 Link LoggerPremium,MVM
join:2001-03-29
Calgary, AB
kudos:3
 ·Shaw
| And now for something completely different - ThingSpeak Now that I'm fooling around creating embedded devices (see Gadgeteer »www.netmf.com/gadgeteer ) I'm looking around to see what other people are doing and I came across this which is an interesting idea and a tad difficult to describe
quote:
ThingSpeak is an open source web application and API to manage devices, to create device interactions, and to store data. Users can use the hosted version of ThingSpeak or setup instances on their own servers by getting the source code from GitHub. The technology behind ThingSpeak is Ruby 1.9.2, Rails 3.0, EventMachine, Phusion Passenger, Nginx, and Memcached to form a highly scalable infrastructure for the emerging Internet of Things and its data model requirements.
You use ThingSpeak to Send and Receive “data” via simple HTTP requests, much like going to a web page and filling out a form. Data can be from
anything — Blood Sugar Levels measured by a glucose meter, Server Usage and Uptime reported by servers, or Location Info from a mobile phone. Once the data is in ThingSpeak, you can build applications that retrieve the data, use the data for process decision-making, and reporting.
Perhaps an example is better, so an interesting example would be someone who has placed the live readings from their Radiation Meter online from Tokyo Japan
»thingspeak.com/channels/791
Which is a
quote:
The tube used is a J305BY provided with the cooking-hacks Radiation Sensor Board for Arduino. Conversion factor based on gamma sensibility of GM tube J305BY for Co60 is 65cps/(uR/s)
and you can compare this with someone who has a chart of their radiation meter in San Diego here
»thingspeak.com/channels/390
There is a sample which allows you to control something remotely via Tweeter called Cheerlights
»www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqi28Qcv···embedded
»api.thingspeak.com/channels/1417
which gives you a bit of an idea of the potential of this idea.
Blake
--
Vendor: Author of Link Logger which is a traffic analysis and firewall logging tool |
