I love the Internet and the Open Source community! The International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) recently offered a workshop on scientific applications for the Internet of Things and released a downloadable booklet with everything you need to know to deploy wireless sensor networks using the latest IoT technologies.… Read more
Monthly Archives: August 2016
Best Research Paper for Understanding Privacy Risks We Face
Check out one of the best research papers I have come across on the serious risks to our privacy at home and in our retail environments. In February 2016, the Policy and Research Group of the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada has published and released and easy to read and understand paper to help their citizens understand how their privacy will be affected by the “Internet of Things”.… Read more
Low Cost Temperature Monitor and Alert Thing
Below is a dynamic chart of an IoT temperature sensor that I made to monitor the indoors or outdoors temperature at home. I am using a free Android app called “IoT ThingSpeak Monitor” by Wilice. The app allows you to setup a widget to display the temperature and to set lower and upper limit temperature alarm notification triggers.… Read more