Distributed Network Data - Softcover

Allan, Alasdair

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1449360262 ISBN 13: 9781449360269

Publisher: O'Reilly Media, 2013

Synopsis

Build your own distributed sensor network to collect, analyze, and visualize real-time data about our human environment—including noise level, temperature, and people flow. With this hands-on book, you’ll learn how to turn your project idea into working hardware, using the easy-to-learn Arduino microcontroller and off-the-shelf sensors.

Authors Alasdair Allan and Kipp Bradford walk you through the entire process, from prototyping a simple sensor node to performing real-time analysis on data captured by a deployed multi-sensor network. Demonstrated at recent O’Reilly Strata Conferences, the future of distributed data is already here. If you have programming experience, you can get started immediately.

• Wire up a circuit on a breadboard, and use the Arduino to read values from a sensor
• Add a microphone and infrared motion detector to your circuit
• Move from breadboard to prototype with Fritzing, a program that converts your circuit design into a graphical representation
• Simplify your design: learn use cases and limitations for using Arduino pins for power and grounding
• Build wireless networks with XBee radios and request data from multiple sensor platforms
• Visualize data from your sensor network with Processing or LabVIEW

About this title

Book Description

From hardware to data to visualization

About the Author

Alasdair Allan is the author of several books published by O'Reilly Media, including this one. He and Pete Warden are somewhat infamous for causing a privacy scandal by uncovering that your iPhone was recording your location all the time. This caused several class action lawsuits and a U.S. Senate hearing. He isn't sure what to think about that. He runs a small technology consulting business writing software, building hardware, and providing training. He sporadically writes blog posts about things that interest him, or more frequently provides commentary about them in 140 characters or less. Alasdair is also a senior research fellow at the University of Exeter. As part of his work there he built a distributed peer-to-peer network of telescopes which, acting autonomously, reactively scheduled observations of time-critical events. Notable successes included contributing to the detection of the most distant object yet discovered, a gamma- ray burster at a redshift of 8.2.

Kipp Bradford is an educator, technology consultant, and entrepreneur with a passion for creating new products as well as finding new applications for existing technologies. He was the founder or cofounder of start-ups in the fields of transportation, consumer products, HVAC, and medical devices, and holds numerous patents for his inventions. Kipp co-founded Revolution By Design, Inc, a non-profit education and research organization dedicated to empowerment through technology and co-organizes Rhode Island's mini Maker Faire. As the Senior Design Engineer and Lecturer at the Brown University School of Engineering, Kipp teaches several engineering design and entrepreneurship courses. He is the chair of the Rhode Island Entrepreneurship Faculty group and serves on the boards of The Steel Yard and AS220. He is also on the technical advisory board of MAKE Magazine and is a Fellow at the College of Design, Engineering and Commerce at Philadelphia University.

Edition details

• Publisher: O'Reilly Media
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1449360262
• ISBN 13: 9781449360269
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 170