The #IoT Awards seek to expose and celebrate the year's best projects, companies and ideas helping to create an Internet of Things. The 2012 Internet of Things Awards will take place starting on December 4th and end on December 19th where each of the 9 categories...

The UK Startup Accelerator Springboard today announced the formation of their Internet of Things focused program.The 3 month "accelerator bootcamp" will accept ten of the best early stage UK startups focused on IoT technologies. Participating founders receive guidance from some of the programs mentors (including...

The Technology Strategy Board is the UK’s national innovation agency. Earlier this year they completed their first competition to fund 10 preparatory studies (Project outcomes and presentations can be viewed here) to develop scenarios and strategies designed to "understand more clearly the route towards an open...

In March of 2011, Usman Haque and Ed Borden of Pachube (now Cosm) introduced an "Internet of Things Bill of Rights" via a blog post and corresponding article in Volume Magazine in an attempt to "build up consensus around what we urban citizens should...

The European Commission (EC) issued a press release on April 12th wanting to know "what framework is needed to unleash the potential economic and societal benefits of the IoT, whilst ensuring an adequate level of control of the devices gathering, processing and storing information."The...

Intel Corporation announced today a joint agreement with the Beijing Municipal Government and Institute of Automation of Chinese Academy of Sciences to establish "China Intel Internet of Things" (IoT) Joint Labs to collaborate on IoT-related core technology research, development and business model innovation. The...

In case you missed out, April 9th was Global Internet of Things day an event that Rob van Kranenburg started last year focused on speading the ideas, vision and policies of an open and global IoT. We were kindly asked to team up with...

On June 16th-17th 2012 the Open Internet of Things Assembly was held in London featuring a range of talks and workshops to collaborate and share visions for what an "Open Internet of Things" would look like.Talks were made by: Usman Haque, Adam Greenfield, Rob...

Leaders in low power Wi-Fi and cloud connectivity make it easy to wirelessly connect to the cloud; new solution to be demonstrated at DESIGN West 2012 GainSpan® Corporation a leader in low power Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi connectivity for the Internet of Things,...