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Research led by at the 神马福利影片 is creating a physical personal digital repository that will record and hold data on both a person鈥檚 digital footprint and the physical patterns of their daily home life.

The repository is owned by the individual (much like money in our banks) and could be used to trade and shape future services and products to individuals.

The Research Councils UK Digital Economy Programme has given 拢1.2 million to a team of business researchers, economists, computing experts and arts academics from six UK universities (Warwick, Exeter, Nottingham, Cambridge, West of England and Edinburgh) to undertake the two-year study project, which will begin in June 2013.

The idea of the project is to enable individuals to own and control a repository of their own personal data by creating a physical digital data vault in the form of a technological device – a HAT (Hub of all Things).

This will be no ordinary digital data repository as it will connect to a range of devices and places in the home to collect data on the patterns of that person鈥檚 daily home life.

The team would then create exemplar new services and business models around the data. Five of the research team will test such a device in their own homes.

The data can then be selectively traded with external parties looking to supply services or products to those individuals, effectively creating a market platform for the exchange of contextual personal data and new products and services that could assist individual lives at home.

However, the researchers will expect the finished HAT to do much more.

The HAT will act as an electronic trust broker between the HAT鈥檚 personal data owner and service and product suppliers, ensuring that personal data cannot be used for any other purposes without consent so that personal data remains an asset to the individual.

The products and services which sit on a HAT have to adhere to a HAT-certified privacy and security infrastructure policy and a 鈥榥o-export鈥� rule on individual data so that it can remain private yet shape those services and products through exchanges.

This is so that many products and services could be created on the HAT, and individuals are also willing to be more visible digitally without fear of their privacy being compromised.

WMG鈥檚 Professor of Marketing & Service Systems Irene Ng said: 鈥淭he HAT project aims to create a multi-sided market platform for connected services and products through the HAT as a home hub powered by the internet-of-things.

鈥淭he HAT would facilitate the creation of new offerings and business models by deriving the relational value of our personal data through connected parts of our lives within the home e.g. linking financial, health or nutrition data or water, energy and our house.

鈥淚t would also facilitate data-for-service exchanges since we may be willing to share our energy use if we get back a service that tells us when energy use could be cheaper.鈥�

In 2014, the project will run a HAT-Fest, inviting software developers, programmers and product designers to come together in a week-long event to generate new services and make new stuff from the algorithms and business models on the HAT.

More details of the HAT project are available here

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Professor Irene NG is available on 02476 574588 or irene dot ng at wmg dot warwick dot ac dot uk

Lisa Barwick, WMG Communications Manager is available on 024 76 524721 or 07824 540845
L dot Barwick at warwick dot ac dot uk

 

Professor Irene NG is available on 02476 574588 or irene dot ng at wmg dot warwick dot ac dot uk

Lisa Barwick, WMG Communications Manager is available on 024 76 524721 or 07824 540845 L dot Barwick at warwick dot ac dot uk