Ex-Restaurant Man Erects the ‘Internet of Places’ - Wired

[S. Raj Pandian]

"Observos is a great example of how open source hardware like the Arduino is enabling a new crop of startups. - a sensor box that can monitor the temperature, humidity, and barometric pressure of a space and report that information across the web."

This was precisely the objective of some of the ME Wireless Networks Lab experiments, with use of Arduino for simplicity of use! I hope we can get more UG IT students to work with Arduino + coding.

"Bynoe had taken some programming classes in college and was quite tech savvy, and Lang had an engineering background, but it was the open source hardware movement — particularly the open source, programmable circuit board known as the Arduino — that made Observos possible. “We started with the Arduino because there was such a low barrier to entry to get started,” Bynoe says."

“Arduino provided us an extraordinary platform for testing against, an invaluable repository of preexisting libraries and other code that would have taken an incredible amount of time to write, and a lot of community support,”

The company’s first pilot customer was, fittingly, a restaurant. But they’ve discovered a bigger market: agriculture.

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/06/observos-internet-of-places/

RP

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Dr. S. Raj Pandian
Professor & Head,
Department of Information Technology
Velammal College of Engineering & Technology
Madurai-625 009 (TN)
INDIA
Phone: +91 452 2465289 Ext. 253
Email: s...@vcet.ac.in

URL: http://www.vcet.ac.in/academic/rp_research.html