Kaspar Lebloch: Harnessing Untapped Potentials in the Internet of Things

Public Lecture Series "Sustainability in Computer Science".
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Speaker:
Kaspar Lebloch, University of Vienna
Abstract:
Today’s smart devices are tomorrow’s paperweights. Particularly Internet of Things (IoT) devices have gained a reputation for being unreliable in their overdependence on mandatory services and their providers. Some consumers actively avoid smart home devices or leave them disconnected due to privacy or reliability concerns. In this lecture, we explore the untapped sustainability potentials in retrofitting existing legacy hardware with open, local IoT technology in different ways and try to envision a path toward a more modular, personalizable, and upgradable IoT.