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Acknowledgements

This free course was written by Lorraine Hudson and Gerd Kortuem. It was funded by MK:Smart which was a £16 milion collaborative smart city initiative partly funded by a grant from the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) and led by The Open University, that developed innovative solutions to support the economic growth of Milton Keynes.

Except for third party materials and otherwise stated in the acknowledgements section, this content is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)] .

The material acknowledged below is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence). Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this course:

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Figure 3 © Bernhard Lang/Gettyimages.co.uk

Figure 6 © pixinoo/istockphoto.com

Figure 7 © PC Plus Magazine/Gettyimages.co.uk

Figure 9 © tatarnikova/istockphoto.com

Figure 10 © Aeriform/Gettyimages.co.uk

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Introduction © The Open University (Assets: King’s College, London/Future Cities Catapult/Open Data Institute/Open Glasgow/British Gas/ClimateSlate)

1.2 What is the internet of things? © The Open University (Assets: Satellite Applications Catapult/http://www.123rf)

2.1 NOx-eating paint and air-quality sensors © Future Cities Catapult

2.3 Smart Citizen Kit © Nesta UK

3.1 Open / shared / closed: the world of data © Open Data Institute, ODI

3.2 Satellite data © Satellite Applications Catapult

Every effort has been made to contact copyright owners. If any have been inadvertently overlooked, the publishers will be pleased to make the necessary arrangements at the first opportunity.

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