Twentieth Anniversary Lookback: IoT Connects Software to the World Around Us
The Internet of Things (IoT) permeates our lives, and has literally grown up over the course of Chariot Solutions’ 20 years in business.
Choosing a Wireless Technology – IoT on AWS – A Philly Cloud Computing Event
We’ll take a brief tour of some ways to add wireless connectivity to a device – like WiFi, Bluetooth, ZigBee, Zwave, NFC, Cellular, LoRa, and Sigfox.
DevNews #78 – Don’s NFC programming book, we’re snowed in, and what about Julia?
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We talk about Don’s new book, Motorola Mobility’s sale to Lenovo, the Julia programming language, Erlang’s new features including hashes, Chrome WebApps in PhoneGap, and more.
Read and Write NFC Tags with PhoneGap
The phonegap-nfc plugin allows you to read and write NFC tags from a PhoneGap application using JavaScript. The plugin originally supported Android. The latest release adds support for Blackberry 7.0. After installing the plugin into your PhoneGap app (See README) it is easy to start scanning tags. Create a function that will handle the NFC … Read More
NFC. What does it all mean?
NFC: Near Field Communications: a short-range high frequency wireless communication technology which enables the exchange of data between devices over about a 10 centimeter (around 4 inches) distance (via Wikipedia). Well that’s great, but what does it mean, especially when mentioned in conjunction with Gingerbread? As you may (or may not) have heard this week … Read More