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Thursday 5F Convener: Phil Windley

Notes-taker(s): Phil Windley

Tags for the session - technology discussed/ideas considered:

Discussion notes, key understandings, outstanding questions, observations, and, if appropriate to this discussion: action items, next steps:

Blog Post – A Pico Based Platform for Esproto Sensors http://www.windley.com/archives/2016/05/a_pico-based_platform_for_esproto_sensors.shtml

Demo for ESProto

• Spimes
  • tracking things through space and time
  • Bruce Sterling
• Using picos for collections of things
  • persistent compute object
  • online, event-based,
• Advantages
  • things don’t need smarts, or as much
  • things can be low power (not always on)
  • loosely coupled
  • Each device and each collection get own identity
    • persistent data
    • custom programming
    • API
• Wovyn sensors
  • Wifi
  • ESP8266
  • multiple configurations
  • this is a MSA (temperature, pressure, humidity)
  • POSTs to a customizable URL
• Wovyn and picos are a great combination
  • Picos provide an always on, online persona for the device
  • Picos can be used for collections of devices
  • Each pico can have a unique URL for the sensor to POST to
• Building a spime platform
  • Not just for Wovyn, generalizable to any devices
  • Based on ideas from Fuse Connected Car platform
  • pico prototypes
• Device rules
  • router - changes transducer data POST to meaningful events
    • new_temperature_reading, new_pressure_reading, etc.
  • check_battery
    • battery_level_low
  • device - check thresholds for violations
  • device - manage thresholds
  • device - route violations to all collections
• Collection rules
  • log violations
• Advantages
  • Scales
  • Easy to set up
  • Collections can have custom behavior