Towards a Human Centric Intelligent Society: Using Cloud and the Web of Everything to Facilitate New Social Infrastructures

摘要

We believe we are witnessing the emergence of a new technology paradigm, one which focuses on the large scale integration and simplification of distributed technologies along with their fundamental realignment around the needs of people and society. The new Human Centric Intelligent Society which results from these changes will connect information from many different sources across the physical and virtual worlds, using the power of integration to achieve new insights and to enact change in ways which are quicker and more context aware than ever before. We believe that this new and more human centric form of technology has the potential to create safer, more comfortable and more prosperous societies, but we still face several challenges, including the difficulties of connecting disparate resources and the complexities of building the ICT systems required to react to the needs of people in real time as they move freely across physical, digital and social spaces. In this work, we briefly review the way in which new devices can be connected to the Web in pursuit of a fully interoperable 'Web of Everything' and summarize the way in which we have extended our cloud platform to seamlessly integrate things alongside people and systems. Once this is done we focus on explaining the way in which these technical foundations can enable the delivery of an innovative and human-centric scenario which transforms something as complex and technically diverse as the emergency response to a cycling accident.