[{"command":"openDialog","selector":"#drupal-modal","settings":null,"data":"\u003Cdiv id=\u0022republish_modal_form\u0022\u003E\u003Cform class=\u0022modal-form-example-modal-form ecl-form\u0022 data-drupal-selector=\u0022modal-form-example-modal-form\u0022 action=\u0022\/en\/article\/modal\/5892\u0022 method=\u0022post\u0022 id=\u0022modal-form-example-modal-form\u0022 accept-charset=\u0022UTF-8\u0022\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHorizon articles can be republished for free under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.\u003C\/p\u003E\n \u003Cp\u003EYou must give appropriate credit. We ask you to do this by:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n 1) Using the original journalist\u0027s byline\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n 2) Linking back to our original story\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n 3) Using the following text in the footer: This article was originally published in \u003Ca href=\u0027#\u0027\u003EHorizon, the EU Research and Innovation magazine\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n \u003Cp\u003ESee our full republication guidelines \u003Ca href=\u0027\/horizon-magazine\/republish-our-stories\u0027\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n \u003Cp\u003EHTML for this article, including the attribution and page view counter, is below:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\u0022js-form-item form-item js-form-type-textarea form-item-body-content js-form-item-body-content ecl-form-group ecl-form-group--text-area form-no-label ecl-u-mv-m\u0022\u003E\n \n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n \u003Ctextarea data-drupal-selector=\u0022edit-body-content\u0022 aria-describedby=\u0022edit-body-content--description\u0022 id=\u0022edit-body-content\u0022 name=\u0022body_content\u0022 rows=\u00225\u0022 cols=\u002260\u0022 class=\u0022form-textarea ecl-text-area\u0022\u003E\u003Ch2\u003ESensors bringing the world to life\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIt\u2019s thanks to a new iteration of the internet that incorporates the physical world, creating an augmented reality of web-connected devices and sensors called the \u2018Internet of Things\u2019.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe idea is being tested out in Santander, where over 18 000 sensors hang from lamp posts and sit in parks and gardens, on the roofs of buses, and embedded in the asphalt covering parking lots, as part of the\u0026nbsp;EU-funded project SmartSantander.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u2018This project has demonstrated the Internet of Things in real conditions, in real life,\u2019 said Professor Jos\u00e9 Manuel Hern\u00e1ndez-Mu\u00f1oz, from phone company\u0026nbsp;Telef\u00f3nica.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPeople can, for example, use the technology to find empty parking spaces with a mobile phone app. It\u2019s also being used to monitor weather conditions and moisture levels, so that the city\u2019s green parks can be irrigated as efficiently as possible.\u003Cblockquote class=\u0022tw-text-center tw-text-blue tw-font-bold tw-text-2xl lg:tw-w-1\/2 tw-border-2 tw-border-blue tw-p-12 tw-my-8 lg:tw-m-12 lg:tw--ml-16 tw-float-left\u0022\u003E\n \u003Cspan class=\u0022tw-text-5xl tw-rotate-180\u0022\u003E\u201c\u003C\/span\u003E\n \u003Cp class=\u0022tw-font-serif tw-italic\u0022\u003E\u2018This project has demonstrated the Internet of Things in real conditions, in real life.\u2019\u003C\/p\u003E\n \u003Cfooter\u003E\n \u003Ccite class=\u0022tw-not-italic tw-font-normal tw-text-sm tw-text-black\u0022\u003EProfessor Jos\u00e9 Manuel Hern\u00e1ndez-Mu\u00f1oz, from phone company Telef\u00f3nica\u003C\/cite\u003E\n \u003C\/footer\u003E\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe project finished at the end of 2013, however the infrastructure will remain at the disposal of the municipal authority, and it hopes to become a model for other cities.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUnlike the internet, which is largely static, or a mobile phone which moves around but connects to a fixed service provider or website in order to complete a task, the new smart devices are intended to be dynamic, \u2018winking\u2019 in and out of connections.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMaking all this work seamlessly will require the Internet of Things to be self-managing, self-repairing, and adaptive, and able to automatically discover new devices as they connect and become available, as well as compensate for devices as they move away and drop off the network.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENeed for stability\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThat\u2019s where projects like the EU-funded IoT.est come in \u2013 it\u2019s working to make sure that devices can function together, giving the Internet of Things the same stability as the web. \u2018What is missing in the Internet of Things,\u2019 said IoT.est project coordinator Professor Klaus Moessner, \u2018is the stability that you have in software architecture.\u2019\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis stability will enable the Internet of Things to include data in real time from any connected sensor or identification tag. It\u2019s a capability that could be applied to food, giving consumers information about where their meal comes from.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe EU-funded ebbits project is doing just that, using the Internet of Things to allow consumers to trace the\u0026nbsp;slice of meat sold to them in a supermarket back to how the animal was raised, what it was fed, where it was slaughtered, and which other people were involved in its processing along the way, by using wireless communication networks and smart home systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u2018We want to achieve an uninterrupted food chain so that you can trace the product you buy in a supermarket back to the farm,\u2019 said Dr Markus Eisenhauer, coordinator of the ebbits project.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe project is developing ways to integrate the Internet of Things into existing company computer networks, for example. 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