Peter Waher - Learning Internet of Things

Peter Waher is the cofounder of Clayster, a company with its origin in Scandinavia but now operates in four continents. Clayster is dedicated to the development of Internet of Things applications and provides an IoT platform for rapid application development. Currently, Peter lives and works in Chile where he is the CEO of Clayster Laboratorios Chile S.A., a subsidiary of Clayster that provides development expertise to partner companies and promotes the Internet of Things technology to research institutions. Originally a mathematician, commercial pilot, and computer games developer, he has worked for 20 years with computers and device communication, including low-level development in assembler for resource-constrained devices to high-level system design and architecture. He's currently participating in various standardization efforts within IEEE, UPnP, and XSF, working on designing standards for Internet of Things. His work on smart applications for Internet of Things and the development of the IP-TV application "Energy Saving through Smart Applications" won the Urban Living Labs global showcase award in the Cultural and Societal Participation and Collaboration Tools category. Peter Waher can be found on LinkedIn at http://linkedin.com/in/peterwaher/.

I'd like to thank the founder of Clayster, Rikard Strid, and Packt Publishing for the opportunity to write this book; Joachim Lindborg for the many ideas and discussions related to Internet of Things; Fernando Cruz and Freddy Jimenez for their invaluable help with many practical details; my eldest daughter, Maria-Lorena, for accepting to stand model and offer to break into my office at night; and finally my wife and children for tolerating the many late hours it took to write this book.

Fiore Basile is a programmer, system administrator, creative, entrepreneur and maker. Since 1996, he has served as project manager, consultant, and technology officer in industrial and research projects of many sizes across Italy and Europe. He worked in the fields of cultural heritage, e-health, digital preservation, multimodal interfaces, web and mobile publishing. During his career, he also founded two IT start-ups, held workshops at international conferences and events, and has been interviewed by national and international press. His work experience allowed him to build a broad expertise in systems, web and mobile software development, open source and open hardware, embedded programming, and electronics. He's currently conducting research on wearable technologies, effective computing, and smart connected devices, and he is working as the coordinator of FabLab Cascina, a digital fabrication laboratory in the middle of Tuscany.

Dominique "Dom" Guinard is the CTO and cofounder of EVRYTHNG, a Web of Things and Internet of Things software company that makes products smart by connecting them to the Web. Dom got his PhD from ETH Zurich where he worked on defining the Web of Things architecture, a worldwide network of interconnected objects (sensor networks, appliances, machines, and tagged objects). He also cofounded WebofThings.org and the Web of Things conference series.

Before this, he worked on bringing industrial networks of RFID-tagged objects and smart things to the Web at the MIT Auto-ID Labs and was a visiting researcher at the MIT Mobile Experience Lab. He also worked for 4 years with SAP on designing scalable software architectures and infrastructures to integrate real-world objects with business systems. Dom was a researcher at the Auto-ID Labs, Zurich, where he worked on using mobile phones as gateways to Internet of Things (IoT) for Nokia. Before this, he worked on scalable IoT enterprise software architectures for RFID and embedded devices in collaboration with Sun Microsystems.

He holds an MSc degree in computer science and a BSc in computer science and management with a specialization in mobile and ubiquitous computing. In 2011, Dominique was listed fifth among the world's top 100 IoT thinkers. Early in 2012, his PhD research on the Web of Things was awarded the ETH Medal.

Phodal Huang has over 4 years of experience in hardware and web development. He graduated from Xi'an University of Arts and Science. He currently works at ThoughtWorks as a developer. He is the owner of the mini IoT project (https://github.com/phodal/iot) and the author of the eBook, Design IoT (http://designiot.phodal.com, in Chinese). He loves designing, painting, writing, traveling, and hacking; you can find out more about him on his personal website at http://www.phodal.com.

Joachim Lindborg is a dedicated systems engineer with a long experience of all the technologies that have been passed through the years, starting from Texas Instrument TI-16 to deploying Docker components on Core-Os on a distributed network of Intel NUC machines.

He is deeply into the exploding area of small devices. Electronics has always been fascinating and Joachim started soldering electronics in seventh grade. The Raspberry explosion with open hardware and software and MakerSpace enthusiasm is a revival and reclaim from the big producers.

Joachim's current focus is to combine these different forms of knowledge of large systems and hardware with meters and actuators to create smart energy services.

Starting in 1993, Joachim was part of the biggest telecom project in Ericsson. The project aimed at creating the next century telecom platforms, ATM. TCP/IP seems to be the winner. For his next big project, he was at the Swedish Utility for several years, building smart home services, which was a pre-millennium shift as they were using phone lines and modems. This is a dead technology now.