What is Internet of Things (IoT)?
Solution
To discover the possibilities of IoT we started our own IoT project a few weeks ago. In this blog post series we will explain what we are doing and how we are doing it. The goal of the project is to create a couple of sensor stations, hang them in our office and create reports with the sensor data in PowerBI. No business case, just testing and learning.
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| IoT project overview |
Sensor stations
We started by buying a couple of Microsoft IoT Packs for Raspberry Pi 2. This is a great starter kit to learn more about IoT with Microsoft technology. It has a couple of sensors in it like a Photo Cell and a Temperature, Pressure & Humidity sensor [details].
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| Microsoft Internet of Things Pack for Raspberry Pi 2 |
But to make it even more challenging/interesting we ordered a couple of extra sensors:
- Magnetic contact switches (door sensors) [details]
- Fast Vibration sensors (easy to trigger) [details]
- Motion sensors [details]
- Electret Microphone Amplifiers (to detect sounds) [details]
In total we spent around € 150,- per sensor station (including the Raspberry Pi).
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| Extra sensors |
Within the following weeks we will blog about the following subjects of our IoT project:
- Setting up the Raspberry Pi with the sensors
- Reading the sensors with .NET
- Sending the data to the Azure IoT Hub
- Setting up Stream Analytics
- Creat reports in PowerBI
Joost, Mark, Menno and Ricardo
IoT Adventure: 1 - Setting up Raspberry Pi with sensors
IoT Adventure: 2 - Preparing development machine
IoT Adventure: 3 - Create Visual Studio Project for sensors
IoT Adventure: 4 - Sending sensor data to Azure IoT hub