Re: public interfaces for web of sensors

Thank you Marcos

sounds like very interesting work-

As such, our group is focusing initially on creating a Serial API that
> would be suitable for use in a Web browser.


yep, I think I forwarded a post of yours to our list


> We are basing the design on the extensive knowledge/experience of the
> nodejs community.
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uhmmmm.  are the nodejs the main target user group for the api?

I'd say, when you are ready, we could help to profile the user base for this
project, and perhaps organise focus groups on selected aspects of the api
architecture.


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> > Is there anything we can do to make the sensor web more
> > accessible/useful?
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> Well, the fact that the browsable web can’t access any sensors without
> having to go through some intermediary is a problem. This means that many
> synchronous (real time) applications can’t be created.
>

ok, let me understand the problem.  you are saying that software that comes
with the sensors does not have interfaces? I think I have played with
browser based sensor interfaces before.


> So, helping us actually making it possible to interact with hardware that
> interfaces with sensors would be mutually beneficial to both groups: as, at
> the moment, any semantic sensor data you guys might be getting can’t
> actually come from the users of the Web (only for intermediaries or
> otherwise indirectly).
>

are you absiolutely sure about this??   If you are, then I eed to do more
homework  before working more on this

if so, that's the missing link to the semantic web. then we can have the
vision finally up.

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> > Is anyone here working on something related and interested in
> collaboration to devise/implement interfaces for the semantic sensor web?
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> As above. Would be great to collaborate. Our spec is here:
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> http://whatwg.github.io/serial/


brill thanks

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> We are just getting started - most of the discussion is happening in the
> Github repo:
> https://github.com/whatwg/serial/issues
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OK- not sure if github is the best place to discuss for us 'users' but we
ca pick up from there and roll on here or something

will continue to follow closely

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> Marcos Caceres
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