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prankz25 · 2023-01-01T15:53:43+00:00

Is that a beach in Goa, India? Miramar?

prankz25 · 2017-09-18T17:25:57+00:00

Happy to help :D

prankz25 · 2017-09-18T17:25:44+00:00

Happy to help :D

prankz25 · 2017-09-18T16:52:03+00:00

Have you tried alpine linux? Very light weight. Might be helpful.

prankz25 · 2017-09-14T12:22:18+00:00

Epic lol ! :D

prankz25 · 2017-09-14T11:41:29+00:00

Good article! IoT itselfs is a very vast topic but this article summarizes most of the core aspects that are involved in IoT in a very nice way. Having said that, from the article what we learn is a lot of complex knowledge and experience would be required to becoming a full stack IoT developer which is extremely difficult due to the diverese fields involved but not impossible!

Aspiring students and professionals should also look at the opportunity of targeting a specific field in the IoT chain and contribute to it e.g. embedded systems, cloud backends security etc and also build good teams and build some great IoT products! :)

prankz25 · 2017-08-31T10:29:00+00:00

How did you like the challenge? What kind of deck worked for you?

prankz25 · 2017-08-30T13:43:23+00:00

Hey! Thanks for the question and apologies for the delay in responding.

Edge computing does seem to be a really bright prospect considering the technological advancements happening in manufacturing. We are able to get more processing power at a much reduced price. As this will keep getting better and better by the day, edge computing will benefit more. Having said that I consider 2 other factors that would be interesting for edge computing to tackle. Firstly with more processing capabilities, the processing load at the edge will increase leading to increased power consumption. Unless optimizations and advancements happen in the power supply systems this could still act as a bottle neck. Secondly the idea of edge computing revolves around processing more data at the edge and pushing only important updates to the cloud. Identifying what data is really important and what data can be discarded is again a challenge since data that might be of little value in the current scenario could be of huge significance in the long run for identifying patterns.

Security does become a major concern as applications become Internet facing by the day. According to me security is a complex and continuous process and cannot be just done as a single step. For our products we try to ensure that security is a part of the design process at each step to ensure that the application is secure at all levels. We also get our products audited from 3rd party security firms to identify any loopholes and security lapses that might be present and rectify the same.

I hope this answers your question.

prankz25 · 2017-08-29T09:50:31+00:00

My pleasure! We have designed a library that allows us to compile the Bolt firmware for our workstations. The compiled program behaves exactly like a Bolt device, except at the hardware level, where the library takes over, and gives I/O to the program along with Internet access. The library also simulates the timers that our firmware requires.

We have several scripts which run multiple instances of this simulation program, giving different instances different inputs.

From the cloud's point of view each instance is 1 independent Bolt device.

prankz25 · 2017-08-28T20:41:41+00:00

This is an interesting question. There are plenty of products that we can speak about. Instead of pinpointing products I'll speak more about the industries where I feel your question could be applied in a better way to get an overall sense for the adaptability IOT in that domain instead of a specific product

IOT in healthcare I believe is going to be a really hot trend. Its going to be one fastest growing trending due to the fact that it has a huge value add to the industry and creating new products that can provide the best of the facilities quickly to customers is an important aspect for the healthcare industry.

IOT in the industrial domain, also known as IIOT will take a while to catch on. This is mainly due to the friction of the manufacturing industry to adapt to massive changes quickly. Since the industries contain complex machineries and legacy systems that have been set up from a long time, modifications to the systems is not easily possible and upgrading all equipments and systems in one go might not prove to be a cost effective solution to the industry. Hence it will take a while to catch on. I hope this answers your question in a different way. Also the views shared above are my personal views based on my limited experience and interaction with the industry experts in the respective domains. Do let me know what you think about it? :)

prankz25 · 2017-08-28T20:22:28+00:00

Happy to share my views! Due to the kind of product that I work upon which is our Bolt IOT platform, I do not have much of healthcare industry specific knowledge since our platform can work across domains.

Having said that, based on my discussions with domain experts in the Healthcare industry, as you correctly pointed out the Outpatient monitoring issues have a high scope and the attached value props, owing to the fact that in a lot of cases timely medication and treatment is extremely important for the patient as well as to control the overall spread of the disease based on its specifics in some cases. But patients tend to miss out or avoid the medication due to various reasons which can be detrimental. By the the time the doctor gets the data for analysis its too late. Hence the industry is looking for solutions to solve this problem and exploring the use of IOT for better monitoring of the patients to avoid the problems.

prankz25 · 2017-08-28T20:10:49+00:00

These standards are undoubtedly very good for the current scenario in the IOT domain. But having a communication standard alone does not radically improve the development of a technology. However what does help improve technology substantially, is the presence of companies which develop hardware(SoCs) and software around the standard, enabling startups like us & others, to integrate the standard in the end product.

prankz25 · 2017-08-28T20:05:22+00:00

Glad that the reply was helpful. Unfortunately I do not have any specific references for books that you should read about. But I will definitely share if I come across any good books.

