I'm not sure what to make of this. I read the adafruit blog posting and looked over the site, but there still isn't much practical info. I can only infer from the vague description and the pictures on the site that it'll be a service where you can have your Internet-connected devices send their data, then you can login to the site and see pretty graphs of the data, or perhaps set rules to fire off Tweets or whatnot.
http://open.sen.se/ We rather believe in an Internet of Everything where Humans, Nature, Machines, Objects, Environments, Information, Physical and Virtual spaces all mix up, talk, intertwine, interact, enrich and empower each other in all sorts of ways. This is what we are building and we think that we are not alone. This is why we have created Open.Sen.se an open platform for all those who want to imagine, prototype and test new Devices, Installations, Scenarios, Applications for this globally interconnected and immersive world. Designers, developers, tinkerers, students, hobbyists, R&D departments, artists, self quantifiers, dataviz maniacs, whatever your skills are, we tried to make Open.Sen.se easy to use and yet powerful for you. Needless to say Open.Sen.se is free. Like all trendy new sites, it is in a closed beta. You have to apply for access. It sounds a lot like a services I saw mentioned in a Circuit Cellar article, "Internet-Enabled Home Control" by John Breitenbach. http://circuitcellar.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/CC072012_Breitenbach_ExositeReprintedwPermission_forweb.pdf It talks about http://exosite.com/, which "publishes a set of simple APIs using standard web protocols that enable smart devices to push data to their servers in the cloud in real time. Once the data is in the cloud, events, alerts, and scripts can be created to do different things with the data - in my case, to send me an e-mail and SMS text alert if there is anything wrong with my water heater." The service is aimed at industrial users, but it is free for open source developers. While there are risks in making your device dependent on 3rd party infrastructure, and there are security risks in any sort of Internet connection, by having the device push data, it's a bit better than opening up firewall holes for inbound connections. The big win here for a developer of an embedded device is that you now don't need to put a web server on your device, take up spaces with images, and do web and UI design. Instead you just need to concern yourself with pushing out raw data, and you can deal with the presentation on the 3rd party site. (See the article for a specific illustration of this benefit.) -Tom _______________________________________________ Hardwarehacking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/hardwarehacking
