Sensor Mania! The Internet of Things, Wearable Computing, Objective Metrics, and the Quantified Self 2.0

By Melanie Swan. J. Sens. Actuator Networks, 2012

763 citations recorded by the source corpus.

The number of devices on the Internet exceeded the number of people on the Internet in 2008, and is estimated to reach 50 billion in 2020. A wide-ranging Internet of Things (IOT) ecosystem is emerging to support the process of connecting real-world objects like buildings, roads, household appliances, and human bodies to the Internet via sensors and microprocessor chips that record and transmit data such as sound waves, temperature, movement, and other variables. The explosion in Internet-connected sensors means that new classes of technical capability and application are being created. More granular 24/7 quantified monitoring is leading to a deeper understanding of the internal and external worlds encountered by humans. New data literacy behaviors such as correlation assessment, anomaly detection, and high-frequency data processing are developing as humans adapt to the different kinds of data flows enabled by the IOT. The IOT ecosystem has four critical functional steps: data creation, information generation, meaning-making, and action-taking. This paper provides a comprehensive review of the current and rapidly emerging ecosystem of the Internet of Things (IOT).

Subfields: Information Systems, Sociology and Political Science, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

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Citations in the corpus

Internet of Things (IoT), Applications and Challenges: A Comprehensive Review (2020, neutral): “1 3 Table 26 Comparative analysis for various aspects, and application domains for the research article Reference Citation Application Area P1 P2 P3 P4 P5 P6 P7 [43] 1 ↓ H LZ PE RT A A [44] 1 ↑ M MZ D SB A A [45] 1 ↓ M HZ PE RT A A [46] 1 ↑ L LZ PE RT A A [47] 1 ⟷ L MZ D SB A A [48] 1 ↑ M LZ D SB A ”
Data Epistemologies, The Coloniality of Power, and Resistance (2019, neutral): “Our digital selves are quantified (Lupton 2015, 2016; Swan 2012, 2013), and our universe of objects and spaces has likewise been transformed into knowledge that fuels capital accumulation and power concentration.”
Quantified sex: a critical analysis of sexual and reproductive self-tracking using apps (2015, neutral): “…technologies and wearable computing with the potential of both ‘small data’ (detailed data one collects about oneself) and ‘big data’ (large masses of aggregated data) will inform lay people and healthcare and public health professionals alike (Smarr 2012; Swan 2012a, 2012b; Topol 2012).”
Conceptualising the future of HRM and technology research (2016, neutral): “But such an appi ﬁ cation of performance management may overlook crucial outcomes like commitment, intention to leave, or social behaviour of employees (Swan, 2012; Weston, 2015).”
Visualized and Interacted Life: Personal Analytics and Engagements with Data Doubles (2014, neutral): “A huge amount of energy is currently invested in developing self-monitoring devices and applications [2] that compete with each other for their role as data centers in people’s lives.”
Internet of Things: Architectures, Protocols, and Applications (2017, neutral): “The Internet ofThings finds various applications in health care, fitness, education, entertainment, social life, energy conservation, environment monitoring, home automation, and transport systems.”
The Rise of Consumer Health Wearables: Promises and Barriers (2016, neutral): “A number of scientific and popular publications describe methods and techniques for using consumer wearables as “self-hacking” devices—to improve sleep, manage stress, or increase productivity [12].”
The Quantified Self: Fundamental Disruption in Big Data Science and Biological Discovery (2013, neutral): “se, Cosm, and the Health Graph API.(39) Figure 3 shows a ‘‘mulitviz’’ display from Sen.”
A Review of Machine Learning and IoT in Smart Transportation (2019, neutral): “In 2008 the number of connected devices surpassed the global population [1] and the number keeps increasing exponentially until today.”
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Secure integration of IoT and Cloud Computing (2018, neutral): “In the first case, some examples of the possible application scenarios in which the new paradigm, that is the Internet of Things, will play a leading role in the near future are domotics, e-health, assisted living, and enhanced learning [3] [4].”