- Agustin Pelaez
- Electrical engineer from UPB/FH Münster
- Helped engineer a remote monitoring solution for Airbus Germany
- Founded the IoT Application Enablement platform Ubidots.com
- Cameron Klotz
- Joined Ubidots as the Director of Operations
- Graduate of UC Berkeley
- Previously worked in Operations and Project Management at Getaround Inc. and UBS Financial Services
- Always focusing on efficient team/client dynamics and quality assurance
- About Ubidots
- You may have heard us mention them on MEP #88 when Stephen uses Ubidots for his homebrew.
- Difference between their IoT platform and others
- Long tail solution – through app development for engineers
- What can Ubidots do for me?
- How to get started in IoT
- Overview of what IoT actually is
- Devices
- Connection protocol
- Cloud
- Application development
- What makes a device IoT?
- Convergence of digital to physical
- Embedded design
- What is an API and how is it tied into IoT?
- Hardware?
- Stephen’s arduino with temperature control sensor and valve
- Program to send data; Ubidots library; search for existing HTTP libraries, put API token into firmware
- What a payload looks like, what a token is
- Create alerts within Ubidots Designing the app – see your device online, create widgets, email, web hooks, SMS,
- Different ways to display data or act on it
- Exporting data
- Can send data out or pull it in from outside sources
- Supports CSV downloads
- How humans interact with the web and how devices interact with the web
- How do you view the term “Internet of Things”?
- Agustin – It’s a concept, solutions to a problem.
- Cameron -”IoT” is a buzzword, getting hardware to connect to systems, “IoT solutions” get purchased. Gateway to finding solutions
- Stephen – Something that exists today because the idea hasn’t fully coalesced. It’s a buzzword – protoword for what it will become.
- Parker – Data management and analytics, in a single spot. In the cloüd.
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Hosts: Parker Dillmann, Stephen Kraig
Special thanks to whixr over at Tymkrs for the intro and outro!