Pachube: overview @ Homecamp08

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

The Service

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)

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

Consumer device

Consumer device auto-registers

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

Sign up
[email_address]

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.

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