Benjamin Cabé's blog

2014 is almost over, and one of the first big events for Eclipse IoT next year will be EclipseCon 2015, March 9-12 in Burlingame, California. If you haven’t seen the EclipseCon program already, I highly encourage you to check out all the great sessions that we have selected as part...

If you follow our regular IoT hangouts, you probably have seen this presentation of the Espruino Pico already: If you don’t, you really want to check out espruino.com! Espruino is an Open Source and Open Hardware project that provides a super-tiny implementation of Javascript that runs on micro-controllers. The Espruino...

Three years ago, Sierra Wireless, IBM and Eurotech teamed up to create a Working Group that would help address Machine-to-Machine (M2M) and Internet of Things (IoT) market fragmentation by promoting the use of open source implementations and open standards. It’s incredible how much our community has grown since then, and...

What I really like with MQTT and CoAP is that they both are very simple protocols. When dealing with MQTT, the client itself has almost no state to maintain (at least when you stick to QoS 0 communications) and granted that you have an MQTT packet serializer/unserializer, it’s very simple...

Last week at Google I/O, the Android Wear platform was officially launched, together with two smart watches from LG and Samsung. I wanted to play around with the new APIs for Wear devices for an upcoming blog post on how to use MQTT with you smart watch, but I had...

In just about a week is EclipseCon France, and here’s one more reason why it’s going to be awesome! This year you will all be actors of a real-world Internet of Things setup, that leverages several Eclipse IoT technologies. We’ve been wanting to do this for a couple years, and...

We have to great IoT events in Toulouse this week! IoT Toulouse meetup The recently created IoT Toulouse meetup group will have its first event tomorrow, Tuesday 13. Premier meetup IoT Toulouse ! Tuesday, May 13, 2014, 6:00 PM TIC Valley425 Rue Jean Rostand 49 Members Attending Venez nombreux au...

The Rapiro is a nice open-hardware robot, controlled by an Arduino and a Raspberry Pi. Earlier this week, I decided that he’d be nice if I could run Eclipse Orion directly on the robot, allowing me to write an app that would bridge the Rapiro to the Internet (there’s a...

The most difficult aspect of developing an IoT solution is probably that one has to deal with the –embedded– hardware that will eventually run the application that talks to the sensors, thermostats, car entertainment, etc. Embedded is definitely complex: the resources are limited, the development tooling usually sets you back...

On March 19, we were very lucky to host a great IoT event during EclipseCon 2014. I think everybody in the room that day learnt a lot about the current challenges for IoT, and our speakers really did a good job at presenting the challenges for building an open, interoperable...