City Bus Tracking with LoRaWAN – Michelle Brigoli
A chat with Michelle Brigoli about the bus tracking implementation with Microshare IoT technology.
Smart City Part III
A Deep Dive into Smart City: Bus Location Use-Case
By Tamanna Chawla Chopra
In part two of our three-part look at the Smart City, we examined the importance of geo-mapping and explained a bit of how the many obstacles posed by a dense, urban environment can be overcome. In this final post, I’d like to think about sensors, the basic building blocks of Smart Anything, and about the information they collect and the data that they generate. Sensors already deployed around the world have been transmitting reams of data for some time now. This is a component of Big Data, a whole separate topic of discussion. Just collecting data that sensor generation does not make something “smart.” To […]
A Smart City in Practice: Mapping Sensor Location on Google Maps
by Tamanna Chawla Chopra
In Part I of our look at the Smart City, my colleague Steven Brew outlined the basics: What constitutes a Smart City, and what challenges municipalities face in trying to realize the lofty goal of becoming “Smart.” In Part II, we look specifically at what may be the most important building block in this process: mapping.
Mapping allows users and those responsible for a city’s operations and safety to easily visualize location information by plotting the sensor(s) against known landmarks. This can be done for internal and external sensor locations using a variety of map types from street maps, to satellite pictures, to floor plans. For the demonstration purposes, we will review […]
Toward a Sentient Building – Tim Panagos, Microshare
Drop in with Tim Panagos, CTO at Microshare, to discuss the “smarter” IoT building, the “Sentient Building”.
Client-Side HTTP Requests using ScalaDSL
By Tamanna Chawla Chopra
The ability to make HTTP requests is a very common need nowadays since it is often how we need to interact with APIs. Unfortunately, there are few resources out there to guide you on how to use the HTTP client scaladsl library for Akka HTTP to make these requests. I had a hard time finding a good resource on this topic and was struggling to create a simple REST API consumer for our Microshare™ platform. Of course, the scala akka documentation does exist and it is a great reference but sometimes it gets confusing.
Without a clear guide, it is tempting to simply load the Apache HTTPClient Java libraries and follow […]