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Future of Urban Portsmouth. Really?
Slightly surprised by what I heard. Today I was at an event hosted by University of Portsmouth at the Emirates Spinnaker Tower (quite possibly my favourite UK structure). The event was to kick start a discussion on the future of urban Portsmouth. Prof. Steffen...
Citizens Now Have Consent Part 2
Part 2 - What is happening now… The Business Case is warming up When it came to KnowNow's innovative new consent tool what we needed was a view of the market. We needed to move from a hunch to a viable innovation backed up with evidence. A consequence of being on a...
Citizens Now Have Consent – Part 1
Part 1: The Story So Far For smart cities to be considered a success they will have many different types of services e.g. for health, mobility, energy, and crime. How services are delivered, measured, and valued will be transformed and citizens will now consume...
Ideas to App Store – Get it right 1st time
One story that I frequently hear from our customers is that they have had some problems getting their ideas quickly and efficiently turned into new applications or services. Oftentimes they have had a previous attempt at building the application, only to give up on...
Innovation Workshops with our CTO Chris Cooper
Innovation workshops from KnowNow Does your business see innovation as the way to keep one step ahead of your competitors? Could you use an expert to quickly get you up to speed in the world of Big Data, the Internet of Things, or Industry 4.0? "KnowNow is one of just...
IoT Dollshouse – visualising comfort.
We spent part of last week building a doll house. Are we mad? Our home monitoring solution needed an easy and accessible way for people to visualise the resulting data. Rather than build a set of flashy dashboards we thought we would visualise it in 3D using a...
Flood prediction improvement is possible!
It is amazing how in early December, you wouldn't read any flood news at all - the next week, and ever since, it is almost all that is in the news and our Twitter feeds are awash with alerts, warnings, and heartbreaking stories from those affected. The floods that...
Software development with IBM Cloud
Much of KnowNow's work involves identifying new business value for our customers in their use of data. For example, improving how cities handle environmental emergencies. It can also be helping a new business to bring its idea to life by helping them with Software...
Smart City Design
Smart City Design Our simple mission is to bring smart city data to a useful conclusion, in a safe, secure and sustainable manner. KnowNow provides this design service today to customers globally. How? The world around us is swamped with data. Turning this data...
Action is What Really Counts
Lights, Camera, ACTION Knowing that it is going to flood is one thing. What would be more relevant is being able to do something about it proactively before the situation gets out of control. Flooding is going to happen, no amount of barriers will stop some...
IoT Demonstrators a Go Go
Demo Time KnowNow will be undertaking a mini tour of its IoT demonstrator in September. The story kicks off with an update to the demo we already have showcasing IBM Bluemix at the IoT Lab in Hursley. The demo is a bite-sized version of BeatHouse. We...
Football – data is taking over the game!
Football in times past Vidiprinter from 1992. I was actually at the game where Oxford beat Portsmouth. It was the last game before Pompey played Liverpool in the FA Cup Semi-Final so perhaps the players could be forgiven for an off day. In a more innocent age,...
Security Rules of Thumb from KnowNow
Why do I need security in the first place? Your data is being used by many organisations and yet you have minimal control. Sometimes the data used will benefit you. Sometimes it will be for the benefit of others. The balance is starting to shift in our ever...
Open Data pioneers
KnowNow has been recognised by the Open Data Institute as Open Data pioneers. Our Flood Event Model was developed solely with Open Data sources and still achieves 85% accuracy in predicting where emergency resources should be deployed in during extreme weather...
ComputerWeekly article
KnowNow is one of just a few companies at the forefront of dealing with data in a manner that is suitable to the IoT - Clive Longbottom, July 2015 KnowNow is one of just a few companies at the forefront of dealing with data in a manner that is suitable to the IoT -...