Blog - Tag: m2m

On 25-26 October Nicholas Herriot and Ashley Mills from Vodafone Group R&D joined forces with developer.vodafone.com to showcase some of the demos from their collaboration with ARM's mbed platform for rapid prototyping. The picture below shows the demo part of their stand:

This comprised of:

A) An SMS driven, websockets triggered live tile guessing game.
B) "The Question Mark" - an adhoc feedback point for anywhere gatherings (prints out SMSs sent to it).
C) The color changing light (changes color according to remote instructions).
D) The Dwarf Door (remote access enabled).

In addition to these four interactive ...

Following on from the recent series regarding Machine 2 Machine, Nicholas Herriot, Solutions Architect, Vodafone Group R&D gives us an overview of how you can apply M2M to everyday applications.

Only 4 weeks ago I made a short presentation about how easy it was to create a door controller using prototyping embedded controllers.
Within the R&D department our bunch of cables and controllers did not quite galvanise and enthuse with the possibilities of such a system. We decided to create a real miniature door complete with Yale lock, controller, solenoid, modem and software. Our crazy door has gone ...

On the evening of 27th June Vodafone developer in collaboration with Group R&D had the pleasure of hosting a recurring Meetup called The Internet of Things.