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Google picks up CMU for IoT

Google has chosen Carnegie Mellon University to lead a multi University Project in the IoT. Carnegie Mellon will collaborate with Cornell, Stanford and University of Illinois  to create a project code named GIoTTO. Google's Open Web of Things  seeks  to increase interoperability, security, and an workable user interface in the movement towards the Internet of Things. Google has awarded half a million dollars to Carnegie Mellon University to develop its campus  to be a "living lab" of cheap  but value generating sensors, integrated apps, and friendly user-developed tools. This grant seems to ensure applied research in keeping with Google's vision of m2m future.

The project, GIoTTo, seeks to transform  inanimate objects on to live, ticking and continuous sources of information. This information would convert to  big data format and permit data analysis. Students and staff at the University will create their own scripts on the basis of such big data.  With the voluminous quantity of data being generated on campus, the researchers aim for a  "living lab" element in the lives of the researchers.  Innovation and adoptive technologies are the key to success of IoT.

CMU researchers have already created new IoT technology, including Snap2It, which have users connect to printer or projector by taking a photo of it with their smartphone, and Impromptu, which accesses apps as needed, such as a public transit app when the user is at a bus stop.

An internet connected alarm clock could converse with an internet connected coffee machine to tell it when to have coffee ready. The current lack of interoperability among devices is an $8 trillion problem, according to McKinsey. McKinsey's  economic value-add forecasts states that if the IoT interoperability problem was solved, the IoT would add $11 trillion in 2020 to the global economy through increased efficiencies, such as savings on energy costs and infrastructure improvements.  

References:

http://www.gizmag.com/carnegie-internet-of-things-google/38430/

http://www.businessinsider.in/Google-is-helping-build-an-Internet-of-Things-campus/articleshow/48060045.cms

http://campustechnology.com/articles/2015/07/13/carnegie-mellon-to-lead-internet-of-things-expedition.aspx?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Education%20Dive%3A%20Higher%20Ed&utm_campaign=Issue%3A%202015-07-14%20Higher%20Ed%20Education%20Dive%20Newsletter

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Google Now as a Repertoire for Education Internet of Things

“We understand more than 100 million places”. “Not just their physical layout and geometry, but also interesting things like when are they busy, when are they open, and what are you likely to need when you’re there.” Aparna  Chennapragada

Google Now seems a more practicable source to effectivize the Internet of Education than  Brillo and the Weave. Google Now may be useful for educators and students. One could ask it a range of questions. One could  also set reminders, put entries in  calendar, look up  information. So seach and plan. 

The answers to queries would be gleaned  from  Google’s Knowledge Graph, a collection of over one billion entities (sports teams, recipes, gas station locations, and   supplied by information housed in third-party apps—apps you have less and less reason to visit as Google Now smartly investigates and reveals). The Knowledge Graph is Google's system for organizing information about millions of well-known "entities": people, places, and organizations in the real world. Google's algorithms cull out and synthesize information about entities from copious  data sources.  

Google Now also offers games to play. So all in all, it should assist fun filled learning. It should develop into creative and immediate learning.

The opening of more than one application on Google Now should assist anywhere any time learning. You can study at your pace.  

Is this the education connectivity platform that we are waiting for? 

Will Brillo Weave an Education Basket?

"Android, polished down… an end-to-end functioning operating system.” Sundar Pichai.

Weave, a communication layer that will enable IoT devices to talk to one another, the cloud, and the  phone.  Weave connects, renders  devices  smarter,  

Will it just help homes or also help education where the multiplier is maximum. ?