How the Internet of Things can affect our lives

Assoc Prof Chan Mun Choon from the NUS School of Computing discussed the concept of the Internet of Things and highlighted some interesting applications developed by his research group that could be employed in smartphones. These include an application that performs conversation clustering and builds conversation networks automatically, and another which automatically detects whether the user is idle, waiting for a vehicle or travelling in one.

• TODAY, 19 June 2015, p36