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View the recording: This webinar has passed. Members of Engineers Australia can view the recording free on MyPortal. Simply logon and navigate to Technologies > Sensors and Embedded Electronics. Others can purchase the recording on EABooks. Title: Thing One and Thing Two – Myths, Philosophy and Engineering. Presenter: Jon Eggins, Chief Operations Officer, Genesys Electronics Design; Systems Architect, Genesys Products Description: Everyone has heard of the Internet of Things (IOT), but just what is a Thing? This presentation explains why Things are not just sensors but a form of intelligence encapsulation that can dramatically transform business processes around the Thing(s) in question. People new to IOT will benefit from understanding this core element of the broader ecosystem that makes up the range of IOT technologies. For advanced practitioners, misconceptions about Things will we clarified and insights on how to use them to best advantage will be laid out. What you will learn: The paradigms and categories into which Things can be conceptualized Common pitfalls, misconceptions and over-simplifications Thing IO, data and function Thing APIs within an IoT ecosystem Thing-to-Thing communication Thing interoperability A commercial- and productivity-driven approach to Thing designation When: 12 midday AEST (Sydney) on 18 October 2016. The presentation will last 30 minutes followed by question time. Where: The presentation is by webinar. After registering you will be sent details of how to logon. Cost: This presentation is free to members of Engineers Australia (EA), the Australian Computer Society (ACS), the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and IEEE. Just provide your membership number during registration for the event. The cost for non-members is $30. How to register: Please register on the Engineers Australia event system. Note, to register you need to have a free EA ID which you can get on the first screen of the registration page. Take note of your ID number for future events. About the presenter: Jon Eggins is an honors degree-qualified professional electronics engineer by training, and has been involved in electronic product and system development for over 20 years. He has worked for companies such as Philips and Orica, where he was grounded in productivity-driven IoT and M2M system design and deployment. As COO of Genesys Electronics Design, and Systems Architect of Genesys Products, he amalgamates all his experience of electronics and software development into a broad and deep architectural perspective, and headlines development of Genesys’ proprietary IoT hardware and IoT data modeling.