Pachube's Capabilities:

Pachube has a wide range of capabilities ranging from managing realtime sensors and environmental data, to building mobile and web apps allowing users to store and present data.

Users can create graphs and monitor their data, this could be data of energy being used in their home or radiation levels in Japan.

Pachube has no limits as to what can be stored.

How Pachube works:

Pachube works by users inputting their data through devices and applications to the web to store, share and collaborate and make use of data collected worldwide.

Data is stored in various ways such as live graphs, apps and widgets. This creates visual data whereby users can see realtime data which is being updated all the time.

Pachube also has a mobile database app whereby users can both view and input data on the go. This also allows users to , for example, create a live feed of electricity being used in their home and they will be able to view this data from a mobile phone.

Pachube:

Pachube is online database whereby users can store their own realtime data to the web.

Founded in 2007, created by Usman Haque and based in London, Pachube is now used worldwide and manages millions of datapoints per day from individuals, companies and businesses alike.

It allows users to store, share and discover data, whether it be realtime sensor data or energy and environmental data.

Users around the world range from energy consumers controlling costs to farmers and gardeners looking to optimize their crops.

Lecture notes - Intro to Pachube and the Internet of things by Paul Tanner

Internet of things:

Internet: Email > Web > IOT (Internet of Things)
Devices: Mainframe > Mini > PC > IOT
Where people and things are connected

Related Issues:

Open Data
Security and Privacy
Machine Intelligence

IOT Evolution:

Discoverable devices
Devices online
Devices controllable
Devices interperate
Smart Devices

What is Pachube?:

A cloud based aggregation service
An application programming interface (API)

A website based on API:
Search and find data feeds

Create and manage own feeds:
Sensors eg. Thermometers
Actuators eg. control something

Use apps for visualisation and control:
Graphs
Dashboards
(Web and phone etc.)

Key Characteristics:
Open API
Ability to handle volume and data
Searchable
Shareable
Built in privacy controls
Range of data formats
Large number of connected devices
Greater user community

Arduino:

The basic API (Get/Put)

Users can simply plug an arduino board to the internet and get instant input, for example, if the arduino board is plugged into a thermometer, temperature daa would be visible online.
This can also be an important tool as, for example, a user could set up arduino board to a sensor such as a thermometer and could see the temperature of their home by viewing the data on this internet wherever they are.

Examples of usage:

Power monitoring/management
Home automation
Environmental monitoring
Radiation monitoring
General automation