Your Device needs an API

Matt Haines | Electric Imp@beardedinventor

www.electricimp.com@electricimp

Everything that can be connected,

will be connected.

What doesConnected mean?

The Internet of Things

Web 1.0

Web 2.0

APIs

HTTP, MQTT, CoAP, XMPP, …

The world runs on HTTP

If I can’t cURL it,it’s not connected

Why should we care?

Focus on Service

Iterative Design

Testing

Established Best Practices

Open Systems and Open Data

Repurposability and Extensibility

We don’t know how people are going to use the connected devices we create

We don’t know how other devices are going to use the connected devices we create

We need to give them the tools to experiment and play.

Electric Imp + PubNub Hackathon

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Sept 6IoTHackDay to get $5 off