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Unlike some people, who find it invasive<\/a>, I love the concept of the Internet of things. I’m truly excited by some of the possibilities that a world driven by data opens up. Sure, there are issues to overcome (primarily around privacy and connectivity) – but anyone who believes their data isn’t already being captured by service providers (even if those providers don’t yet know how to handle the massive volumes of data<\/a>) is in for a shock. So why not embrace the possibilities and use our increasingly smart world<\/a> to our collective advantage?<\/p>\n

In my recent presentation to the BCS Internet Special Interest group<\/a>, I referred to the Technology Strategy Board<\/a>‘s Future Internet Report<\/a>, which talks about [emphasis added by me]:<\/p>\n

“An evolving convergent Internet of things<\/em> and services that is available anywhere, anytime<\/em> as part of an all-pervasive omnipresent socio\u2013economic fabric, made up of converged services, shared data<\/em> and an advanced wireless and fixed<\/em> infrastructure linking people and machines<\/em> to provide advanced services to business and citizens<\/em>.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The report also acknowledges the need for more than just “bigger pipes” to handle the explosion in data volumes. We do need a capable access mechanism but we also need infrastructure for the personalisation of cloud services and for machine to machine (M2M) transactions; and we also need convergence to enable a transformational change in both public and private service delivery.<\/p>\n

That’s the big picture but scaling back down to a personal level, one of my colleagues, David Gentle (@davegentle<\/a> – who happens to be the main author of Fujitsu’s Technology Perspectives<\/a> microsite) highlighted a site called Pachube<\/a> to me last week. I first came across Pachube a few months back but [partly because it used to be a\u00a0chargeable\u00a0service (it became free at the start of this month<\/a>)] it got added to my “list-of-things-to-have-a-better-look-at-one-day” (that day rarely comes, by the way!). This time I had a better look and I found it to be pretty cool.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Pachube is basically a cloud-based broker for connected devices with a web service to manage real-time data and a growing ecosystem of applications to feed and consume data. That sounded like it might need some programming (i.e. could be difficult for me these days) but then I found a method to hook an energy monitor up to the web, with no coding required<\/a>!<\/p>\n

I’ve written before about the EnergyFit (Current Cost) power meter that E-ON sent me. I wasn’t a fan of E-ON’s software so I hooked it up to Google PowerMeter for a while<\/a>, but that service has closed down (along with Microsoft’s Hohm service – which I don’t think even made it to the UK). Using a USB to serial driver and a companion application I now have one of my computers feeding data from my Current Cost meter to the Pachube website, where it gets transformed into JSON, XML or CSV format and “magic” can be performed. I used the Mac OS X software versions of the driver<\/a> and the application<\/a> but there are also Windows (driver<\/a>\/application<\/a>) and Linux (driver<\/a>\/application<\/a>) variants that I have not tested. The process of setting up a Pachube feed has also changed slightly since the original guidance was written but the basic steps are:<\/p>\n

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  1. \"\"Install the USB-serial drivers.<\/li>\n
  2. Install the application<\/li>\n
  3. Run the application and select the appropriate serial port (for me, on my Mac, that is \/dev\/tty.usb-serial).<\/li>\n
  4. Create a feed<\/a> (a push feed – and however many times I turn it private it seems to switch back to public…).<\/li>\n
  5. Paste the XML version of the feed into the application.<\/li>\n
  6. Set up a secure sharing (API) key<\/a> (you probably don’t want to use the master key) and paste it into the application.<\/li>\n
  7. Save preferences and wait for the application to start feeding data, at which point the feed should show as live<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The application I used and the Pachube website seem to work together to configure the datastreams within the feed (one for temperature and one for power) and it’s all set to go.<\/p>\n

    Once the feed is live, there are a load of apps listed on the Pachube website<\/a> with everything from graphs and visualisations to mapping tools and augmented reality. I decided to create a page to display some of these, starting out with a customisable PNG-based graph<\/a> from my feed<\/a>. That worked, so I added another, together with a PachuDial<\/a> and a couple of PachuBlog<\/a> gadgets (sadly, these are Flash-based, so don’t work on the iPad…). Next I created a second feed<\/a> to consume the power usage from the first one and measure the associated carbon footprint<\/a>.<\/p>\n

    Having played around with energy usage, I found that I could also use Pachube to monitor my Twitter account<\/a> (a pull feed this time) – which might be useful too.<\/p>\n

    Now I’ve mastered the basics with my Current Cost meter, I might try some home automation using Arduino<\/a> devices – although that looks to have quite a steep learning curve on the electronics front… In the meantime, you can see the Home electricity usage<\/a> and Twitter statistics<\/a> pages that I created using just the Pachube platform and some basic HTML.<\/p>\n

    [Update 30 November 2011: added comment about Pachube becoming free to use]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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File transfer time calculations There are many bandwidth\/file transfer time calculators out there on the 'net but I found this one particularly easy to work with when trying to assess the likely time to sync some data recently... 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