Agent of Things

Client: Matthew Postgate, Infometa <matthew.postgate@infometa.com>

Many people are concerned that their phone provider (whether Apple, Samsung or Google) effectively controls their whole life, tying them in to an ecosystem of other products and services. This is very different from an earlier age, when the Internet of Things was expected to provide “information appliances” that offered self-contained functionality rather than surveillance capitalism. Your task is to prototype a privacy-preserving digital twin architecture that allows customers to interface in an intelligent way with specific devices (examples in Cambridge might be a smart bicycle with embedded GoPro, or the door lock of your college room), while strictly constraining the way this functionality gets connected to other parts of their digital life.