www.pachube.com

www.pachube.com Website (http://www.pachube.com) where users: contribute sensor feeds extract realtime sensor data from other people’s feeds YouTube enables both storing & sharing of videos, Pachube.com stores & shares SENSOR data . enabes direct connections between any two environments or devices AND can also be used to facilitate many-to-many connections center of shared global sensorial “ecosystem” embed sensor data in web-pages: graphs or javascript mini-apps; “blog" sensor data Generalized realtime data-brokerage buildings, interactive devices, virtual environments & blogs “plug in”, "talk" & "respond" to each other like a “patch bay” Uses Extended Environments Markup Language (EEML) protocol describes time-series states of dynamic buildings, devices, webpages, virtual environments fixed physical installations like buildings mobile, trackable objects like phones, vehicles and livestock

Website (http://www.pachube.com) where users:

contribute sensor feeds

extract realtime sensor data from other people’s feeds

YouTube enables both storing & sharing of videos, Pachube.com stores & shares SENSOR data .

enabes direct connections between any two environments or devices AND

can also be used to facilitate many-to-many connections

center of shared global sensorial “ecosystem”

embed sensor data in web-pages: graphs or javascript mini-apps; “blog" sensor data

Generalized realtime data-brokerage

buildings, interactive devices, virtual environments & blogs “plug in”, "talk" & "respond" to each other

like a “patch bay”

Uses Extended Environments Markup Language (EEML) protocol

describes time-series states of dynamic buildings, devices, webpages, virtual environments

fixed physical installations like buildings

mobile, trackable objects like phones, vehicles and livestock

The Service

The Website

The Website

The Website

The Website

Service model Currently beta-testing (approx. 250 signups) Regular & Professional : includes small-scale developers , bloggers, designers and students Organisation : architecture, interaction & product design companies, hardware developers, corporate conglomerates & academic institutions Corporate : large customer bases, and networked service industries Secure : protected, accurate feed auditing; location-tracking of privacy-sensitive objects (e.g. livestock, shipping containers, mobile devices)

Currently beta-testing (approx. 250 signups)

Regular & Professional : includes small-scale developers , bloggers, designers and students

Organisation : architecture, interaction & product design companies, hardware developers, corporate conglomerates & academic institutions

Corporate : large customer bases, and networked service industries

Secure : protected, accurate feed auditing; location-tracking of privacy-sensitive objects (e.g. livestock, shipping containers, mobile devices)

Upcoming features Privacy / groups users-created groups, can assign access to particular feeds Aggregates “ meta-feeds” based on aggregating data from user-defined tags; statistical-function datastreams Continuous history store every data-pointed ever entered Visualisations more user-configurability Consumer devices auto-registration, to enable easy web-connectivity, monitoring, embedding in webpages; buildings post-occupancy evaluation, realtime carbon footprint

Privacy / groups

users-created groups, can assign access to particular feeds

Aggregates

“ meta-feeds” based on aggregating data from user-defined tags; statistical-function datastreams

Continuous history

store every data-pointed ever entered

Visualisations

more user-configurability

Consumer devices

auto-registration, to enable easy web-connectivity, monitoring, embedding in webpages; buildings post-occupancy evaluation, realtime carbon footprint

Consumer device

Consumer device auto-registers

Consumer device

Consumer device

Consumer device

Featured platforms Software Processing, Java, OpenFrameworks, Ruby Hardware CurrentCost, iPhone, Blackberry, Arduino, Zigbee, Weather stations, PachuBox Virtual Second Life, server monitoring, stock prices(!), webscraping Web services Twitter, AMEE, SketchUp / Google Earth Physical Buildings, icebergs, ships, satellites, city water supply

Software

Processing, Java, OpenFrameworks, Ruby

Hardware

CurrentCost, iPhone, Blackberry, Arduino, Zigbee, Weather stations, PachuBox

Virtual

Second Life, server monitoring, stock prices(!), webscraping

Web services

Twitter, AMEE, SketchUp / Google Earth

Physical

Buildings, icebergs, ships, satellites, city water supply

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Appendix: EEML Protocol for sharing data between remote environments makes no distinction between “physical” and “virtual” locations. Several broadly similar protocols and data formats, but EEML’s distinctions are can be applied equally to devices, buildings, websites and virtual environments provides explicitly environmental, locative and temporal contextual meta-data to sensor feeds. Unlike SensorML, EEML can describe wide range of “environments” in single doc: “ environment” of a building at a particular moment in time; “ environment” of a forest as it changes over a number of months; “ environment” of a webpage (structure, implementation, statistics etc). Works alongside IFC (Industry Foundation Classes), a commonly used data format for Building Information Modelling Currently working towards making EEML a global standard Flexible and simple enough that individual developers and non-professionals can use the format in their own smaller devices and projects.

Protocol for sharing data between remote environments

makes no distinction between “physical” and “virtual” locations.

Several broadly similar protocols and data formats, but EEML’s distinctions are

can be applied equally to devices, buildings, websites and virtual environments

provides explicitly environmental, locative and temporal contextual meta-data to sensor feeds.

Unlike SensorML, EEML can describe wide range of “environments” in single doc:

“ environment” of a building at a particular moment in time;

“ environment” of a forest as it changes over a number of months;

“ environment” of a webpage (structure, implementation, statistics etc).

Works alongside IFC (Industry Foundation Classes), a commonly used data format for Building Information Modelling

Currently working towards making EEML a global standard

Flexible and simple enough that individual developers and non-professionals can use the format in their own smaller devices and projects.