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O’Reilly Strata Data Sensing Lab– A Wireless Sensor Networking Success

The Data Sensing Lab at O’Reilly’s Strata Conference in New York was a great success! The team: Alasdair Allan of Babilim Light Industries, Rob Faludi of Digi International, Matt Wood of Amazon Web Services and Brian Jepson and Julie Steele of O’Reilly Media successfully deployed a mesh network of sensors throughout the conference that collected data on light, temperature, humidity, sound and motion. This data will be combined with data sets about utilization of the wireless network, stop-motion video of the rooms and other realtime conference information.

Digi’s part in the lab was to assemble a network of 40 XBee ZigBee radio sensor nodes to carry data gathered on the Arduino microcontroller platform to the Internet via a single ConnectPort X2e running the XBee Internet Gateway. The XIG automatically posts everything to the iDigi Device Cloud, which pushed it along via Amazon Web Services to a team of visualization experts for analysis. The entire system was put together from scratch, including enclosures that were 3D-printed on site, in under a week’s time.

Here’s Rob Faludi’s interview with Mac Slocum talking about Digi’s involvement in the Sensing Lab, the future of M2M and the Internet of Things. As Rob explains, the Data Sensing Lab started as a “grand experiment.”

The initial data release from the Data Sensing Lab is available now. As Alasdair Allan explained, “At the moment it’s just the environmental data, but go do something awesome with it, tell us about it, and we’ll tell the world…”

What’s next? Keep an eye out for a full documentary and workbook from O’Reilly Media on our experience of building and deploying the first Data Sensing Lab at Stata New York. We’ll be sure to share as more data and materials are available! You can also see updates from the whole Data Sensing Lab here on the Google+ Page.

Next Generation ZigBee Smart Energy Gateway and iDigi, Making the World a Greener Place

Have you heard? This week marks the release of the Next Generation ZigBee Smart Energy Gateway, the ConnectPort X2e. You might be wondering, what does this mean for me? For the industry?

The X2e provides a simpler path for innovators to create devices that make our world a greener place– both for homes and businesses. Now these systems can be rolled out to a wide user base while increasing ROI.

“These lower cost gateways provide a faster adoption pathway to the iDigi Device Cloud, which makes building robust energy applications easy,” explains iDigi CTO Joel Young.

The newest addition to the ZigBee family, the ConnectPort X2e, is an economical and enhanced version of the ZigBee Smart Energy gateway. The gateway connects ZigBee Smart Energy devices from a Home Area Network (HAN) to an energy service provider via broadband. Additional memory and processing power for over-the-air updates make it easier to establish and maintain large Smart Energy device deployments.

All Smart Energy gateways feature the iDigi Device Cloud, allowing the devices to easily and securely integrate energy consumption data, such as energy use on a per-home basis, into new and existing applications. The ConnectPort X2e for Smart Energy automatically connects to the iDigi Device Cloud for easy installation and management of connected devices and is programmable in iDigi’s application framework.

The ConnectPort X2e’s additional processing power allows support for more complex local energy efficiency applications, and the increased memory enables support for the impending ZigBee Smart Energy 2.0 standard. The gateway also runs the open platform Linux operating system.

Want to get involved? Interested in making your own smart energy device? Here’s more information on ZigBee.

What energy smart devices and data consumption information would you be interested in seeing?

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O’Reilly Strata Data Sensing Lab– A Wireless Sensor Networking Success

Next Generation ZigBee Smart Energy Gateway and iDigi, Making the World a Greener Place