Month: April 2018

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Hubs

Hubs in the Home – or Not

By Bryon Moyer | April 6, 2018 | 0 Comments

[From the last episode: Connections to the cloud aren’t always useful – and they’re occasionally frustrating] Before we look into how the different major IoT players work, there are a few more things we should get under our belts. This week, we talk about hubs. Hubs We’ve talked about the […]

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Abstraction

Abstraction: When Details Don’t Matter

By Bryon Moyer | April 13, 2018 | 0 Comments

[From the last episode: Many home IoT systems will employ a hub to connect all the Things.] In order to understand better why some IoT Things work together while others don’t, and why ecosystems form, we need to delve into the notion of abstraction. Let’s start with the dictionary definition, […]

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House

Deciding Which Details Matter

By Bryon Moyer | April 20, 2018 | 0 Comments

[From the last episode: Abstraction is a way to simplify details.] We’re going to dive into the world of software a little . Hopefully not too nerdy, but what we’re going to talk about is important when thinking about how different IoT devices talk to each other. We saw that […]

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API

Encapsulation, Interfaces, and APIs

By Bryon Moyer | April 20, 2018 | 0 Comments

[From the last episode: There will be many details that don’t matter. In a house example, details of how locks are worked don’t matter when all the door wants to do is order the lock to unlock.] We have taken the example of a house (using a little imagination to […]

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Application layer

The Application Layer

By Bryon Moyer | April 27, 2018 | 0 Comments

[From the last episode: An API provides a way for one programmer to make his or her work accessible to other programmers that want to use the code.] One more thing before we look at the Big 3. We looked before at the communication stack, and we saw that, for […]

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