IoTempire

Story of a University Professor and Teaching IoT the IoTempower Way

Mon, 19 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Ruben has graduated with his PhD on Internet of Things and worked afterwards in the IoT RnD industry. He recently pivoted back to university and started a professorship with IoT focus. He has been an industrial guest lecturer of our IoT class several times and co-authored a book on Story Driven Modeling. As all the teaching material for our IoT course is public and accessible, the newly created videos, the course infrastructure, the framework, and of course the direct access to Ulno made the adoption of the course for his own classroom a very natural and easy choice. In Ruben’s class, it turned out that using a Raspberry Pi for a mobile gateway really helped to get students gathered into small teams around mobile infrastructure and strongly facilitated hands-on lab work. He had to slightly adjust the existing slides and wrapping your head around the flipped classroom ideas was not easy at the start but turned out to be quite welcoming later in the course.

Story of an Austrian Bachelor Student and the Smart Nursing Home

Mon, 19 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Toby was a computer science student at the end of his bachelor program in mobile computing when he decided to enroll in the IoT course at FH OÖ in Austria Linz. He had some prior experience with soldering, electronics, and programming, and he approached the class with an open mind. Working with microcontrollers, sensors, and the Raspberry Pi sounded exciting to him.

Story of an International Master Student and the HarvestMate Smart Planter

Mon, 19 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Let’s follow the story of Karli, an international master’s student from the Institute of Technology at the University of Tartu, Estonia. Karli took our Internet of Things course in the spring of 2023 because of their interest in machine to machine communication.

Survey for Research on Dealing with Unmet Expectations for Smart Home Use

Sat, 27 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000

A fellow academic from Newcastle University (Davit Marikyan) reached out to us to ask for support for their research. If you read our site, please check out and fill out the survey and help with their research:

New Video: 4 Studio, 3 Wireless Headphones, 1 Surprise - Testing quality and could we sleep in them?

Sat, 08 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000

This was a pretty spontanous production inspired by a big clean-up operation by our special camera guy and editor Sylvio from Granmidia. He found lots of headphones used for studio production and thought we could give it a spin and maybe a funny twist here in the IoTempire. I threw in a couple of my own as well as a little surprise, and we were ready to shoot. Unfortunately, it got a little longer than expected, but we think there are still lots of funny moments to explore.

Techunboxing: From Sleepable Headphones to DIY Phone

Sat, 01 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Finally, some time to take a look at all the tech that came in recently. Join me on this little (hopefully entertaining) journey to unpack everything and please share your ideas what you would like to see me build next with all of this.

Going live

Fri, 31 May 2019 00:00:00 +0000

The site has been up in its new layout for a couple of weeks and it has been approved by the council members to be a good starting point. We would need some more images to make the site a bit more attractive, please share your ideas.

Forums and Online Communities

Sat, 04 May 2019 00:00:00 +0000

You can meet us in person and as moderators in several online communities. Please join us, ask questions, organize projects, and spread your ideas. We are looking forward to meeting you.

IoTempire - Mission and Purpose

Tue, 09 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Mission and purpose of the IoTempire

Apart from collecting information and being a central point for people interested in IoT, our goal is to build a community here. Current news and writing now happen on ulno.net’s self-hosted blog — see blog.ulno.net.

Logo and forums, nearing draft

Fri, 05 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000

This shall be our first post here.

Good news, I (ulno) got some time to create some initial content for preparing the launch.

Now, we have our first forums on Facebook and Matrix.org (check communities), we have some mission statement, and even some resources to learn more about IoT.

Arduino IDE

Thu, 04 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000

https://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/Software

Everybody’s favorite when starting to work in the Internet of Things domain seems to be the Arduino-IDE. There is such a huge repository of ready-made software projects that can easily be installed and customized with this IDE makes it the natural choice for lots of hobby projects. However, when deploying multiple nodes of a systems and connecting a huge number of devices, the maintenance of a swarm of devices becomes cumbersome. We suggest, also taking a look at ulnoiot, node-red, PlatformIO and/or Mongoose OS at the point you encounter these requirements.

IoT and Arts

Thu, 04 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000

iotarts

We have observed that arts can facilitate in multiple regards in the space of Internet of Things. Potentially as mitigator, motivator, creative inspiration, bridge between industry and makers, job motor, or source of understanding and experimentation. In this community, we want to especially support people, who combine arts and engineering with artifacts from the Internet of Things, but of course also anybody who enjoys the arts and is willing to support us.

IoTempire: Free and Educational IoT Software

Thu, 04 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000

iotempower

IoTempower was formerly called ulnoiot (You will know IoT).

IoTempower is the brainchild of one of the founding authors (ulno) of IoTempire. It was initially envisioned as a pedagogical tool, but is slowly maturing into a competitive product and gains industrial relevance. Apart from having a strong focus on being easy to teach, it also has a strong focus on privacy and security. It allows to build IoT solutions which don’t collect user data and are very resistant to attacks.

Node-RED

Thu, 04 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000

node-red

Node-RED is used as part of ulnoiot and is perfect for any networking and system integration tasks with an amazingly easy to learn visual interface. ulnoiot augments node-red by an easy way to set-up device nodes (the actual devices interacting with our physical world).

IoTarts workshops

Fri, 01 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0000

arts workshop video from Malu

Maps and Tags for Navigating the IoTempire

Wed, 20 Jun 2018 00:00:00 +0000

There are multiple communities, topics, and interests in our IoTempire. To allow you to retrieve relevant information, our authors are trying to tag and order them by the following tags and taxonomy. You can use any of the emphasized (italic) words as a (hash-)tag to search our articles and pages.

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