Turning sensors into signals
MIT Media Lab
Oct 15, 2017
📍 Cambridge, MA
Abstract
Talk at MIT Media Lab on turning sensors into signals and freeing IoT from walled gardens.
Key points:
- Humanizing IoT with old smartphones and web technologies
- Using JavaScript to process sensor data on the edge
- Privacy-aware IoT design avoiding cloud dependency
- Open web standards as an alternative to proprietary IoT platforms
- Freeing IoT from walled gardens with open protocols
Takeaway: You don’t need expensive IoT platforms — old smartphones and JavaScript can create privacy-aware, open IoT systems that keep data local.

Authors
Staff Agentic AI Researcher