“like Twitter for sensors”

Scaling the Internet of Things with Open Data

About Me : Software and Data Nerd

Founder @ opensensors.io

@yoditstanton@opensensorsio

Cities are expected to spend $14 Trillion upgrading their infrastructure over the next 20 years : Gigaom

What if these new systems don’t talk to each other?

Chain of data custody between a Local Authority and Devices

“Sensor device > Data Provider > people > DB > people > ETL > people> CSV > public entity> people > ETL> IT Vendor> DW > people > CSV > Sharepoint > Dropbox > and… us !!!”

Open By Default

Open data is data that is made available by organisations, businesses and individuals for anyone to access, use and share.

Open data has to have a licence that says it is open data. Without a licence, the data can’t be reused.

The licence might also say:

that people who use the data must credit whoever is publishing it (this is called attribution)

that people who mix the data with other data have to also release the results as open data (this is called share-alike)

Why open data for the Internet of Things?

Data + Context = Information

Make data accessible and useful

Monitoring Water Quality in Martha’s Vineyard

Logic: Monitoring for EarthQuakeshttps://opensensors.io/orgs/EMSC

Full tutorial: http://blog.opensensors.io/blog/2015/08/14/monitoring-for-earthquakes-with-node-red/

Don’t forget to have some funhackster.io/opensensorsio

Conclusions

The Internet of Things is super exciting■ Experiment and iterate■ Make it so that regular people understand the data■ Solve problems that people care about■ Find and share knowledge with the community■ Open Data FTW

opensensors.io/connectivity further readinghttps://github.com/OpenSensorsIO

@opensensorsio@yoditstanton