Ideas

ideas

controlling your own data

inspired by the philosophy of open protocols and blockchain. Part of who I am is my

• name, address ...
• social network
  • family
  • friends
  • neighbors
  • coworkers, professional contacts
  • facebook, soocial media, meetup
  • people I meet walking the dog
• medical records
• ownership records
• financial records
• purchase history
• searches
• writings

blockchain

Imagine a scenario revolving around iot device owners and the companies providing services to them. Just as GPS gave us a way of discovering and sharing our location, this new protocol would define a simple request: I've got a some devices connected to appliances and I need to operate them online and understand the data from them. A distributed ledger might record all past device data, broker connection, handle security tokens, appliance connections and user applications. The standards for incorporating iot devices into any appliance would be entirely open and anyone who wanted to build an app the for a user or appliance maker would be free to do so. Users could choose to continue with the services provided by the appliance maker or they could open their devices to other companies. Appliance makers could interface with esp8266's or whatever micro works best for them. You wouldn’t have to place your allegiance with a single provider before deciding. You would simply announce that you had this appliance and you wanted to have this kind of functionality.

Early adopters of oiot would would be rewarded with tokens that could be used do buy other oiot appliances or applications. Early adopters of oiot would be rewarded with oiot tokens, which could themselves be used to purchase iot services or be traded on exchanges for traditional currency. oiot appliances would be sold for money and for tokens. A cool app producer might make a lot of tokens.

As oiott began to take off, it would attract speculators, who would put a monetary price on the token and drive even more interest in the protocol by inflating its value, which in turn would attract more developers, appliance producers and customers. If the whole system ends up working as its advocates believe, the result is a more competitive but at the same time more equitable marketplace. Instead of all the economic value being captured by the one or two large corporations that dominate the market, the economic value is distributed across a much wider group: the early developers of oiot, the app creators who make the protocol work in a consumer-friendly form, the early-adopter appliance makers, devicemakers and users, the first wave of speculators. Token economies introduce a strange new set of elements that do not fit the traditional models: instead of creating value by owning something, as in the shareholder equity model, people create value by improving the underlying protocol, either by helping to maintain the ledger (as in Bitcoin mining), or by writing apps atop it, or simply by using the service. The lines between founders, investors and customers are far blurrier than in traditional corporate models; all the incentives are explicitly designed to steer away from winner-take-all outcomes. And yet at the same time, the whole system depends on an initial speculative phase in which outsiders are betting on the token to rise in value."

planned

iot platform

• a way for companies to stay in touch with their customers
• for every thing connected there is the world around that thing to make offers about. A garden watering timer might suggest a permaculture plot, or a particular tomato cage. A heating system app might advetise the latest heating system upgrade
• then there are devices and device kits. A good post top light with a solar panel big enough to charge a wemos, relay and solenoid.
• mesh of devices commununicating all the way to the barbecue
• collectors of data on your house
• free backup service for people rolling their own

other web apps

reddit like site as a forum2 site that builds community by allowing for threaded conversation on ideas with visibility based upon interest and popular support.

microcontroller based

Controller to maintain the water level in the pond.

Create an interface between phone and ip/wifi based controller.

Use the controller to operate the pond water level controller.

Create sensors network that measures temperature in every room and outside. Connect that network to a microcontroller and build an application that operates heating system based upon program. Add motion controllers. Have the interface to the program be a web application.

Use web/microcontroller interface to build a STEM curriculum using IC design as the framework for algebra/geometry/physics curriculuum.

implemented

Shared shopping list mobile app http://www.WeBeShoppin.info README.wiki

Organize a team around a project http://www.SoupTeam.com

Create a wiki to collect research for Bread and Roses Show http://www.ABVbreadAndRoses.info

Education scripts for writing, vocab, reading comprehension.

Online course wikis with accounts for each student's collected materials http://www.pathBoston.com/hum3 hum4 hum2 poets