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The IoT as Farm Automation

By Bryon Moyer | March 23, 2018 | 0 Comments

[From the last episode: We saw how a single device could help shallow-pocketed farmers improve their farming yields] This time we’re going to stick with farming as an application. But, instead of discussing one device, we’re going to look at a whole farm that’s been automated in the UK, yielding […]

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Cloud

Cloud Frustrations

By Bryon Moyer | March 30, 2018 | 0 Comments

[From the last episode: The Hands-Free Hectare has completely automated the entire lifecycle of a hectare of barley.] This week we have one more random story before we return to our narrative. In this case, it’s about a rant from one of my colleagues. I also write for EE Journal, […]

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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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