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ThingSpeak: an open source "Internet of Things" API

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40 pointsjamesjyu13 comments

Also see: http://www.violet.net/_mirror-give-powers-to-your-objects.ht... (Violet also frequently uses "The Internet of Things" when marketing their products). I wrote a hacker-friendly app for the mir:ror at http://mirlite.heroku.com

Looks cool, maybe we need to make an open source adapter for all of these platforms?

I just found pachube today and I think I like your implementation better. I've been looking for a standard for sensor api interfacing. Just a tip, I scrolled down by accident and noticed you had a news area. Might want to make that more obvious. The way you page looks now it looks like it "ends" before your news

Thanks for the comments, we moved the news section up a bit more. Glad you like our implementation, if you have any feature requests let us know.

Also worth a mention is http://droneos.com With all the craziness coming out of robotics now - and http://DIYDrones.com lowering the barriers of the hardware - this could have some neat applications.

Wow - just think of a net connected drone - maybe a drone with Google Maps on board or pushing air quality stats to a database. That would be an interesting mash up. Also, it's nice to see a HackPGH'er on here.

Yea, exactly. There are a ton of things like that - combined with cheap sensors / cameras + image processing / machine learning you could do tons of stuff:

- StreetView -> DroneView (w/ on demand updates) - News / Traffic / accident remote reporting - Inspection of infrastructure - Small Package Currier Service

PS: Where my Pittsburgh Hackas At?

We built the API to be more like Twitter's API - so geolocation and status updates are built right in and gives raw sensor data more context. My house is completely connected and my things send me status updates. Dig in to the open source API and you can see the differences.

Ok so it took me a couple minutes to understand what this is. Do you have examples of how this is used, what kind of hardware provides networked sensor data? Is there a compatibility list somewhere?

The main hardware that others have used are Arduino, Netduino, and ioBridge. But, you can do more abstract things, like use CURL to send server uptime or embed a web page counter on your website that sends a Growl update or flicker an LED.

Here are some tutorials - http://community.thingspeak.com/tutorials/

Here is a project from me using netduino and jQuery to build a front-end showing updates from my house.

http://iamshadowlord.com/2011/02/thingspeak-building-my-own-...