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Announcing Xively Labs: Home Grown Code to Help You Innovate

Xively Labs LogoHere at Xively, the development, ops, support and business teams are constantly working to expand on our product as employees, which we love to do, however we are also curious nerds at heart! Our team comes from a variety of backgrounds.

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We’ve got biomedical engineers, audio technicians, quad-copter builders, early employees of the W3C, literature majors, ex-fill-in-the-giant-company-name-here, entrepreneurs and developers from backgrounds of every kind all working on the core Xively service, and it’s great to see the positive effect that kind of diversity has on our service.

However, the common thread we share as people is that we love to play with all things related to, on and around the IoT.  Combine that with the brilliant partners, customers and community members we interact with on any given day and we end up with our imaginations running 24/7/365 around all sorts of ideas.

Xively Build Stop LightSometimes, these ideas manifest themselves as features in the service ex: MQTT Link) or the Developer Center (Jumpstart Kit) as supported products.  However other ideas are things we’ve been developing internally, not as a product, but as a starting point to help advance our users and customer’s innovation.  Many of these items come from our hack days, where we step back and tackle something interesting with no preconceptions.  An example of one such item is our stoplight in the London development office that is wired into our build system.

So we’ve decided to launch Xively Labs as a place where we can collect the results of a variety of minds at work.  Sometimes we’ll release code snippets, a recipe on hacking a device to connect to Xively, a UX observation on headless devices, thoughts on the new wireless protocol on the block, or anything that can be helpful in advancing innovation on the IoT.  Think of Xively Labs as the purveyor of observations and helpful (yet unsupported) tools to make your development life more interesting!

What are you working on? What keeps your mind engaged? Tell us at @XivelyIOT.

Happy development!

The Xively Team

Xively Selected for “Ones to Watch” Showcase at Internet of Things 2013

OTW HeaderJune 18, 2013 – Boston, MA – Today Xively was selected to present at the “Ones to Watch” showcase at the Internet of Things 2013 on June 27th, 2013 in Cambridge, UK.

Internet of Things 2013, sponsored by the Business Leaders Network, is a one-day forum designed to educate, inspire and connect people and companies that are focused on turning connected devices into profitable businesses. Attendees will explore IoT commercial applications, business models, industry traction, and what is needed to build successful IoT ventures.

“We’re thrilled to share our unique approach with IoT 2013 attendees and show how to easy it can be to benefit from the Internet of Things revolution,” says Chad Jones, VP Product Strategy, Xively.

The “Ones the Watch” showcase features 12 companies, selected from a pool of submissions, that have demonstrated success in the IoT and are expected to drive the market forward.

Register for the Internet of Things 2013 or follow the event on Twitter using the hashtag #IoT13. 

Enhanced Graphing Capabilities in the Xively Developer Workbench

The Xively team is really excited to announce the release some great new graphing capabilities in the Xively Developer Workbench. Graphs now give you:

Customizable visualization time-spans let you see the slice of your data that you really care about with the ability to zoom in and zoom out as needed:

Xively Zoomed Graph View

Xively Zoomed Graph View

Raw and averaged data filters means you can render data in the form that makes most sense for the situation. The raw data view makes it especially easy to do debug:

Xively Raw Data Graph

Xively Raw Data Graph

…and the average data view gives you a feeling for the data trend:

Xively Average Data Graph View

Xively Average Data Graph View

Scrolling lets you view your historical data easily and a viewer lets you see the value under the active pointer:

Xively Historical Data Graph

Xively Historical Data Graph

Give it a try and let us know what you think at @XivelyIOT

The Xively Team

Bloomberg Businessweek: Behind the ‘Internet of Things’ Is Android—and It’s Everywhere

imagesSummary: Bloomberg BusinessWeek’s Ashlee Vance discusses Android’s place in the Internet of Things market and its growing domination over Apple and Microsoft.

“It’s the No. 1 mobile OS by a wide margin; Android handsets outsell Apple’s (AAPL) iPhones globally by about 4 to 1. Impressive as those numbers are, they actually understate Android’s prevalence, because increasingly it’s the operating system behind just about anything with a computer chip.”

“Philip DesAutels, the vice president for technology at Xively, a just-launched cloud computing service that simplifies the work needed to get a device to transmit data, has studied the Internet of things for years. He says there are five times as many downloads of Xively’s Android-specific software as there are of its software made for Apple’s iOS. His favorite product: an Android-based agricultural irrigation system where a network of tiny, waterproof computers in the field regulates water valves. ‘With Android, you get something that is power-efficient, it’s easy for developers to do the user interface and touch controls, and it’s easy to get data in and out,’ DesAutels says. ‘There’s just a bigger community behind it than with anything else.’”

