MEP EP#97: The Internet of Mothers

Podcast Notes

• Agustin Pelaez
  • Electrical engineer from UPB/FH Münster
  • Helped engineer a remote monitoring solution for Airbus Germany
  • Founded the IoT Application Enablement platform Ubidots.com
• Cameron Klotz
  • Joined Ubidots as the Director of Operations
  • Graduate of UC Berkeley
  • Previously worked in Operations and Project Management at Getaround Inc. and UBS Financial Services
  • Always focusing on efficient team/client dynamics and quality assurance
• About Ubidots
  • You may have heard us mention them on MEP #88
  • Difference between their IoT platform and others
  • Long tail solution – through app development for engineers
  • What can Ubidots do for me?
• How to get started in IoT
  • Overview of what IoT actually is
    • Devices
    • Connection protocol
    • Cloud
    • Application development
  • What makes a device IoT?
    • Convergence of digital to physical
    • Embedded design
  • What is an API and how is it tied into IoT?
  • Hardware?
    • Stephen’s arduino with temperature control sensor and valve
    • Program to send data; Ubidots library; search for existing HTTP libraries, put API token into firmware
    • What a payload looks like, what a token is
    • Create alerts within Ubidots Designing the app – see your device online, create widgets, email, web hooks, SMS,
    • Different ways to display data or act on it
  • Exporting data
    • Can send data out or pull it in from outside sources
    • Supports CSV downloads
  • How humans interact with the web and how devices interact with the web
• How do you view the term “Internet of Things”?
  • Agustin – It’s a concept, solutions to a problem.
  • Cameron -”IoT” is a buzzword, getting hardware to connect to systems, “IoT solutions” get purchased. Gateway to finding solutions
  • Stephen – Something that exists today because the idea hasn’t fully coalesced. It’s a buzzword – protoword for what it will become.
  • Parker – Data management and analytics, in a single spot. In the cloüd.

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