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Assembly Guide Part 3: Radiation Shield

Assembly Guide Part 3: Radiation Shield

This is Part 3 of the three-part series: MAKE-YOUR-OWN Sensor Workshop Assembly Guide. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install the radiation shield for the MAKE-YOUR-OWN Sensor Workshop. If you would like to know more information about the workshop, please visit https://smartcities.sensorup.com/.

Assembly Guide Part 2: WiFi Connection

Assembly Guide Part 2: WiFi Connection

This is Part 2 of the three-part series: MAKE-YOUR-OWN Sensor Workshop Assembly Guide. In this tutorial, we will show you how to connect the device to the WiFi for the MAKE-YOUR-OWN Sensor Workshop. If you would like to know more information about the workshop, please visit https://smartcities.sensorup.com/.

Assembly Guide Part 1: Plug in the sensors

Assembly Guide Part 1: Plug in the sensors

This is Part 1 of the three-part series: MAKE-YOUR-OWN Sensor Workshop Assembly Guide. In this tutorial, we will show you how to prepare the sensors for the MAKE-YOUR-OWN Sensor Workshop. If you would like to know more information about the workshop, please visit https://smartcities.sensorup.com/.

SensorThings API - Getting Started with MQTT

SensorThings API - Getting Started with MQTT

MQTT or MQ Telemetry Transport, is a light-weight messaging protocol designed for IoT devices. In addition to support HTTP protocol, SensorThings API supports MQTT protocol to enhance the SensorThings service publish and subscribe capabilities. In this tutorial we will learn how to receive notification for entity updates as well as how to create Observation using MQTT.

Raspberry Pi: Connect to SensorUp SensorThings

Raspberry Pi: Connect to SensorUp SensorThings

The Raspberry Pi is a tiny and affordable computer that you can use to learn programming through fun, practical projects. This is a simple tutorial of connecting Raspberry Pi to OGC SensorThings API. We will show you how to use Raspberry Pi to upload temperature readings to the SensorThings API server.

ARM mbed LPC1768: Connect to SensorUp SensorThings

ARM mbed LPC1768: Connect to SensorUp SensorThings

The mbed NXP LPC1768 Microcontroller in particular is designed for prototyping all sorts of devices, especially those including Ethernet, USB, and the flexibility of lots of peripheral interfaces and FLASH memory. This is a simple tutorial of connecting ARM mbed LPC1768 to OGC SensorThings API. We will show you how to use mbed to upload temperature readings to the SensorUp SensorThings Playground.

Arduino 101: Connect to SensorUp SensorThings API

Arduino 101: Connect to SensorUp SensorThings API

The Arduino 101 is a learning and development board that delivers the performance and low-power consumption of the Intel® Curie module with the simplicity of Arduino at an entry-level price. This is a simple tutorial of connecting an Arduino Ethernet board to OGC SensorThings API.

Linklt One: Connect to SensorUp SensorThings

Linklt One: Connect to SensorUp SensorThings

Linklt One is a popular IoT development board for prototyping IoT applications. Costing only $59, it offers great value and versatility by combining GPS, GPRS (2.5G), Bluetooth and Wi-Fi in a single board. This tutorial shows using an open standard-compliant approach to connect Linklt One and the SensorUp SensorThings Playground.

SensorUp SensorThings: Real-Time Gauge

SensorUp SensorThings: Real-Time Gauge

This is a tutorial about how to show a Hightchart Real-Time Gauge from OGC SensorThing API Datastreams.

Mapping

Mapping

One of the entities in SensorThings is the Location, which is used to indicate (unsurpisingly) the location of things in the system. In this tutorial, we're going to focus on how we can retrieve Locations from SensorThings, and display them in a map.

Graphs and Gauges

Graphs and Gauges

One of the entities in SensorThings is the Observation, which is used to store Sensor observations/readings.In this tutorial, we're going to focus on how we can retrieve Observations from SensorThings, and display them in a chart.

Open Data for Business: Open Smart Cities Data

Open Data for Business: Open Smart Cities Data

Dr. Steve Liang explain the Internet of Things (IoT), providing illustrative examples, and underlining the importance of open standards. The relationship between IoT and open data is explored.

