Internet of things

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Radio Frequency Identification or RFID involves the use of electronic tags for Identification of objects or things. CIDS has been at the forefront of RFID since 2004 and are represented on the Management Board of the RFID in Europe network and the only Irish core partner in the project.

The term Internet of Things originated from the idea of Radio Frequency Identification Tags (RFID) in every object, allowing these objects to be firstly identified and then possibly located. CIDS is a member of the IoT European Research Cluster and the Future Internet Assembly.

CIDS posses expertise and experience of using machine learning techniques such as Neural Networks and Support Vector Machines in various application domains. These techniques can solve problems that are not easily addressed by traditional modelling.

Reality mining is an upcoming paradigm which involves "the collection and analysis of machine-sensed environmental data pertaining to human social behaviour, with the goal to identify predictable patterns of (future) human behaviour" or in simple words it is the extraction of useful information from real world (sensor) data.

Internet of things

"The Internet of Things refers to uniquely identifiable objects (Things) and their virtual representations in an Internet-alike structure. The term Internet of Things has first been used by Kevin Ashton in 1999. The concept of the Internet of Things has become popular through the Auto-ID Center. Radio-frequency identification (RFID) is often seen as a prerequisite for the Internet of Things. If all objects of daily life were equipped with radio tags, they could be identified and inventoried by computers. However, unique identification of things may be achieved through other means such barcodes or 2D-codes as well."

"Although the idea is simple, its application is difficult. If all objects in the world were equipped with minuscule identifying devices, daily life on our planet could undergo a transformation. Such a system could greatly reduce the chances of a company running out of stock or wasting products, as all involved parties would know exactly which products are required and consumed.[original research?] Mislaid items and physical theft would be affected by the fact that the location of an item would be known at all times."

References: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_of_Things

CIDS to Present 3 Papers at RFID in Europe

The Centre for Innovation in Distributed Systems will present 3 Papers at the RFID in Europe 2011 event taking place in Praque at the end of March. They will present a paper at each of the Academic Conference, SME Conference and at the Government Session.

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