{"id":1776,"date":"2014-11-10T09:49:34","date_gmt":"2014-11-10T09:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/?p=1776"},"modified":"2014-11-10T10:29:19","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T10:29:19","slug":"news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/news\/","title":{"rendered":"November News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s super busy here and although I don&#8217;t think we&#8217;ll end up with #weeknotes I thought I&#8217;d share what&#8217;s going on.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Research<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;m in New Zealand at the moment on my second week of an Internet of Things Fellowship in Hamilton&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wintec.ac.nz\/research\/Pages\/index.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Wintec Applied Research Institute<\/a>. These guys have a lot of sensor-based client projects especially in the farming sector but I&#8217;m helping them understand the potential of their facilities in other contexts and who they could collaborate with. I&#8217;ve been working with the very talented <a href=\"http:\/\/nz.linkedin.com\/pub\/gert-hattingh\/1\/909\/73\" target=\"_blank\">Gert Hattingh<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/nz.linkedin.com\/in\/marianavanderwalt\" target=\"_blank\">Mariana Van Der Walt<\/a>\u00a0here and bullied them into starting a <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/WintecIDDEPS%20\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter feed<\/a> too.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m also finishing off a piece of research on smart cities for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nominet.org.uk\/who-we-are\/what-we-do\/nominet-rd\" target=\"_blank\">Nominet R&amp;D<\/a> who have been asked by Oxford City Council to look at the local and international landscape to help them develop a relevant strategy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Building communities<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We&#8217;re running a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/makingitwithedison\" target=\"_blank\">Demo Day for Intel&#8217;s new internet of things platform Edison<\/a> on the 28th, it&#8217;s a free event and although it&#8217;s <strong>already sold out<\/strong>, we&#8217;ve put up a waiting list. The day is lead by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcqn.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Adrian McEwen<\/a> our long-standing collaborator in Liverpool. Our experience with these things is that there&#8217;s always some last minute cancellations, so if you&#8217;re interested, sign up! We&#8217;re also looking for an additional sponsor to help cover food on the day (from our friends at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.feast-food.com\/\">Feast<\/a>)\u00a0if you&#8217;re interested, <a href=\"mailto:alex@designswarm.com\">drop me a line<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>We ran the first edition of IOTAngels, <a href=\"http:\/\/iotangels.com\/\">a half day introduction to the internet of things for investors<\/a> last month and our next edition will run on December 16th right before the IOT London Meetup Christmas Showcase.<\/li>\n<li>We&#8217;re also helping ImagoTechMedia to scout out some local talent in the startup community to showcase at an upcoming <a href=\"http:\/\/iotbigdata.com\/Insurance\" target=\"_blank\">Insurance &amp; Internet of Things<\/a> conference\u00a0in London in January. Sign up on <a href=\"www.f6s.com\/insureiot\" target=\"_blank\">F6S<\/a> if you&#8217;d like to show your project to the conference attendees or get in touch with <a href=\"mailto:Jan.Maciejewski@imagotechmedia.com\">Jan<\/a>\u00a0if you&#8217;d like to speak or sponsor the event!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Collaborative projects<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The second edition of <a href=\"http:\/\/makeitconnected.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Connected<\/a>, a quarterly paper publication on the internet of things is out now on sale worldwide. Many thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/restlesseye.com\/archive\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tristam Sparks<\/a>\u00a0an old friend from my Ivrea days\u00a0for joining the team in designing this very professional layout.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Product development<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;ve decided after 2\u00a0years to make a small batch of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodnightlamp.com\" target=\"_blank\">Good Night Lamps<\/a> under the corporate umbrella of design<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">swarm<\/span>. We&#8217;re partnering with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eseye.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Eseye<\/a>, an M2M company we met on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eyehubiot.com\/consortium.html\" target=\"_blank\">Eyehub project<\/a> last year. If you&#8217;re interested in a limited edition of the lamps using walnut veneer, have a look at <a href=\"http:\/\/gnlamp.myshopify.com\" target=\"_blank\">our little secret store<\/a> where we have a few left on our batch of 100 Sets.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Talks<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;ll be speaking and participating in a workshop on accessible internet of things products in Antwerp, an event organised by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diotto.be\/\">DIOTT<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Next year I&#8217;ll be coming States-side (that rarely happens) to contribute to the <a href=\"http:\/\/glsec.softwaregr.org\/\">Great Lakes Software Conference<\/a> in Michigan. If you&#8217;re at either of these come say hi and if you&#8217;re interested in having me speak at an event, you now need to <a href=\"http:\/\/designswarm.com\/speaking\">get in touch with the London Speaker Bureau<\/a> who are now representing me!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s super busy here and although I don&#8217;t think we&#8217;ll end up with #weeknotes I thought I&#8217;d share what&#8217;s going on. Research I&#8217;m in New Zealand at the moment on my second week of an Internet of Things Fellowship in Hamilton&#8217;s Wintec Applied Research Institute. These guys have a lot of sensor-based client projects especially&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/news\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">November News<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"November News at @designswarm #iot http:\/\/wp.me\/p41XhY-sE","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updates","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s41XhY-news","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1776"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1783,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776\/revisions\/1783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}