What is ESP8266?
The ESP8266 is a low-cost Wi-Fi microchip with full TCP/IP stack and microcontroller capability produced by Shanghai-based Chinese manufacturer, Espressif Systems. The chip first came to the attention with the ESP-01 module, made by a third-party manufacturer, Ai-Thinker.
This small module allows microcontrollers to connect to a Wi-Fi network and make simple TCP/IP connections using Hayes-style commands. It comes with default firmware which supports AT commands. But rather than default firmware you...
Footprint of IoT Powered and Filter Free Air Purifiers
The presence of dust in homes, offices, and other human environments are unavoidable. In fact, according to the Environmental Protection Agency, indoor air can be 2 to 5 times more polluted than outdoor air. This airborne pollution contributes to minor annoyances such as itchy eyes, sneezing, and headaches to human beings. Worst still, it can be a major contributing factor to severe allergies, life-threatening asthma.
To solve this problem, a working air purifier machine well address this issue. there are various IoT based...
JavaScript microcontroller you can program wirelessly - Puck.js
Many companies have designed their own Bluetooth beacon mostly to find objects such as your keys or pets. Puck.js is also a Bluetooth 4.2 LE beacon, but has many more features including compatibility with the upcoming Bluetooth 5.0 standard, and some GPIOs programmable with JavaScript (Espruino implementation), and corresponding visual programming editor.
Puck.js beacon supports Google’s Eddystone and Apple’s iBeacon to advertise itself to other devices, as well as Web Bluetooth
currently supported by Chrome, but with other...
IoT - Business opportunities in India
The Internet of Things
enables new business opportunities by connecting your devices, sensors,
cloud services and data to create the Internet of your things. The
market value of IoT is massive as the market value is directly
proportional to the number of devices that is 1.9 billion today and 9
billion by 2018. Here are the top way to wealth creation by IoT.
Connected advertising and marketing:
The
digital advertising industry is already undergoing something of a
transformation. While facing an existential threat from...