Another tip from µNews...in episode #5 the host mentions "Google Physical Web"(offset 2:36): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nj8vAcMGEIM#t=155
An article on the same topic: Google's 'Physical Web' project looks to inject Internet of Things with more search http://www.zdnet.com/googles-physical-web-project-looks-to-inject-internet-of-things-with-more-search-7000034320/ A Google UX designer is imagining a Google Now like world for the Internet of Things. A new open standards project by Google called 'Physical Web' aims to make the experience of navigating the Internet of Things (IoT) in the future much like searching the web today. ... ...relying solely on apps to connect with every new IoT device (vending machines or parking meters, for example) will be impractical and he's proposed a more web-like approach "that lets anyone interact with any device at any time" -- much like using a browser and search engine to explore the web, rather than a single purpose app. ... The gist of the idea to create a "discovery service" by giving each smart device a URL that, with the help of Bluetooth Low Energy chips, broadcasts messages to nearby devices in the form of a web page with a snippet of information, a full interactive web page, or a deep link into a native app. Something like this could be a boon to those wanting to integrate IoT devices into a larger home automation system. For example, when Philips designs a smart bulb, they're thinking of it as a stand-alone device (or at best used with other bulbs of the same type), and their focus is only on using that one product, so naturally they gravitate towards creating a proprietary app. If they don't also provide good open, documented APIs, then integrating with a lager system becomes a pain. (Philips may take this next step, but not all IoT vendors will.) So aside from cutting down on the unnecessary "appification" of everything, creating some common standards for talking to IoT devices should have wide benefits, and if Google pushes it, it has a better chance of being widely adopted. -Tom _______________________________________________ Hardwarehacking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/hardwarehacking