Read full article here: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-05-29/behind-the-internet-of-things-is-android-and-its-everywhere

Geoweb Summit: ‘IoT bigger than the internet and mobile waves combined’

New York City was host to Internet week and Xively was there talking about the Internet of Things.  On Thursday May 23rd, 2013, our own Chad Jones, Xively’s VP Product Strategy, was at the Geoweb Summit and spoke about the opportunity space that lies within the Internet of Things.  As part of that talk, Chad dropped some big numbers from the industry.

‘The opportunity space of the IoT is anywhere between $1.2 – $14.4 trillion dollars by 2020-2025 and we believe this is a larger business opportunity in than the internet and mobile waves combined’. The discussion continues around Xively’s approach as well as a spirited discussion around the panel on the nuances and aspirations of the IoT.

Watch here: http://geowebsummit.com/

ComputerworldUK: ARM promotes Internet of Things development platform

computerworlduk-logo.jpgSummary: ComputerworldUK’s Antony Savvas discusses ARM’s partnership with LogMeIn’s Xively and it’s approach to tackle the IoT market.

“As part of the agreement, the companies are cooperating on LogMeIn’s Xively Jumpstart Kit, a “rapid prototyping-to-production bundle” that “significantly reduces the cost, complexity and learning curve” required to bring IoT-based connected products and solutions to market, said the partners.”

“It is made possible through a rapidly growing class of small, inexpensive yet powerful processors, ubiquitous connectivity, mobile computing and interaction platforms.”

Read full article here: http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/applications/3447003/arm-promotes-internet-of-things-development-platform/

 

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CIO: ARM promotes Internet of Things development platform

CIOSummary: ComputerworldUK’s Antony Savvas discusses ARM’s partnership with LogMeIn’s Xively and it’s approach to tackle the IoT market in a syndicated article by CIO Business Technology Leadership.

“As part of the agreement, the companies are cooperating on LogMeIn’s Xively Jumpstart Kit, a “rapid prototyping-to-production bundle” that “significantly reduces the cost, complexity and learning curve” required to bring Internet of Things-based connected products to market, said the partners.”

Read full article here: http://www.cio.co.uk/news/r-and-d/arm-promotes-internet-of-things-development-platform/

TechWorld: ARM promotes Internet of Things development platform

TechWorld Summary: Computerworld UK’s Antony Savvas discusses ARM’s partnership with LogMeIn’s Xively in a syndicated article by TechWorld.

“The IoT is a world where devices, data and places are interconnected with applications and users over the internet, ‘transforming how people discover, interact and experience their world’ ”

” ‘ARM is increasing opportunities for innovation across the Internet of Things with easy-to-use platforms and standards that accelerate the creation of low-power, end-to-end solutions,’ said John Cornish, ARM general manager for system design.”

Read full article here: http://news.techworld.com/applications/3447250/arm-promotes-internet-of-things-development-platform/

Current Analysis IT Connection: The Intersection of Cloud and M2M Will Help Create the “Internet of Things”

EITClogo3SbSummary: Current Analysis IT Connection’s Kathryn Weldon discusses the existing M2M market and the collaboration with cloud services to create the future “Internet of Things”.

“A lot of M2M vendors and enterprises are starting to forego the use of the word M2M and are replacing it with IoT, implying a much bigger set of “things” that will all be connected to the Internet (and to each other) using every available fixed and wireless access technology.”

“It also includes a “frictionless” developer experience to simplify complex technologies through a Developer Workbench and Developer Center, libraries that support hundreds of platforms, millions of gateways and billions of devices, and highly scalable provisioning and management capabilities.”

“Once we get into this future phase where “everything” is connected, the current generation of enterprise-driven M2M connections and service offerings may look narrow and primitive. The ecosystem is also destined for some big changes in the 2015-2020 period when these disruptive models are supposed to take hold.”

Read full article here: http://itcblogs.currentanalysis.com/2013/05/16/the-intersection-of-cloud-and-m2m-will-help-create-the-internet-of-things/#more-2508

GigaOM: Benetton teams up with Little Printer creator Berg on connected devices

gigaom-logoSummary: GigaOM’s David Meyer covers the partnership on an Italian research & design facility called Sandbox and the future the IoT space holds.

“There are quite a few of these platforms gearing up at the moment, all of which aim to make it easier for people to create new types of connected, everyday devices. One of the biggest looks to be LogMeIn’s Xively platform, which counts the muscular ARM as a partner as of earlier this week, but there are other smaller efforts also underway, such as those from Carriots and Electric Imp.”

“I think it’s fair to say the more design-minded among those developers now know where to look as they prepare to invent the connected future.”

Read full article here: http://gigaom.com/2013/05/17/benetton-teams-up-with-little-printer-creator-berg-on-connected-devices/