- From: Scott Wilson <scott.bradley.wilson@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 12:25:48 +0100
- To: Marcos Caceres <marcosscaceres@gmail.com>
- Cc: public-native-web-apps@w3.org
On 26 Aug 2011, at 20:34, Marcos Caceres wrote: > 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? 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. There has also been work done in the e-science community around metadata for understanding data from various kinds of scientific instruments, so you can put your oscilloscopes and microscopes online etc. > 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.) > > 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? > > >
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