watson Slap Robin with the ZX Gesture Sensor Every now and again, I run across a sensor that just sounds like fun. Such is the case when I read about the ZX Gesture Sensor from Sparkfun and XYZ Interactive. Put it
watson Your Browser on Watson IoT In my previous blog post, I connected a Particle Photon to Watson IoT. At several points during that post I mentioned the subtleties of device connectivity versus application connectivity, but I did not
iot Particle Photon on Watson IoT IBM has had an IoT platform offering for a while now in various forms. The most recent evolution falls under the Watson brand, and includes device management, and authentication. Marketed as the Watson
iot IoT Weather on Android In a previous post I talked about moving from request-response to using the publish-subscribe pattern. This pattern allows our application parts to listen for changes in a decoupled fashion. This works great with
iot Cloudant Continuous Feed Over the past several examples, new documents in IBM Cloudant have been discovered by continuously polling the database. This is not only inefficient at scale, but creates a tight coupling between our clients
pubsub Publish-Subscribe Everywhere Kaazing Gateway brings many awesome new superpowers to your stack. Among those is the ever-sexy enterprise WebSocket (pioneered at Kaazing) feature. This feature allows you to tap into enterprise messaging systems, and leverage
iot Messaging and the New Web The Widget Company now has two successful devices on the market. WidgetX (LED) has a web server built into it, and is expecting REST operations for control. WidgetY (photocell) has a WebSocket server