• IoT Council: Three Questions on IoT: Karmen Franinovic

    When did you hear first of IoT? In what context was that? Difficult one! I think it was in 2002 in Ivrea – but we used the term connected things (more than 2 things ;), not sure about ItO. I remember brainstorming ideas about distributed urban lighting in my first day in Ivrea, so the… Read More …

  • IoT Council: Three Questions on IoT: Diego Casado-Mansilla

    When did you hear first of IoT? In what context was that? In early 2008, we proposed a bid that was then transformed into a European project called: DiYSe. The objective of the project aimed to enable ordinary people to easily create, set and control applications in their smart living environments as well as in… Read More …

  • IoT Council: Three Questions on IoT: Dalton Oliveira

    When did you hear first of IoT? In what context was that? First time I heard about IoT was when I heard about ABINC (Brazilian IoT Association). Back in 2016. Did you think it was something big then or just another technology? The more I read about IoT (2016), I realized that I had worked… Read More …

  • IoT Council: Three Questions on IoT: Tomaž Vidonja

    When did you hear first of IoT? In what context was that I think it was in 2009/2010 when we were preparing a national project to address new technologies. We created a consortium of public research institutesxand private tech companies joined in a IoT CC – Competence Centre. Based on that we started the international… Read More …


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The IoT Council was kickstarted in Brussels in 2009 as an Internet of Things think tank, news service and silent accelerator for IoT projects.

DISPOSABLE IDENTITIES

A Disposable Identity is a contextual and temporary identity, limited in terms of scope, time, location allowing end users to show specific and limited information or credentials, for example  in order to validate the access control of the building.

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IOTDAY APRIL 9

The IoTday April 9 is a Global Day to celebrate IoT as a baseline for decision making based on real time data.

IoT Council started this initiative in on april 9 in 2010 as a small event by talking about #IoT in local settings (street, apartments, parc).
Since then it has grown into a global event with participation of large Tech and SME.