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2 great IoT events in Toulouse this week

We have to great IoT events in Toulouse this week!

IoT Toulouse meetup

The recently created IoT Toulouse meetup group will have its first event tomorrow, Tuesday 13.

http://www.meetup.com/IoT-Toulouse/events/177549162/

There are already 50 participants who plan to join, and learn more about the following topics:

  • Using the Arduino to develop IoT solutions
  • MQTT
  • From an Arduino prototype to a first industrial prototype

We will have some cool gadgets too (wireless Arduino shields, robots, …) so the meetup will also be a good opportunity to do some fun hacking 🙂
You still have time to register… see you tomorrow?! 🙂

Internet des Objets – du concept à la pratique

Flyer_IoT_2014-05-15

LAAS and INSA teamed up to organize a great day of conferences and workshops on Thursday 15.
I am especially looking forward to learn more about Eclipse OM2M thanks to the different sessions around it during the day, and also to finally get a chance to experiment with the Intel Galileo boards. Check out the program!

I hope to see you at one of these events, let me know if you plan on attending!

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Turning a toy robot into an IoT device with Eclipse technologies

The Rapiro is a nice open-hardware robot, controlled by an Arduino and a Raspberry Pi.

Earlier this week, I decided that he’d be nice if I could run Eclipse Orion directly on the robot, allowing me to write an app that would bridge the Rapiro to the Internet (there’s a WiFi dongle attached to the RaspberryPi so the robot does have Internet access), using MQTT.

I wrote about my experience in this blog post at Element14, so check it out! If you’re more interested in the final result, you may just want to check out the video below 🙂

Oh, and when I say it’s open-hardware, it really is: the 3D models of all the part of the robot are now on Thingiverse, so you are actually free to 3D-print your own version of the robot!

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New sandbox servers for IoT developers

The most difficult aspect of developing an IoT solution is probably that one has to deal with the –embedded– hardware that will eventually run the application that talks to the sensors, thermostats, car entertainment, etc. Embedded is definitely complex: the resources are limited, the development tooling usually sets you back a decade, etc.

But when you have figured out your hardware, you need your devices to actually “talk” to the cloud. And there comes the not so trivial problem of finding an open and publicly accessible server to talk to. This is why Eclipse IoT has been proposing an MQTT broker an M3DA server for a while. Many people use them for connecting their prototype solutions, before actually moving to a more production-ready environment.

Last week, we deployed two new open IoT servers at iot.eclipse.org.

CoAP server

CoAP is an UDP-based protocol for IoT that mimics the REST paradigm in an IoT context. It provides an elegant and efficient way to do sensors monitoring on very constrained networks.
A CoAP server exposing test resources is now available at coap://iot.eclipse.org:5683 and is open for anyone to interact with, whether it’s for learning more about CoAP key principles, or for actually testing a client implementation against it.

Lightweight M2M

OMA Lightweight M2M aims at proposing standard resources and workflows on top of CoAP for Device Management. The freshly deployed LWM2M sandbox at Eclipse provides a nice way to connect LWM2M capable devices and monitor them using a web UI and REST API.
It runs the Leshan open-source LWM2M server.

If you’re actually interested in learning more about CoAP and LWM2M, you probably want to check out this presentation from Julien Vermillard at EclipseCon 2014.

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