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KTC Control (www.ktc.se) has developed a really cool new product by using our platform and SDK. This product is defiantly some thing that will bring the evolution forward about control the Smart Grids as well as reduce the total consumption of energy in your building. http://j.mp/qnBeMH

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In any discussion about the cloud, it becomes a concern that as we share more and more on the Internet, control of private information can be more and more at risk. This is because information stored in data centers is not under your control.

When control is in your hands, you are the one that determines whether data is available or not by simply not placing it on accessible devices. When information is stored in large data centers, the responsibility is in the hands of faceless administrators that you don’t know and who have no interest in your personal data.

Don’t get me wrong! There’s a lot to like about the cloud and how the centralized model works today. Examples like Dropbox and other cool, centralized cloud services are fantastic solutions that have changed lives in very effective ways. 

So what do we need to change when we get in to the new era with more than ever personal data on the Internet? The whole model of the computer power infrastructure must change so that the Internet is a distributed solution where the cloud can safely move closer to our lives.

It’s time to think about the cloud more as a network of loosely connected, distributed clouds. As we get into an era with more things about us available on the Internet, we need to demand that sensitive information and connected devices will never live in the centralized cloud.

Distributed Clouds in Internet 3.0 will assure control of sensitive, personal data.

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Collaboration between ABB and KTC offers building owners and managers of energy efficient solutions for all types of energy in a building and Smart Grid. The solution will be powered by Clayster technology

URL: Press release

The big picture is that IoT is the key to a richer integrated community life and a more sustainable planet. IoT is about connecting everything - people, devices and sensors all over the globe. IoT is what enables the full potential of what we now call Smart Grid, Connected Home, Connected Community, Smart Home, Digital Life, etc. Until IoT becomes more realized, we will live on small islands of buzz words and never-ending standardizations. 

The deluge of new sensors and RFID devices opens an entirely new world of services, applications and business opportunities. Things that were science fiction just a couple of years ago are available on your cell phone today. A good example is interacting with our garbage in ways we never imagined - soda cans telling you how they want to be disposed of - waste management companies updating you about your carbon footprint based on what you threw away yesterday. 

If we don’t understand how our lifestyle impacts the planet, we can’t make a change. Direct, real time information is the success factor - direct awareness made possible by getting new sensors into our everyday lives. We can be superheroes but the community has to give us the tools. We need real time environmental information – real time feedback on how our immediate behaviors are affecting fresh water, air pollution and energy consumption. When this kind of information is as common as playing Angry Birds on your smartphone, routine behaviors will begin to change towards the environmentally responsible. 

State of the art is real time. Real time updates and real time interaction regardless of where you are or how you interact. It requires a strong infrastructure. We need reliable, high speed, flexible networks or else IoT will not become a reality. Our network demands will increase and QoS will reach new heights. This will change how operators handle their networks as well as how operators work together with interrelated networking. 

Communities will step out from their walled-gardens to participate in the new markets – the new opportunities available to service developers and provider/operators. A universal distribution venue and reduced compatibility issues will see the open community inventing new killer apps every day. And new business models that include third party service developers will expand the scope of new services exponentially.

By using Claysters SDK and platform has Manodo developed a portal to provide TeliaSonera with Application to make people more aware of their Energy usage as well as other applications that makes life easier. 

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Manodo (www.manodo.com) has developed smart living applications using Clayster SDK which is based on .NET and XML to reach out to users device agnostic. In this video can you see Clayster running a Energy application from Manodo together with a IPTV video stream in the background of the transparent portal.