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)

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

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 –

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:

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

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

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.

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)

ZigBee Wireless Energy Management Solution reduces energy bill by 37% in first year Swedish industrial company decided to outsource the energy management to a specialist firm, setting the straightforward goals: “Room temperature should be adjusted to a suitable and verified living climate, and what is not needed should be shut

http://193.17.187.195/bop_arup_trial/visualization/arup.html A Flex data visualisation for a WSN trial held at Arup over the summer of 2007. (tags: arup visualization bop)

Home – Doing Business – The World Bank Group The Doing Business project… provides objective measures of business regulations and their enforcement across 178 countries and selected cities at the subnational and regional level. (via Alice Clarke) (tags: business statistics data)

UK monthly and weekly degree day figures The calculation requires daily measurements of maximum and minimum outside air temperatures and a ‘base temperature’ Tbase, nominated by the user as an estimate of the outside air temperature at which no artificial heating (or cooling) is required. (tags: environment degreedays temperature energy

Virtual Water – a double-sided poster visualizing the water footprint of products and nations *The virtual-water content of a product (a commodity, good or service) is the volume of freshwater used to produce the product, measured at the place where the product was actually produced* – useful for other representations

European Future Internet Portal The new web forum to support the European discussions on the Internet of the future is now available. Within FP7, the EU has over 60 projects addressing Future Internet issues. These projects represent a combined investment of over 400 million euros (tags: internet research sensei convergence)