Digitized programming … and still agile!
18. Mai 2015
Building a Smarter Eclipse IoT Greenhouse with Eclipse Vorto, Kura, Californium
27. Januar 2017
Today the Internet of Things (IoT) affects us more than some might know. For example, some cars report their service requirements to the dealers workshop without our knowledge. Then, a friendly phone call later, we know that our car „called home“ that it wants to have new oil or need to change the brakes. And the fundament for the functioning of the IoT is always the skillful interplay of hardware with corresponding sensor technology and distributed software components.
Exactly this is what we were showing as part of the „Brown Bag Lecture“ series at the University of Freiburg. We were unable to drive a car into the auditorium. But the audience was also able to follow our arguments even with a basic IKEA mini greenhouse. The greenhouse was well-equipped with a Raspberry PI, a bunch of sensors and actors and intelligent software made up of Eclipse IoT components, developed with the help of Virtual Developer.
We want to thank our audience and of course the organization team for a successful event. Thank you, Prof. Dr. Giersiepen, for inviting us to give this lecture.
Watch a video at the YouTube channel of the Eclipse Foundation if you want to see and hear more about our smart mini greenhouse and how we developed the software.
The source code of the smart mini greenhouse software can be found here, on Bitbucket.
On these wiki pages, you can find more background information about how we built this IoT solution.
