Put Electronic Imp at the top of the "Technologies to watch" list. Good stuff and great implementation - platform plan.
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"We've put it in a user-installable module. The user buys the card and just plugs it into any device that has a slot," Fiennes explained." All a developer needs to do is add a socket and a 3-pin Atmel ID chip to their product. That's 75 cents: 30 cents for the ID chip and 45 cents for the socket." This assumes the availability of 3.3 V. "But given that most things you want to control from the Internet are electrical, we think that's reasonable," he said. If not, developers can include a battery.
When the $25 card is installed in a slot and powered up, it will find the ID number and automatically transmit the information to Electric Imp’s servers. Fiennes and his colleagues have written a virtual machine that runs under a proprietary embedded operating system on the node and looks for updates of itself on the Internet. SSL encryption is used for data security when transmitted over the link.
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Connecting devices and "things" to the Internet, and managing them through a Cloud Server interface is happening on so many fronts, so quickly, that it's hard to keep track. This list tries to identify those IOT efforts as Open Web platform efforts, or proprietary platform services. Eventually, ...
Updated on May 17, 12
Created on May 17, 12
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