Hi Niclas, good to know :-) ... and thanks for sharing with us your idea. > I am considering trying to build a business around data capture, aggregation, > analytics and visualization. yes, it seems that many start to play with this now ...
Just for info, since last year I was (and I am currently at spare time) involved trying to setup/start my Startup too in the IoT industry field. >From a technology point of view now I'm more on the JavaScript side (Node.js on the server, and in some cases even on a small device) and Apache Cordova / Ionic for the client (mostly mobile) part. >From what I see there are already many protocols to exchange/handle data even in this field, but many to me seems overkill for simple apps. > Anyone interested to join? I could be interested (but at spare time), you have my email so if you want we can at least exchange more info or do a Conference call. Stay well. Bye, Sandro 2016-02-13 4:58 GMT+01:00 Niclas Hedhman <[email protected]>: > Gang, > > I haven't had much time on Zest lately, as I have been busy creating a > low-costWiFi capable, USB-powered temperature sensor. See > http://hedhman.org/~niclas/IndoorioD.jpg > > And for the fun of it, I ported FORTH programming language to the ESP8266 > CPU that is on this, in Assembler of course. Interpreter, Compiler, base > vocabulary (functions) and REPL in ~1000 assembler instructions, and the > full vocabulary in another 10kbytes or so. It has been a lot of fun. > > This little puppy will go for one more round of prototypes next week, as I > want to add an external watchdog and tiny prototyping area for maker > community. Then I intend to make a field test with 100 units or so. > > So, why am I telling you all this? > > First of all, these guys will report the temperature back to a central > server every 15 minutes or so. And the management system on the server is > written with Zest. The rest is with Grafana and ElasticSearch. I am > considering trying to build a business around data capture, aggregation, > analytics and visualization. Anyone interested to join? > > Secondly, I am looking for volunteers for my field test. It will probably > happen in April or so. If you participate, you will receive a USB powered > sensor as seen. Plug it into power somewhere for 6 months, connect to it > over WiFi, configure it to use your WiFi router over a simple web > interface, and keep it powered for 6 months. > If there are problems, I might ask for reboot. Hopefully not any firmware > upgrades. > > Let me know if you are interested in this. > > > So, as the device design and software is soon coming to a good state, I > will return my focus on the central server, which means that I will get > back to Zest development shortly. It has been far too quite recently. > > > Cheers > -- > Niclas Hedhman, Software Developer > http://zest.apache.org - New Energy for Java
