Sensors API

As we are unbound by commercial pressure here, how about we flip this a bit… instead of starting at the mobile phone with all it's boring/done to death sensors, we start somewhere more abstract or interesting: something like an Audrino (http://www.arduino.cc/) and a bunch of flex sensors, pressure sensors, etc. I mean get right into sensor theory… thermometers, odometers… or take a car as the first use case: how do I measure the gas in my car … as web service? Or even look at what sensors are around the house: light, power consumption, etc.  

We could start with use cases around that and build some prototypes for supporting "sensor arrays" (groups of sensors coordinated together that create meaningful output).  

Thoughts? Tomatoes?

Received on Friday, 26 August 2011 19:35:14 UTC