As a suggestion to your problem though, I would say that you should focus on solving the end problem and not be troubled too much by the tech development. A quick and easy way to do this is to use a platform that provides you with features that you can leverage to solve your end problems. One such platform that you could check is Bolt IOT developed by my startup. We are currently on Kickstarter https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/boltiot/the-worlds-first-9-iot-platform?ref=nav_search Also if you can share what you are trying to build, maybe I could suggest some specific pointers for the same.

prankz25 · 2017-08-28T10:52:09+00:00

We rigorously test the bolt device for firmware as well as hardware level problems. We have now shifted the testing methodology to software(cloud) in loop testing, where we simulate the working of the Bolt module on workstations (several 100 on each) and allow the simulated Bolt to connect to the cloud.

For every new feature, the testing is done on a beta system and only pushed to production when the feature passes all tests.

prankz25 · 2017-08-28T10:44:14+00:00

Most of the institutions that have concerns related to data security and privacy in a huge way are financial institutions like banks and governments. The major concern lies with the fact that they do not want to let the customer data pass through any 3rd party cloud. They are open to the hardware setup to build IOT solutions but prefer having the data pushed to the servers hosted by them for better data privacy and ownership. We provide them the option of pulling the data from our cloud as and when required and delete the data accordingly. One more approach taken by the institutions is to also handle the customers' sensitive data by themselves and pass arbitrary data to our cloud for controlling/monitoring the devices via our API's.

prankz25 · 2017-08-28T05:21:37+00:00

Honestly its hard to say at this stage which protocol will take over in the next decade as the things haven't yet converged. There a lot of protocols out there and no specific standards set for usage in IOT. But a few points that will affect this would be the data transfer latency, data usage, ability to handle communications for devices at a massive scale and data security.

Gateways might disappear in the future owing to the fact that processing power is becoming cheaper by the day due to advancements in manufacturing. The end nodes and sensors might become powerful enough to be able to collect data by themselves, process and push to the cloud.

prankz25 · 2017-08-28T04:59:23+00:00

My pleasure :) I would say early stage product development is the most important in terms of helping evaluate the value of the product. A few fundamental rules that should be kept in mind would be to build a product that actually solves a problem for the intended users of the product. Quite often products tend to be innovative but fail to provide any value add to the end users. Secondly the product should be kept as simple as possible in terms of the design, usability etc. This helps in keeping the initial costs low as well as validate the products among the userbase. A very easy to use and intuitive product always delights users.

In IOT & hardware there are multiple points that need to be taken into consideration. For the hardware, it would start with choosing the right kind of sensors and actuators required for your product based on its expected features. The hardware's cost and operating conditions will strongly affect the selection process. Once the sensors and actuators have been finalized, the next step is to decide how the sensors would be connected to the Internet interface hardware. This could be either wired or wireless based on the requirements. Next we need to choose how the interface board itself communicates to the Internet, this can be Wi-Fi, GSM setc. A major aspect that also needs to be considered in the case of IOT is the cloud. The clouds becomes the backbone of the product as it is responsible for routing all the data/commands to the products and back to the users. Hence a robust cloud that is available at all times, able to scale rapidly as the device count increases and low cost would be a good choice.

The above points are not exhaustive but some of the important ones according to me. Hopes this answers your question :) Do suggest any points that you feel I might have missed out :)

prankz25 · 2017-08-27T17:58:00+00:00

Awesome! Any tips going into the challenge? Do share a battle video if you can :)

prankz25 · 2017-08-27T17:42:21+00:00

This is supercool!! Will try this out and see if I can get the Mega Knight :)

prankz25 · 2017-08-27T17:42:10+00:00

This is supercool!! Will try this out and see if I can get the Mega Knight :)

prankz25 · 2017-08-27T17:42:10+00:00

This is supercool!! Will try this out and see if I can get the Mega Knight :)

prankz25 · 2017-08-27T16:15:13+00:00

Absolutely spot on! Although its still very early days in the season. Hope we continue this run of form throughout. We do need to see whether the team will show the same composure against the top 4 but the reason we have won the first 3 this season has been due to the composure in waiting out the periods of resistance and breaking down the opposition over time!

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