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Interview: Contiki OS Creator On Building the Internet of Things

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the atari-jaguar-power-meter dept.

angry tapir writes "Last year Adam Dunkels, the creator of the open source Contiki operating system, launched a startup to build tools for the 'Internet of Things'. This week his company, Thingsquare, is releasing an evaluation kit that lets people test drive their IoT system. I caught up with him to talk about Thingsquare's plans and the hype around the IoT."

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  1. What IoT is supposed to mean by tepples · · Score: 4, Informative

    The impression I get from reading the featured article is that "Internet of things" refers to giving each electrical appliance a microcontroller to connect to the Internet so that the appliance's owner can manage it remotely. This has applications in street lighting and traffic signal automation, industrial automation, and smart distribution and metering of electric power. So what's a better buzzword for that?

  2. Re:content free summary by drinkypoo · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's not worth clicking the link, because the article is content-free. It gives no specifics beyond names of people and companies. It has no technical information whatsoever.

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