PIT 2014 - Symposium on the Public Internet of Things

The purpose of the symposium is to discuss recent advances in technologies, business models and applications that contribute towards the creation of an open and publically accessible Internet of Things. Many current IoT platforms and deployments are in fact private intra-nets in which data flows and derived real-world knowledge are accessible only to privileged entities. Our goal is to move towards more participatory open eco-systems in which IoT devices and information flows can be freely shared and made available for the greater benefit of society.
On one hand, this can be achieved by the co-creation of the Internet of Things through citizens as they make their own smart objects and devices and corresponding information flows available to an IoT. On the other hand existing and emerging IoT deployment must be encouraged to open up and provide access to their resources for the benefit of society.
This poses a diverse set of challenges along multiple dimensions. Our workshop focuses on the following ones:
Co-creating IoT infrastructures with deep societal penetration through localized or massive crowd-sourcing and breaking open existing walled gardens
Sustaining such infrastructure from a business perspective and incentives for public sharing of IoT infrastructure resources
Disruptive services and applications as drivers and their impact on society
Topics of Interest
The symposium thus elicits novel ideas, scholarly and applied work in the field that provide initial answers to these challenges in three corresponding tracks:
Open IoT infrastructures:
Crowd sourcing mechanisms and platforms to build citizen and community provided IoT infrastructures and facilitate secure and meaningful information sharing
Extending social media platforms and social network paradigms to the IoT
Mechanisms and techniques for automatic discovery of openly available IoT resources
Mechanisms to handle unreliability of crowd-sourced IoT data sources for improved service provisioning
Open publically accessible IoT cloud infrastructures for intelligent information storage and information processing
Open service creation and innovation environments for crowd-sourced IoT resources
Sustainability of open IoT platforms:
What are the business models for deployment and maintenance?
How can people take charge and how to deal with ownership of data?
IoT incentivation/gamification
IoT solving societal challenges and IoT challenging society:
Disruptive IoT services and applications.
Urban planning and decision making tools.
Challenging ownership models (e.g. most EVs are leased or Hilti BM)