I am out and about using an application developed by Vodafone and Sun Labs on my cell phone that pinpoints my location at anytime. My location gets updated every 30 seconds and you can visualize that using the LivePlots from Sensor.Network!
My colleague Vipul.Gupta has putback a cool feature to visualize dynamic map traces of location tracking data. Here is a dynamic map trace of my evening walk around Sunnyvale generated using Sensor.Network
Live plots up to the last minute, of temperature and active power plotted as measured by an EtherWatt device from a conference room on the Sun campus in Menlo Park, California. The first two are simple line charts for temperature and active power and the third one is a combined annotated line chart (all provided by Google javascript API).
Visualization powered by sensor.network.com
Visualization powered by sensor.network.com
Here is a live plot of temperature plotted against pressure for a Nortek Aquadopp sensor. You are NOT looking at a static image file but, visualizing AN UP TO THE LAST SAMPLE data from the sensor using LivePlots from Sensor.Network
I was honored to have been invited to the Software Freedom Week celebrations at BVB College of Engineering and Technology, India. Here are the proceedings of the event: http://softwarefreedomweek.org/2009/
Thanks to Reshma Desai (Sun Campus Ambassador, BVBCET) and Ganesh Hiregoudar (Sun India OSUM Coordinator) for the arrangements
My talk at the Center for Science and Technology in Malaga, Spain to the members of LLSA has been posted here: http://livinglab.iavante.es/?p=32. Thanks to Eloy Rodriquez and Francisco Morero for setting up the event.
I will be speaking on “A New Security Pipe for the WWW“, “Project SunSPOTs” and “Project Yggdrasil” at the Universidad Complutense Madrid on January 29th, 2009. Here are a few links talking about the event:
http://blogs.sun.com/jorgeSanchez/entry/january_29th_sunlabs_university_day1
I will be speaking about Project SunSPOTs and Project Yggdrasil at the FIB Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña in Barcelona, Spain. Here are a few links introducing the event:
http://www.lsi.upc.edu/esdeveniments/sun-spots-an-experimental-technology-from-sun-microsystems
http://www.fib.upc.edu/fib/noticies.html?id=bc9317cf-64c9-4e92-ab5a-3dd629c2611b
The Java Mobile, Media & eMbedded Developer Days Conference better known as JM3DD conference will happen from January 21-23 of 2009 at the Sun Santa Clara campus in California. I will be in Spain at a workshop with our research partners and talking to customers and a few universities. My colleagues Vipul Gupta and possibly Arshan Poursohi will be presenting our latest research project - Project Yggdrasil and the unveiling of sensor.network.com (still Alpha and not up yet).
Yggdrasil: A Data Collection Framework for Sensor Nodes
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As there are more and more networked devices in our environment, there is a need for collecting, managing and visualizing these nodes as well as the massive amounts of data collected by them. Simply collecting all of the data into huge databases is no longer sufficient. We see a need for tools to program and manage the devices as well as for exploring, analyzing and sharing the data. We envision that the sensor nodes could be Sun SPOTs, mobile phones, cars, tennis shoes - you name it. We envision providing a back end to the Internet of things - an Internet of Things Actualized!
Our presentation describes a flexible data collection framework, called Yggdrasil, that takes into account the special characteristics and constraints of wireless sensor networks, e.g. power conservation. It targets applications like environmental monitoring, asset tracking, data center monitoring, security surveillance etc. The framework makes it easy for scientists and other domain experts, that do not necessarily have a strong computer programming background, to create applications that collect sensor data over long periods (months). The framework is being developed in close cooperation with several potential users including the United States Geological Survey (USGS), the Warren Wilson College, the CREA (Conservation Research Education Action ) organization, The Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden as well as some of our Sun Microsystems’ datacenter management teams.
Yggdrasil supports the collection of data from Sun SPOTs through various gateways to a relational database for subsequent analysis and visualization. As we build the system up, we are leveraging the tools we already have for developing with Java and the Sun SPOTs, with the intent that these tools and data analysis will be used with many other embedded nodes, such as cellular phones, parking meters, automobile telemetry etc.
In addition, we are also developing a web-site at sensor.network.com with an open API where all kinds of embedded platforms (not just SPOTs) can post their data and access data posted by others. In essence, this creates an open exchange for sensor data and facilitates the creation of interesting new machine-to-machine applications where one device can act based on sensor information posted by other devices.
Our presentation will also include a brief demonstration of our current prototypes.
Even if you cannot make it in person you can follow the conference online. JM3DD will broadcast all sessions live and worldwide on: http://ustream.tv/sun More information at: http://wiki.java.net/bin/view/Mobileandembedded/DeveloperDays
