“like Twitter for sensors”
Scaling the Internet of Things with Open Data
About Me : Software and Data Nerd
Founder @ opensensors.io
@yoditstanton@opensensorsio
Cities are expected to spend $14 Trillion upgrading their infrastructure over the next 20 years : Gigaom
What if these new systems don’t talk to each other?
Chain of data custody between a Local Authority and Devices
“Sensor device > Data Provider > people > DB > people > ETL > people> CSV > public entity> people > ETL> IT Vendor> DW > people > CSV > Sharepoint > Dropbox > and… us !!!”
Open By Default
Open data is data that is made available by organisations, businesses and individuals for anyone to access, use and share.
Open data has to have a licence that says it is open data. Without a licence, the data can’t be reused.
The licence might also say:
that people who use the data must credit whoever is publishing it (this is called attribution)
that people who mix the data with other data have to also release the results as open data (this is called share-alike)
Why open data for the Internet of Things?
Data + Context = Information
Make data accessible and useful
Monitoring Water Quality in Martha’s Vineyard
Logic: Monitoring for EarthQuakeshttps://opensensors.io/orgs/EMSC
Full tutorial: http://blog.opensensors.io/blog/2015/08/14/monitoring-for-earthquakes-with-node-red/
Don’t forget to have some funhackster.io/opensensorsio
Conclusions
The Internet of Things is super exciting■ Experiment and iterate■ Make it so that regular people understand the data■ Solve problems that people care about■ Find and share knowledge with the community■ Open Data FTW
opensensors.io/connectivity further readinghttps://github.com/OpenSensorsIO
@opensensorsio@yoditstanton