The major news items from Cincy IoT May Meetup. Eclipse IoT Working Group Survey Nest Announces Open Source Implementation of Thread Disney Scanner for Asset Tracking Flow is Microsoft's take on IFTTT New Intel Quark Board WISP Module powered by Air Losant Store https://store.losant.com

1. this month in
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Taron Foxworth
@anaptfox
Cincy IoT
May. 12, 2016

2. IOT survey results
https://ianskerrett.wordpress.com/2016/04/14/profile-of-an-iot-developer-results-of-the-iot-developer-survey/
Eclipse IoT Working Group

3. Security continues to be a key
concern.
https://ianskerrett.wordpress.com/2016/04/14/profile-of-an-iot-developer-results-of-the-iot-developer-survey/

4. Top IoT programming languages:
Java, C, JavaScript, Python.
https://ianskerrett.wordpress.com/2016/04/14/profile-of-an-iot-developer-results-of-the-iot-developer-survey/

5. MQTT and HTTP are the
dominant message protocols.
https://ianskerrett.wordpress.com/2016/04/14/profile-of-an-iot-developer-results-of-the-iot-developer-survey/

6. Nest Announces Open Source
Implementation of Thread
https://www.threadgroup.org/
https://github.com/openthread/openthread
- Designed specifically for the home
- Robust self-healing mesh network
- Batter Friendly
- Low Bandwidth
- Designed for low powered systems

7. Disney scanner identifies gadgets
by their electromagnetic field
http://www.engadget.com/2016/05/05/disney-research-em-id/
“ A team of researchers at
Disney's innovation labs found
that every single piece of
technology has its own unique
electromagnetic signal, even if
they're exactly the same make
and model, and built a radio
scanner to read them”
$10 scanner
"improve asset management and inventory tracking."

8. Flow is Microsoft's take on IFTTT
automation (updated)
http://www.engadget.com/2016/04/29/microsoft-flow-ifttt-automation/

9. Intel new Quark board
debuts as a bargain
http://readwrite.com/2016/04/13/intel-announces-quark-developer-board-arduino-pt4/
$15
6-axis compass/
accelerometer, a
temperature sensor,
a USB port,

10. WISP Module
Powered by Air
http://www.fastcodesign.com/3059141/this-battery-free-computer-sucks-power-out-of-thin-air
“…it sucks in radio waves emitted from a
standard, off-the-shelf RFID reader—the
same technology that retail shops use to
deter shoplifters—and converts them into
electricity.”
Battery are hard.
University of Washington's Sensor Lab

11. Losant Store
https://store.losant.com/
DOOR SENSOR KIT - $19.95
MOISTURE SENSOR KIT - $19.95
Promo code: LOSANTMEET

12. this month in
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Taron Foxworth
@anaptfox