Definition of digital ownership, digital data treasure, informationbank, some use cases and a business model
Gábor Kusper · 2014
By digital ownership we mean that we have permission to access and/or use data, information and knowledge about ourselves or about the objects we own.We can also grant or revoke rights on these data.Digital ownership is a layer of Internet of Things (IoT).IoT enables to gather gigabytes of data on a single thing.Digital ownership helps us to gain control on these huge data.One of the pre-requests of digital ownership is that the object must be identifiable uniquely, for example by an EPC code, and the stored data must be accessible.The sum of the stored data about our objects is called digital data treasure.Informationbank is the storage of digital data treasure.An informationbank could be a passive or active actor of the IoT infrastructure.Active informationbanks compete with each other to collect digital data treasure of humans and companies.They make money out of derived data mined from the digital data treasure, but they are not allowed to sell the data treasure, only derived and anonymous data.They also share their income with data sources, like the producer of a product, who submit information about the creation of its products.We also present some use cases which underline how useful the digital owner-ship.* This research was realized with the support of the European Union, co-financed by the European Social Fund within the framework of the project "Internet of things" along the concept TÁMOP-4.2.2.C-11/1/KONV-2012-0014 FutureRFID -Further development of RFID/NFC technology.