IoT devices dont always have an accessible local user interface, resulting in almost zero capability for interaction with them after deployment if they are not connected to the cloud infrastructure that supports them. Unfortunately there are more than a few chances of an unforeseen circumstance occuring where the device needs to be reconfigured. Let’s talk […]
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With its lucrative price and power-packed performance, Espressif’s ESP32 has taken large portions of the IoT space in today’s world of “connected things”. One of the cheapest and most popular hybrid Bluetooth + WiFi chips available in the market even today, four and a half years after its initial release supercedeing its predecessor the ESP8266,
Easy To Use Building Blocks For EPS32 Applications – Network configuration. Read More »
Grafana has long been a favourite of ours for creating stunning visualisations. It’s lightweight, easy to get started with and, over time, has added a lot of new features without losing simplicity. Yet, we have shied from recommending Grafana to our IoT customers over, say, the TICK stack from Influx or ODFE/Kibana. A typical IoT workflow has three
Hands On With AWS IoT, Timestream and Grafana Read More »
A lot of our customers and potentials use or are looking to adopt RFID systems. For technology that’s all around us and has been for a while now, there are still a lot of misconceptions about the available options. This short post is a summary of decision criteria and common use cases. Do I need
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IoT devices can generate a lot of data, and of course there is a natural interest to apply machine learning techniques to look for trends and patterns. Of course, we have plenty of tools up in the cloud, and it is certainly possible to build a solution this way for some use cases. The next
Among the numerous applications that IoT technology has been applied to, there is a large class of applications that need some unique capabilities from their underlying hardware platform in order to enable their construction. We are talking about applications, typically for mobile or widely geographically distributed applications. Examples of these might be sensors for monitoring
Easy to use GSM and GPS building blocks for mobile IoT devices Read More »
Photo by Sora Shimazaki from Pexels Among the more critical building blocks of an IoT solution, and one which should be thought about sooner than later is the concept of over-the-air (OTA) updates to your deployed fleet of devices. This is particularly useful if that deployed fleet is more than a few hundred devices. There
Over-the-air (OTA) updating your IoT system? Plenty to think about before you sign up. Read More »
This post is the third in series on using the AWS ecosystem for IoT applications. Previously, we integrated AWS IoT with Timestream /Quicksight and ElasticSearch/Kibana. Why # Anomaly detection is the foundation for applications such as Predictive Maintenance, which in turn is the driving force behind most industrial IoT deployments. Now that the essentials of sensors, communication, storage and visualisation have
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Background # At IoTReady, we are building a virtual IoT platform to help manufacturers track all of their products – whether these are born smart or not. For instance, a typical workflow we track in the Smart Grid industry looks something like this – A manufacturer produces a batch of, say, an insulation product The manufacturer
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This post continues from our earlier post on AWS IoT, Timestream and Quicksight. We replace Timestream and Quicksight with ElasticSearch and Kibana. Why # ElasticSearch and Kibana are, probably, the most commonly used stack for data analysis and visualisation. ElasticSearch is a notoriously difficult software to host and manage yourself. The managed service from AWS has long been
From Metal To Alerts With AWS IoT, ElasticSearch 7.9 and Kibana Read More »
