Hi, Recently I saw Aaron Miller has an Alpha of CouchDB running on Android, which has me very excited about the convergence of these two technologies.
One project where CouchDB on Android could help us would be for the logging of Bluetooth sensor data (such as GPS, and other external sensors, such as Weather). CouchDB is appealing here because of its replication technology; sharing the sensors DB's to other Android Devices in the area and back to base over the mobile network would be great! After reading much about CouchDB, I was wondering if anyone could 'sanity check' the idea of putting raw sensor data into the Database, and then writing views to extract meaningful information from it. Some of the sensor data would be binary, while other stuff such as GPS would be text based NMEA strings. Regardless of the sensor data output type, each raw insertion into the database would be a complete 'sentence' of input, so the views would have something reliable/predictable to work on. The other option is to decode the sensor data prior to insertion, but this doesn't feel as fun! Any comments appreciated, Charlie
