Am Freitag, 13. Februar 2015 12:30:03 UTC+1 schrieb Jan Jongboom: > Hi, > > As you might know we're working on some projects [1,2] in the Firefox OS & > IoT space here in Telenor Digital. So far this has been quite experimental, > but I'd like to know if there are people in Mozilla working on this / > interested in working on this too. I know there was the Monotiles proposal, > but that came from design, and during MozFest I saw the home automation > things KDDI has been developing. Was wondering if there is more interest to > work in this space. > > Main question I have: > > - Do you think Firefox OS has the potential to be a viable IoT platform? > > Unlike the experiments we ran so far, we don't want to re-use phone hardware > to make IoT dev boards, but work with a chipset maker to build an actual IoT > dev board, with GPIO pins, but also with a phone featureset, which would make > it a good competitor to Arduino/RPi/etc. > > Please let me know your thoughts... > > Jan Jongboom > Firefox OS person @ Telenor > > [1] http://ee.telenor.io/about-gonzo/ > [2] http://janos.io
I think IoT is taking more traction this (and next) years. Think of easy configurable washing machines, you just have to tell which clothes are in there using your smartphone. No more selecting "difficult" temperature settings and spending too much water and energy in hope all getting clean enough. ;) And best, you get a push notification if the machine did finish. At the end the machine provides energy and resource consumption data plus some stats so other IoT devices could work with that data. I think the RPi is well suited for developing such IoT applications. It has a huge support community, it is well developed and tested and it's really cheap. And last but not least, there are a lot of "plug-and-play" extensions available. Like screens, I/O boards, aso. Firefox OS (or especially JanOS) is nice for such IoT device, because u can fast prototype, publish and test using the existing Firefox tools. And you can easily create beautiful Device Screens (Interfaces) with just HTML and CSS. So you have a short time from the basic idea to a nice looking and working IoT device you can show someone. So at all, I (personal) think Firefox OS / JanOS on Raspberry Pi is a great idea. There's no need for another development board. Most needed part is full GPIO support. greetings, André _______________________________________________ dev-b2g mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g
