English | EN Top 10 VINT posts in 2014: #7-#4
Dec 30, 2014
Just like last year, we end the year with a list of the ten most read posts here on the VINT blog. Read about our plans for 2015 together with Sogeti Labs in this post. If you like the blog, you might want to follow us on Twitter or like us on Facebook.
To all our readers, see you next year!
4. WEARABLE COMPUTING: HARDWARE IN ALL SHAPES AT CES 2014 by Thomas van Manen
2014 is expected to be the year of the wearable. If CES is any indication that is. Me and Sander have been quite busy following the wearables trend and our next VINT report, available at the end of this month, dives deeper into this trend and deals with questions on how this will evolve, what to expect on the application side of things and how this might lead to a era of more empathic devices.
5. INDUSTRY 4.0 = (THINGS + INDUSTRIAL INTERNET) X (IT + OT) by Jaap Bloem
In 1784, the mechanical loom marked the start of the First Industrial Revolution: mechanical production, powered by water and steam. The start of the 20th century saw the Second Industrial Revolution: mass production based on the division of labour and powered by electricity. At the beginning of the 1970s, electronics and informatics were the foundation for a, ever increasing automization of production. This was the Third Industrial Revolution. Today, we experience the dawn of a Fourth Industrial Revolution, based on cyber-physical production systems, aka Industry 4.0.
The technology behind Industry 4.0 often is being referred to as the Internet of Things & Services.This evolving hybrid entity functions, if you wish, as the linking pin between the Human Internet of Things and the Industrial Internet of Things aka Industrial Internet.
6. BITCOIN 2.0: IT’S ABOUT THE PLATFORM, NOT THE CURRENCY, STUPID! by Sander Duivestein
Bitcoin is big news. The digital cryptocurrency is on the frontpage of every major newspaper. People compare the bitcoin rage with the tulip mania, they call it a new ponzischeme. The digital valuta is only invented to support criminal activity. But guess what, bitcoin is not about the currency, that is just a small part of the whole story.
The story of bitcoin is complex. In this research paper we hope to explain that the bitcoin currency itself is ‘just’ the next phase in the evolution of money. From dumb to smart money. It’s the underlying platform, the Bitcoin protocol aka Bitcoin 2.0, that holds the real transformative power.
7. MORGAN STANLEY REPORTS ON INTERNET OF THINGS DISRUPTIONS by Menno van Doorn
In a recently published blue paper, Morgen Stanly attempts to quantify the potential impacts of an ‘Internet of Things’ Economy. In their view, it is the pervasive penetration and integration of semiconductors, networking/connectivity, and Big Data/analytics into the real economy. Building upon the previous wave of computing (smartphone/mobile internet) that was driven by vertical integration (Apple) and a move from hardware to software/applications (Google/Android) in the consumer space. Moore’s Law (Bluetooth chips below US1$ and application processors at the US2$ level) and Big Data intelligence are the main drivers of the economic impact.The speed at which disruption will take place depend on the level of intelligence and the leven of standardization, presented in four different scenario’s.
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