Sensing the Smart City - Christian Nold, UCL- IoT Summit, March 2015

This talk presents a snapshot of a long term ethnography of participatory environmental sensing technologies. The ethnographic approach highlights the complex practices of technological sensing and not just the goals of the technology. Through this research, the Internet of Things emerges as never finished and in a continuous process of being re-designed and re-used by a broad range of stakeholders. Through this journey of being implemented in different contexts, the projects that form around the technology paradoxically gain authority through an ambiguity of what is being sensed.