The ThingBox Project @ thethingbox.io
I thought I'd introduce a simple to use program tool available on the Pi. I plan to try and tie this into several projects to get a younger audience into the IoT and a simple drag and drop interface seems a great place to start. Along with their sample projects to show working examples. I think it could help get quite a few started in the IoT field.
Install Internet Of Things technologies on a Raspberry-Pi
without any technical knowledge and for free.
TheThingBox provides the Internet of Thing technologies ready and easy to use.
Is it for me? I'm not an electronic engineer...
For non technical people, this site provides a one-step easy install of a graphical interface that allows to deal with the Internet of Things.
You already own the most important connected object: your smartphone. The first examples uses only it so you don't need anything else.
Just after flashing the Raspberry Pi by following simple steps, you can run into a provided example that gets the live UK total electricity consumption from the internet and sends it to a twitter account!
Why the Raspberry Pi?
You need a full time running computer. And it cannot be in the cloud since it should be near the things you want to manage. Although a usual computer can be used for this, many people rather use the tiny easy to afford Raspberry-Pi.
Well that's the introduction to the Software please feel free to comment and let me know what you think about it or how you could deploy it in your work.
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