Prof John Davies is Chief Researcher in BT’s Research & Innovation department, where he leads a team focussed on Internet of Things. He has a strong track record of researching and innovating and his current research interests include the application of semantic and Internet of Things technologies to smart cities, smart transport, business intelligence and information integration.
He currently leads BT’s contribution to the Manchester-based CityVerve IoT smart city programme and he co-wrote the Hypercat IoT standard. John has authored over 70 scientific publications and is the inventor of several patents.
He is a Fellow of the British Computer Society and a Chartered Engineer. He holds a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from University of Essex, UK.
Title of presentation: Future Cities: the role of IoT and Semantic Technology
This talk will look at the role of interoperability in maximising the value of IoT data, observing that timely and uniform access to data will be crucial to deliver IoT services and applications. Using the CityVerve smart city IoT project (cityverve.org.uk) as an example, we discuss the requirement for an open data ecosystem and present the Hypercat specification for providing machine-processable data catalogues as a key contributor to interoperability at the data level.
