Re: Sensors API

+1 to this opening up some interesting and valuable options for
distributed applications that share this sensor data across
devices...however that also brings a world of security issues with it
too.


roBman


On Tue, 2011-08-30 at 13:43 +0200, Robin Berjon wrote:
> On Aug 30, 2011, at 13:25 , Scott Wilson wrote:
> > I know some guys at Huawei who wanted to get around the whole device API adoption issues by bundling local webservers with a REST API into the device OS as a way of accessing WAC/DAP functionality.
> 
> This is an approach that has been given a decent amount of thought (though more is needed). It doesn't really solve everything (the primary problem being your security layer given that you have no access to the UI) but it has interesting advantages nevertheless. DAP's looking into it for some of its APIs. Note that this isn't limited to sensors.
> 
> >> Or even look at what sensors are around the house: light, power consumption, etc.  
> > 
> > Sounds good to me.  (There is also the W3 home networking IG.)
> 
> The System Information API may provide a starting point for some of these.
> 

Received on Tuesday, 30 August 2011 11:59:34 UTC