IoT on UI5CN Blog

Past few months there has been lots of talks and discussions about Internet of Things(IoT) and its financial impact.Which resulted into a race to create commercial products and services .We are going to showcase top 5 trending commercial applications in the market:

5.Roost 900-00001 Smart Battery for Smoke Alarms

The Roost Smart Battery for smoke alarms transforms your smoke or carbon monoxide alarm into a smart home device – just like that. With the same form factor as a conventional 9-volt battery, the Roost Smart Battery works with existing alarms to upgrade the safety and convenience of your home. This is not your average 9V battery but more than that .

4.Awair: Smart Air Quality Monitor with LED display

Complete your smart home and create an automatic solution loop. Awair plans to work with connected devices such as thermostats, smart watches, fans, and much more in your home to help maintain optimal air quality.This product will be released in the market in mid October this year.

3.August Smart Lock – Keyless Home Entry with Your Smartphone

The August Smart Lock provides intelligent, secure access to your home. Now you can control who can enter and who can’t—without the need for keys or codes. And you can do it all from your smartphone.

2.Philips 798835 Hue Go Personal Wireless Lighting

Philips Hue is your personal wireless lighting. It enables you to create and control light using your smartphone or tablet.It helps you get creative and personalize your lighting to suit your and your family’s lifestyle. Light any moment anywhere with Hue Go – control light your way with this portable Hue light.

1.Dash Button

The idea is “Place it. Press it. Get it”.

Dash Button comes with a reusable adhesive and a hook so you can hang, stick, or place it right where you need it. Keep Dash Button handy in the kitchen, bath, laundry, or anywhere you store your favorite products. When you’re running low, simply press Dash Button, and Amazon quickly delivers household favorites so you can skip the last-minute trip to the store.

So let us know which one you liked.

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Recently there have been many attempts to solve the challenging problem of how to make Internet of Things more easy to work on, for developers. In this article, we will highlight 11 IDE’s which are built to make our job easy while deploying and developing the solution. Most of them are free and already used widely by programmers.

11.Nodeblu

This helps you experiment with the Octoblu and Meshblu (formerly SkyNet.im) IoT by dragging, dropping, and wiring up various nodes connected to the platform!

10.Blockly

Blockly is a library for building visual programming editor.

9.CodeBender

CodeBender is an online code editor for Arduino.

8.VisualMicro

VisualMicro is a versatile and powerful add-in to Microsoft Visual Studio and Atmel Studio which both are based on the Microsoft Visual Studio technology. This documentation is focused solely on Visual Micro itself and does not address the basic concepts of Visual Studio/Atmel Studio.

Programming Arduino with Visual Studio in Visual Micro

7.ModKit

ModKit Drag & Drop Programming you can touch.

6.Zenodys

Zenodys is the easiest way to create a powerful Internet of Things Build IoT in minutes and without any programming. Simple for almost anyone.

5.S4A

S4A s a Scratch modification that allows for simple programming of the Arduino open source hardware platform. It provides new blocks for managing sensors and actuators connected to Arduino. There is also a sensor report board similar to the PicoBoard one.

4.Minibloq

Minibloq is an open source graphical programming environment for Multiplo™, Arduino™, physical computing devices and robots.

3.Ardublock

Ardublock is a graphical programming environment to make programming physical computing with Arduino as easy as drag and drop.

2.Scratch

Scratch is another visual programming platform which very easily leads you to build up your application just with the help of little blocks of logic.

Scratch is a project of the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab

1.Wyliodrin

Wyliodrin is a programming environment for all and is pretty easy to get along with. Raspberry Pi developers would feel at home.

So let us know which one you liked the most.