Node-RED is a programming tool developed by IBM for wiring together hardware devices, APIs and online services in new and interesting ways.
It is built on Node.js, taking full advantage of its event-driven, non-blocking model. This makes it ideal to run at the edge of the network on low-cost hardware such as the Raspberry Pi as well as in the cloud.
It provides a browser-based editor that makes it easy to wire together flows using the wide range of nodes in the palette that can be deployed to its runtime in a single-click. Features
Browser-based flow editing
Built on Node.js
Social Development
Node-RED Comes along with the Bluemix IOT Starter Application. Adding IoT Foundation Service with Bluemix allows to use Node-RED. You can use the incoming and outgoing MQTT nodes in your flows. Most of them use Node-RED to define flows where either incoming sensor data from ‘things’ is handled, e.g. stored in databases, or where commands are sent to devices.
In a recent blog post, Google announced a private beta of their Google IoT Core platform. Cloud IoT Core makes it easy to securely connect your globally distributed devices to GCP, centrally manage them and build rich applications by integrating with their data analytics services. Furthermore, all data ingestion, scalability, availability and performance needs are automatically managed for you in GCP style.
When used as part of a broader Google Cloud IoT solution, Cloud IoT Core gives you access to new operational insights that can help your business react to and optimize for change in real time. This advantage has value across multiple industries; for example:
Utilities can monitor, analyze and predict consumer energy usage in real time
Transportation and logistics firms can proactively stage the right vehicles/vessels/aircraft in the right places at the right times
Oil, gas and manufacturing companies can enable intelligent scheduling of equipment maintenance to maximize production and minimize downtime
So, why is this the right time for Cloud IoT Core?
About all the things
Many enterprises that rely on industrial devices such as sensors, conveyor belts, farming equipment, medical equipment and pumps — particularly, globally distributed ones — are struggling to monitor and manage those devices for several reasons:
Operational cost and complexity: The overhead of managing the deployment, maintenance and upgrades for exponentially increasing devices is stifling. And even with a custom solution in place, the resource investments required for necessary IT infrastructure are significant.
Patchwork security: Ensuring world-class, end-to-end security for globally distributed devices is out of reach — or at least not a core competency — for most organizations.
Data fragmentation: Despite the fact that machine-generated data is now an important data source for making good business decisions, the massive amount of data generated by these devices is often stored in silos with a short expiration date, and hence never reaches downstream analytic systems (nor decision makers).
Cloud IoT Core is designed to help resolve these problems by removing risk, complexity and data silos from the device monitoring and management process. Instead, it offers you the ability to more securely connect and manage all your devices as a single global system. Through a single pane of glass you can ingest data generated by all those devices into a responsive data pipeline — and, when combined with other Cloud IoT services, analyze and react to that data in real time.
Key features and benefits
Several key Cloud IoT Core features help you meet these goals, including:
Fast and easy setup and management: Cloud IoT Core lets you connect up to millions of globally dispersed devices into a single system with smooth and even data ingestion ensured under any condition. Devices are registered to your service quickly and easily via the industry-standard MQTT protocol. For Android Things-based devices, firmware updates can be automatic.
Security out-of-the-box: Secure all device data via industry-standard security protocols. (Combine Cloud IoT Core with Android Things for device operating-system security, as well.) Apply Google Cloud IAM roles to devices to control user access in a fine-grained way.
Native integration with analytic services: Ingest all your IoT data so you can manage it as a single system and then easily connect it to our native analytic services (including Google Cloud Dataflow,Google BigQuery and Google Cloud Machine Learning Engine) and partner BI solutions (such as Looker, Qlik, Tableau and Zoomdata). Pinpoint potential problems and uncover solutions using interactive data visualizations, or build rich machine-learning models that reflect how your business works.
Auto-managed infrastructure: All this in the form of a fully-managed, pay-as-you-go GCP service, with no infrastructure for you to deploy, scale or manage.
Have you seen those youtube videos where people keep on falling down after putting this head gear(Oculus Rift) on ! It surely gives us laugh but it creates an interest to experience the same thing.
After seeing many such videos and pranks there has been a lot of curiosity and interest which has risen in for virtual realty.But it is not a overnight success for virtual reality, the technology and concept can be first traced back to 1935.
This picture in which you can see experience of Virtual Reality, is from the story “Pygmalion’s Spectacles” and is recognized as one of the first works of science fiction that entertain virtual reality.After that there were many occurrences of virtual reality which you might have experienced in movies as well.
Virtual reality 1935
If you are familiar with “The last lecture” from Randy Pausch the awesome Virtual Reality professor who gave his last lecture to students of Carnegie Mellon then you might have seen the amazing virtual reality sessions they were used to have and the kind of advancement they already went through in early 2000’s.The excitement and passion of students and professors showed that everyone knew that they were onto something.
Randy Pausch Last lecture
From what we are seeing in industry now, the mainstream software companies and giants are coming into the picture after they saw that the idea seems profitable and have enough attention of people.It is high time to put it into commercial use, the time of creating POC(proof of concept ) is over it is time to deliver something meaningful and beneficial.
Being in tech world for a while, discussions related to new technologies and innovation are not new to me. They happen all the time !
And as a guy who likes to play in bleeding edge technologies, I always want to show my audience the next cool big thing.
As the name suggests, Zero UI is about removing the UI, that is acting as a barrier between the user and the device, in order to provide a more seamless interaction with the technology.
Have a look at this video, you will get a better idea.
This is an example of Microsoft® Kinect for retail.
There are also a few new announcements in this topic, from Google® as well, one under the name Project Soli, which is a radar-based wearable to control anything. Based on the assumption that our hand is the ultimate device for input, Project Soli is developing a new interaction sensor using radar technology. The sensor can track sub-millimeter motions at high speed and accuracy. It fits onto a chip, can be produced at scale and built into small devices and everyday objects.
