daraosn's comments

Two aspects are fundamental regarding this:

1. As a platform, we can take advantage of the network effect. The data we gather from all the users using it, plus the interaction they do when we classify certain patterns can be used to improve our machine learning algorithm. Thus, you as an IoT manufacturer can take advantage of a trained algorithm instead of you developing one from scratch.

2. This network effect brings in another discussion which is privacy and security, we are very aware about this. The data is never shared with third parties and it's only used for training/improving our algorithms, we protect user data, because we know this is a big concern that will surge with IoT in the future. We are planning to implement end-to-end encryption and open-source the core code at some point so you can deploy your own local applications.

We are making a huge effort in keeping things very simple, we want to lower the barriers to entry by offering affordable hardware in two aspects: price and ease to implement-use (plug n play).

All this started over a year ago, we worked on some IoT projects, we realized we needed a platform to make it real, but none of the existing were simple and flexible enough for our needs.

The one project that kickstarted Undercontrol.io was monitoring the temperature of the fish tank we have at home, after some fish died due to an issue with the heater we started monitoring the temperature and receiving alerts when something went wrong. Sure, you can buy fancy sensors, but they are expensive, we already had all the components and the technology from other applications at home. We believe IoT should be accessible for everyone, you have the example of Arduino, Raspberry Pi, NodeMCU and so many others. All of those are very useful developing tools, but we were missing a powerful workshop for creating real applications with all these tools.

From here we want to unleash the potential we believe our idea has, but baby steps first. :-)

Thanks for the props Anton!

- Yes, there are many actors in the market of smart building, we are currently talking with another one, cannot disclosure though.

- We want to have AI in the DNA of our platform, the first stage is collection of data, we can already do that with our platform, now we will focus in developing the first approach of pattern recognition for the data we receive from sensors, so we can identify clusters, then ask the users to tag data to train our classifier, and build from there our machine learning component.

- At the moment, we are focused on the platform. We are staying wide and open to developers and enthusiasts (horizontal approach), we want to be flexible, use open source technologies (currently supporting Arduino and ESP8266, and common sensors and actuators), we will explore some verticals on the way, we hope this approach will help us make the platform bigger.

Hey Anton, don't know if you remember me, we met in a hardware meetup in Berlin some time ago (Diego, drones). :-)

To your question, one example: - detecting anomalies in production lines of industries: we are talking with a potential client that needs to monitor the down-time in their plastic recycling machines. Using the input generated by different sensors, it's possible to detect failures and restart the machines if something fails in the process.

other applications: - monitoring store's product stock in real-time to optimize the restocking process. - energy saving in buildings, industries, homes. - security and health monitoring. - and of course, home automation by providing affordable hardware.

Thanks for sharing, this is very nicely documented.

Funny fact: it can be used as Grass Generator

Exponent: 7 Starting Spread: 35.3 Spread Reduction Constant: 20.5

I'm native Spanish speaker, the problem is at: "grande trabajo"... should be "un gran trabajo", then it would sound legit.

I can confirm, worked on my projects after college, didn't work as expected, but with all the gained experience I found jobs as full stack consultant very easily, and for the last 3 years I saved some bucks. Now from this year I'm working back again on my projects. Carry on Steve, the reward can be big!

Just one concern: are you working with more people? That's the only thing I regret from my ventures back then, I was also solo-preneur, now starting to make teams and delegate more and more, and I think that's the way to go...

Strange. It works okay for me.

Nice project, but IMHO, PHP2JS would be more useful, specially for migrating prehistoric php applications.

Reminds me of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazda_Wankel_engine Good think this seems to be efficient, but I would like that instead they would be putting more focus on improving batteries rather than gas motors.

Forgot to add /s to my comment.

"The basic idea is that instead of using a password to authenticate each user, a temporary secret code is sent to them over a secure channel. "

Secure Channel, like OpenSSL you mean?

I really like node.js, but Ruby gives you way more 'happiness' and productivity, imo. Until I don't see ALL (or at least 80%) of the stack that frameworks like Ruby on Rails have in node.js's frameworks, I will still prefer Ruby over node.js for most of my web projects (of course node.js is sometimes more suitable for certain things, especially asynchronous services, but you can still use Ruby).

Mongo.

You can also access the camera on iOS using HTML5, a bit buggy though: https://github.com/daraosn/Cordova-CanvasCamera, anyways I also second you, native development is always better, imo.

Similar story for 2011 Q1 MBP, it seems like the Graphics are defect for several models and suddenly started to fail for several customers about now... +800 posts, NO RESPONSE AND CENSORSHIP FROM APPLE!! Think twice before buying a new Macbook Pro:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4766577

Same story for 2011 Q1 MBP, it seems like the Graphics are defect for several models and suddenly started to fail for several customers about now... +800 posts, NO RESPONSE FROM APPLE!!

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4766577

What are you talking about? This is the problem of why PHP is still being used, because developers think that Ruby or Python don't allow you to do several stuff you actually can... look at this example (ERB lets you run Ruby code the same way):

  $ cat test.erb
  Hello there! Today = <%=Time.now%>
  $ erb test.erb
  Hello there! Today = Sat Oct 26 16:42:36 +0200 2013

Plus you still need to run PHP over a server (Apache, Nginx, or what so ever), so I don't see so much difference with Rails, Django or Express, except that PHP is an old and stinky language.

Why having this if you have Ruby, Python or even Node.js... and why having PHP at all! all I can think of is dinosaurs and extinction. Move on guys, PHP was cool several years ago, and I enjoyed it a lot, but now it should be buried already and you're trying to create a zombie here.