Robots
  Walking with Robots is a three-year programme of public events funded by the EPSRC that aims to address: What is a Robot? What do we want robots to do in the future? What can they do now? Can robots have personalities?...
  (tags: convergence robotics)

We have been working heads down for the past few months on a new EC FP7 project called SENSEI. The goal of SENSEI is to provide the real-time sensor and actuator dimension of next generation network and service infrastructures. Or as the project website puts it:

In order to realise the vision of Ambient Intelligence in a future network and service environment, heterogeneous wireless sensor and actuator networks (WS&AN) have to be integrated into a common framework of global scale and made available to services and applications via universal service interfaces. SENSEI creates an open, business driven architecture that fundamentally addresses the scalability problems for a large number of globally distributed WS&A devices. It provides necessary network and information management services to enable reliable and accurate context information retrieval and interaction with the physical environment. By adding mechanisms for accounting, security, privacy and trust it enables an open and secure market space for context-awareness and real world interaction.

The tangible outputs of the SENSEI project include:

1) plug and play architecture / protocol
2) open service interface
3) efficient WS&AN island solutions (targeting 5nJ/bit)
4) pan European test platform

Our focus has been on supporting the scenario development and hopefully over the next month or two I will post some the scenarios that we have been finding most interesting. The themes we have been focusing on include Smart City, Healthcare and Transport.

The project fits under Future Internet - ICT Challenge 1: Pervasive and Trusted Network and Service Infrastructures

• Knowledge NBIC Project | The Project
  Sixth Framework EC, April 2006 - March 2009. The challenges raised by NBIC convergence call for renewed, informed and democratized knowledge politics. relevant to all concerned about the political, social and ethical implications of emerging technologies.
  (tags: convergence nbic nanotech biotech)
• Convergence Culture Henry Jenkins
  Convergence Culture Henry Jenkins ISBN 0814742815 336 pages Henry Jenkins at Authors@Google (video)
  (tags: books convergence culture media)

• Twitter / andy_house
  data feed from house automation system to twitter - good example of using other peoples notification systems to get your data "out there" - i think there is a how to in Make Feb 2008
  (tags: twitter sensei pwte energy)
• Nanotechnology - Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies - April 2005
  helping ensure that as nanotechnologies advance, possible risks are minimized, public and consumer engagement remains strong + the potential of these new technologies are realized. Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars / Pew Charitable Trusts
  (tags: convergence nanotech)
• New Nanotechnology Television Series Does “Sweat the Small Stuff”
  WASHINGTON - The Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies and National Science Foundation will host the Washington, DC, premiere event for the television series “Nanotechnology: The Power of Small”
  (tags: convergence nanotech)

• Nokia remade - Raphael Grignani - Thoughts
  We drew on a simple insight that in the not too distant future humanity will have extracted and worked much of the valuable minerals once buried in planet Earth. We will be compelled to reuse and celebrate what is essentially “above ground”.
  (tags: convergence craft sustainability recycling waste)

• Land Securities energy management
  Reducing energy usage, an office case study by Dave Farebrother FEI Environmental Director - pdf of slides from energy institute presentation. A case study from an office in London, UK
  (tags: seewatt energy pwte bop)
• BuilConn
  Buildings 2.0 a grand vision of the future of internet-centric buildings. Following two years of industry roundtables, in 2008 BuilConn will host an industry discussion on the subject of green energy, sustainability, and the role that Buildings 2.0
  (tags: pwte seewatt energy wsn bms sustainability)
• Interactive Institute › SWITCH! › The Swedish Energy Agency
  Interactive institute's Design Research Unit is happy to announce that funding has been granted from STEM (Energimyndigheten/The Swedish Energy Agency) to launch the project 'SWITCH! Energy Ecologies in Everyday Life'....
  (tags: seewatt energy visualization pwte)

• Nuage Vert - Home
  Reading local energy consumption on the cloud. The kW values shows the actual level on consumption in Ruoholahti & Lauttasaari. The % value shows the percentage of 41,000kW, which is the estimated peak consumption for the last week of February 2008.
  (tags: energy visualization monitoring sensei seewatt)
• UNdata
  The United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) - UN statistical databases through a single entry point. Users can now search and download a variety of statistical resources of the UN system.
  (tags: statistics data un visualization foresight)
• alphaWorks : Introduction to Visualization
  Data visualization, the art of using visual thinking to understand complex information, is a growing trend--but it also has an illustrious history.
  (tags: visualization information)

• 3rd Summer School on Applications of Wireless Sensor Networks
  senZations'08 summer school will be held in Serbia this summer.The school will be supported by the EU funded FP7 Prosense project
  (tags: sensei wsn)
• 3rd European Conference on Smart Sensing and Context - EuroSSC 2008
  Oct 29-31, 2008 in Zurich, Switzerland. Techniques, algorithms, architectures, protocols, and user aspects, underlying context-aware smart surroundings, and cooperating intelligent objects, and their applications to provide context-aware smart assistance.
  (tags: conference wsn 2008 sensei)
• ICT-MobileSummit 10-12th June Stockholm
  In the context of convergence, the 17th ICT Mobile and Wireless Communications Summit will address the challenges of Future Ubiquitous Networks based on mobile and wireless communications, complemented with fixed infrastructures. (SENSEI have booth here)
  (tags: sensei convergence wsn conference 2008)
• ICT 2008 | Europa - Information Society Lyon Nov 25-27
  The 2009-10 Programme for ICT research in EU's FP7 will be presented in detail. Other sources of EU research funding for ICT will also be examined (JTIs CIP) representing more than €2 billion in EU support for ICT research over the next two years.
  (tags: sensei conference 2008 ict convergence)
• Future Internet Symposium
  The first Future Internet Symposium will take place 28-30 September 2008 in Vienna, Austria. The programme will be international in scope, and focused on research, especially that which crosses the traditional boundaries of our field.
  (tags: sensei conference 2008)
• SENSEI - Project Summary
  SENSEI (Integrating the Physical with the Digital World of the Network of the Future) is an Integrated Project in the EU's FP7, in the ICT Challenge 1: Pervasive and Trusted Network and Service Infrastructures: ICT-2007.1.1: The Network of the Future.
  (tags: sensei)

• visualising future telecoms
  a collection of links to telco futures via Olivier in Sensei project. Interesting movie from Nokia on nantechnology from their Cambridge Labs - aim is to tell the rest of Nokia and the outside world what their R&D labs are doing
  (tags: sensei nanotech convergence telecoms)

We have been working with Tinker.it here in London in organising a few workshops around Arduino. The first is on Interactive Lighting and will involve a mix of presentations on current state of the art and building some simple protoypes. Guest talks include our own Francesco Anselmo, Massimo Banzi from Tinker.it and Daniel Hirschmann from Jason Bruges Studio. The giveaway swag to all attendees include a DMX controller and a DMX shield for Arduino.

For more info and to book a space jump to the workshop web page. This workshop is at Arup in London on Sat/Sun 10/11th May.