Smart Metering

Manfred Sneps-Sneppe, Anatoly Maximenko, Dmitry Namiot, "On M2M communications standards for smart metering"

The paper discusses M2M communications standards for smart metering. One of the our goals is to show the failures of ETSI standartization process for M2M communications. Our paper proposes some extesions to ETSI standards. At the first hand, it is M-Bus protocol and Open Metering System based on M-Bus. The paper shows how to estimate wireless M-bus throughput and how to avoid collisions. After analysis of Open API for M2M, submitted to ETSI, we propose a new approach in the client-side web development - Web Intents. The main goal for our suggestions is to simplify the development phase for new applications by support asynchronous calls and JSON versus XML for data exchange.

Presented on The INTHITEN (INternet of THings and ITs ENablers) conference.

JS stats

Simple statistics is a JavaScript library that does descriptive statistics, regression, and classification.

PRISM and location sharing

If you want to know just how crazy fear over PRISM-like surveillance has made the Internet, take a look at DuckDuckGo.

DuckDuckGo was launched in 2008 and has since become the foremost search engine for those concerned about not just snooping by the government but Google as well. When visitors search via DuckDuckGo, the search engine doesn’t track them; it just gives them the search results they request. (Like Google, DuckDuckGo does serve contextual ads, which is how it makes its money.) - from here.

PRISM fears are growing. And in this context location sharing is much more important area. So, pay your attention to our WATN approach. It lets you share location info without saving all your data on some centralized (read - PRISM-ed) store. See WATN related info in this blog or our Peer to Peer Location Sharing article, for example.

Smart Cities 2013

We continue to share links for monitoring the interesting events in Twitter. Now it is Smart Cities, London 2013



/via Geo Messages

P.S. and the same in Twi-gazeta:   Smart Cities 2013

Mobile Summit

We continue to share links for monitoring the interesting events in Twitter. Now it is Mobile Summit, SF 2013



/via Geo Messages

P.S. and the same in Twi-gazeta:   Mobile Summit

A new approach for local messaging

Our presentation from WWIC-2013 conference. It is mobile web mashup for passive Wi-Fi monitoring and Cloud Messaging:

Spotique: a New Approach to Local Messaging from Coldbeans Software

New pattern for stock prices

New pattern to predict stock prices, multiplies return by factor 5.

Does it work? Positive memory for stock prices: "I looked at the daily performance the following day (again comparing day-to-day close prices), for companies who ranked either #1 or #500 today. Companies that ranked #1 today also experienced (on average) a boost in stock price the next day. The boost was more substantial for companies experiencing a 7.5% (or more) price increase today. And the return boost on the next day was statistically significant, and quite large."

Never eat alone

It is a popular rule for the networking - never eat alone. And here is an updated version of mobile service for this rule: Never Eat Alone - lets you mark some cafe (restaurant etc.) where you are in right now as well as the time you are going to stay there. This mark (on practice - a mobile page) could be shared via email/twitter/facebook, so your friends are interested in will see your place and time they can join you.

Mobile site: http://nea.linkstore.ru

Short URL: http://bit.ly/e80a3G

Also you can use the following QR-code:

You can use this mashup in your own mobile sites (portals, services). Just set a link to NEA service in your area. The basic URL accepts the following optional parameters:

lat - latitude for search
lng - longitude for search

For example: NEA in Palo Alto

P.S. there is a huge set of related services. For example: Places, Frontplace, City Chat, City Forum, Geo chat и food from Twitter.

Deep Learning with SVM

An interesting paper: Deep Learning using Support Vector Machines To date, deep learning for classi cation using fully connected layers and convolutional layers have almost always used softmax layer objective to learn the lower level parameters. There are exceptions, notably the supervised embedding with nonlinear NCA, and semisupervised deep embedding. In this paper, we propose using multiclass SVM's objective to train deep neural nets for classi fication tasks.

Directory of mashups

Our mashups directory has been updated. A huge collection of applications: Facebook, Twitter, Google Maps, LBS, QR-codes, mobile HTML5 etc.

The latest release includes for example our new mobile mashup Context-aware QR-codes.

Context-aware QR-code reader

QR-code reader lets you submit Wi-Fi info to the target URL: Code Scanner.

Suppose your QR code presents the following URL: http://server/script. This modified QR-code reader lets you automatically add Wi-Fi fingerprints (SSID name, MAC-address and RSSI info) for the each "visible" Wi-Fi network.

It is described in this article: D.Namiot "Network Proximity on Practice: Context-aware Applications and Wi-Fi Proximity", International Journal of Open Information Technologies Vol. 1, N. 3, 2013, pp. 1-4

Big data startups

42 big data startups. It is interesting to discover new and hot directions in big data.