I know that David Lee King at Topeka/Shawnee had been playing with beacons,
as well as John Blyberg at Darien. The LibraryBox Project is also looking
at doing some work on BTLE open beacon tech for ambient findability with
app-enabled smart-things over the summer...

My piece in BoingBoing was more concerned, overall, with centralization of
network power and freedom of communication issues than gadgetry, but if you
all know me, you know I loves me some gadgetry. IoT is only one piece of
that larger puzzle though.

Jason Griffey
Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society
Harvard University

On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 1:19 PM Lisa Rabey <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Thanks so far everyone for the answers that are coming in!
>
> Right now this is for my own curiosity rather than for research / paper
> type thing. I'm just trying to gauge whose doing what/when/how and if there
> are websites or short docs with the info, please feel free to send them
> along!
>
> _lisa
>
> On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 12:49 PM, Kimberly Silk <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi Lisa,
> >
> > There are a few public libraries here in Southern Ontario who are using
> > sensors to monitor patron movement in their libraries; the intent is to
> > understand how patrons are using the library space, whether in-place
> > way-finders are effective, etc.
> >
> > If you want further info, I can put you in touch with the libraries who
> are
> > using them.
> >
> > Kim
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 12:44 PM, Habing, Thomas Gerald <
> > [log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Lisa,
> > >
> > > A researcher, Jim Hahn, at the UIUC Library has been exploring the use
> > the
> > > Estimote location beacons, http://estimote.com/, to provide
> > > location-based recommendations in our Undergrad Library.  His project
> is
> > > briefly described here: http://sif.library.illinois.edu/.
> > >
> > > Jim also tells me that he is working on a paper on the topic for
> Library
> > > Technology Report, "Internet of Things: Mobile Technology and Location
> > > Services in Libraries," scheduled for Volume 53, Number 1 (2017).
> > >
> > > Kind regards,
> > > Tom
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
> Of
> > > Lisa Rabey
> > > Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2016 11:13 AM
> > > To: [log in to unmask]
> > > Subject: [CODE4LIB] Internet of Things
> > >
> > > A month or so ago, I asked on ALA Thing Tank if anyone was using IoT in
> > > their libraries, and if so: what, how, when, where; details man,
> details!
> > > Other than someone asking me what the IoT is (
> > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_of_Things), I got crickets.
> > >
> > > Yesterday Jason Griffey wrote, "How libraries can save the internet of
> > > things from the web's centralized fate" (
> > > https://boingboing.net/2016/03/28/how-libraries-can-save-the-int.html)
> > > and this got me wondering again: Is anyone doing something in library
> > land
> > > with IoT?
> > >
> > > Well, are you?
> > >
> > > _lisa
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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> >
> > "I really didn't realize the librarians were, you know, such a dangerous
> > group. They are subversive. You think they're just sitting there at the
> > desk, all quiet and everything. They're like plotting the revolution,
> man.
> > I wouldn't mess with them."
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