Open Internet of Things for Smart Cities

Open Internet of Things for Smart Cities

Dr. Steve Liang explains why open standards are so important to the development of Smart Cities. He illustrates with an example application developed by SensorUp: the Smart Citizens for Smart Communities initiative.

Build Interoperable Smart City Applications Effortlessly

Build Interoperable Smart City Applications Effortlessly

This webinar will be a hands-on tutorial to use SensorThings API SDKs (e.g., SensorThings Arduino SDK, SensorThings Charts, SensorThings Maps, etc.) and develop an end-to-end smart city application with minimum coding efforts.

Analyze Your Smart City : Build Sensor Analytics With OGC SensorThings API

Analyze Your Smart City : Build Sensor Analytics With OGC SensorThings API

This webinar will be a hands-on tutorial to develop a sensor analytics application using the SensorThings API. SensorThings API offers a rich set of query functions that can be the basis for analytics. This tutorial will uncover these query functions.

Visualize Your Smart City: Build A Real:Time Smart City Dashboard For OGC SensorThings API

Visualize Your Smart City: Build A Real:Time Smart City Dashboard For OGC SensorThings API

This webinar will be a hands-on tutorial demonstrating the steps to construct a real-time smart city dashboard. The dashboard will use OGC SensorThings API as the data source.

Sense Your Smart City: Connect Environmental Sensors To OGC SensorThings API

Sense Your Smart City: Connect Environmental Sensors To OGC SensorThings API

This webinar will be a hands-on tutorial showing you the steps connecting environmental sensors for your smart city application using the OGC SensorThings API standard specifications.

CSVs To SensorThings In 10 Min

CSVs To SensorThings In 10 Min

Environmental monitoring as the use case. Only need a few lines of shell scripts. Open standards and OGC SensorThings API.

SensorThings And MQTT

SensorThings And MQTT

Introduction to MQTT and SensorThings MQTT Extension. Examples of SensorThings MQTT publish and subscribe. Demonstration of SensorThings MQTT.

Comparison Between OGC Sensor Observation Service And SensorThings API

Comparison Between OGC Sensor Observation Service And SensorThings API

In-depth analysis of differences between OGC SOS and SensorThings Design rationale of SensorThings (i.e., why use a different approach than SOS?)

Citizen Sensing With SensorThings

Citizen Sensing With SensorThings

Explore this practical use case, and see how it maps elegantly to SensorThings entities. Case study: Arctic Citizen Sensors.

OGC SensorThings: IoT Data Interoperability With A GeoWeb Approach

OGC SensorThings: IoT Data Interoperability With A GeoWeb Approach

Dr. Steve Liang explained why intelligent location capability is so critical to IoT data. Most importantly, he explained why interoperability is critical to unleashing the real power of global IoT, and why open standards are key to interoperability.

Connect Sensors to SensorThings API - CREATE, UPDATE, DELETE

Connect Sensors to SensorThings API - CREATE, UPDATE, DELETE

Dr. Steve Liang explains how to register new sensors, observations, things and other entities in SensorThings. A live demo shows the process in detail, including REST calls using postman.

RESTful Pattern for IoT API

RESTful Pattern for IoT API

Steve Liang explains how to access sensor data, or IoT data via SensorThings. He explains the RESTful pettern for IoT API. He provides numerous demonstrations to illustrate how to access your sensor data by constructing requests to the SensorThings API.

IoT Data Modeling with Open Standards

IoT Data Modeling with Open Standards

Steve Liang goes over the SensorThings Data Model. He explains each element of the data model, and their connections. He then illustrates with IoT use cases. Finally, he introduces the SensorThings Playground, showing how to walk through the guided setup, and how to use the code generated.

Introduction to SensorThings

Introduction to SensorThings

Steve Liang introduces the SensorThings API -- the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) candidate standard for the Internet of Things (IoT). He describes the broad reach of IoT, and the power of connecting sensor data. He also introduces SensorUp's Platform (sensorup.com) the first implementation of the SensorThings standard.