On November 18th, 2015, DataYard participated in the 9th Annual Taste of IT put on by Dayton’s Technology First at Sinclair’s Ponitz Center. It was a great show — well attended, and lots of energy. Many thanks to the organizers, Ann Gallaher and Michelle Marek, as well as the many volunteers and speakers who helped put on a wonderful technology event here in the heart of Dayton.

I had the pleasure of doing a presentation in the afternoon on a topic that has really captured my imagination: the ideas behind IOT, an “Internet of Things”. Lately, I’ve been exploring the concepts behind network-connected Things, and building my own prototypes to bridge physical and virtual realities.*

The intention of my talk was to briefly describe at a high level how Things work, and then I dove into some of the hardware, software, and apps that make building Things relatively easy.

For those who are interested, I’ve uploaded my slides and presenters notes to SlideShare.net. Feel free to contact me with questions or project ideas.

David Mezera

* Yes! The picture in the banner is a Thing I recently built and tested for our data center — an underfloor pressure and temperature sensor that streams data out via WiFi to Blynk. It uses the Sparkfun ESP8266 Thing Dev Board and the Sparkfun MPL3115A2 pressure/altitude/temperature sensor.