by Guest Blogger | Mar 23, 2017 | Internet of Things (IoT)
OpenFog Answering IoT Security Needs About the author: Doug Laing is the Senior IT Security Consultant at UnitedHealth Group. With plenty of years in IT under his belt, Doug has a wealth of experience in working with uniquely designed networks and devices. In the...
by Chad Towle | Mar 14, 2017 | From The Field, Internet of Things (IoT), Raspberry Pi
IoT as a Diagnostic Tool (Part 1): A Simple IoT Case Study The Internet of Things (IoT) is a huge category that encompasses a wide variety of tools, gadgets, methodologies and systems. While the focus is often on products or package solutions, I'd like to take a...
by Jim Wink | Mar 9, 2017 | Internet of Things (IoT), Web Development
IoT with an ESP8266 (Part 4) – IoT Web Application The IoT web application I planned was fairly simple. It needed to handle a limited set of use cases: Accept data sent from devices Allow devices to be moved to different locations, including newly added...
by Jim Wink | Feb 21, 2017 | Internet of Things (IoT)
IoT with an ESP8266 (Part 3) – ASP.NET Core Project and Database Setup Earlier in 2016 Microsoft had just re-branded ASP.NET 4 to ASP.NET Core 1.0. They had done something similar with Entity Framework 7 and changed the name to Entity Framework Core 1.0. In my...
by Jim Wink | Feb 7, 2017 | Internet of Things (IoT)
IoT with an ESP8266 (Part 2) – Arduino Sketch Programming the Huzzah The Huzzah comes from Adafruit preprogrammed with NodeMCU’s Lua interpreter. You can use this to program the device directly. Or you can do what I did: completely overwrite it, use the Arduino...
by Jim Wink | Jan 31, 2017 | Internet of Things (IoT)
Introduction A while back I created an IoT application that gathers environmental data using an Adafruit Huzzah. The Huzzah is a hobby electronics development board build around the ESP8266 processor from Espressif and it is capable of establishing its own Wi-Fi...
