Good Read - IOT Startup Ideas

IOT Startup Ideas - 50 Sensor Applications for a Smarter World. This covers all below categories

• Smart City
• Smart Environment
• Smart Water
• Smart Metering
• Security
• Retail
• Logistics
• Industrial Control
• Agriculture
• Farming
• Home Automation
• eHealth

Lot of Startup Ideas!!

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Weekend Reading - Webinar - Performance Testing Approach for Big Data Applications.

Very good session – Webinar - Performance Testing Approach for Big Data Applications. Few interesting notes / slides from session

• Rate of Data Ingestion - How fast system consumes data?
• Data Processing - Speed how data is processed. Testing Data processing in isolation with data sets populated. Run specific perf tests (MR Jobs, Pig, Hive Scripts)
• Data Persistence – I/O bound process. (Data Writes / Updates on DB, Garbage Collection, Monitoring Metrics)
• Complete end to end time for processing (Network Connectivity, Processing, Results)

Big Data Test Challenges

• Diverse Technologies
• Unavailability of Test Tools for Big Data Technologies / Scenarios
• Limited Monitoring / Diagnostic Solutions
• Test Scripting / Environment

Perf Test Tools

• Use cloud to simulate large infrastructure
• Cloud orchestration scripts Puppet, Chef

Approach

• Depending on usage in production identify patterns for production workload
• Fault Tolerance Scenarios
• Hadoop monitoring tools to check Map reduce jobs
• Selecting Test Clients - Custom code
• Performance / Failover tests to ensure scalability (Node failures during processing)

Test Parameters and Summary

Very Nice, Practical and useful webinar. There are a lot of posts / webinars. This one is very useful and practical.

More Reads
Evaluating SolrMeter for Performance Testing
Benchmarking with HTTPerf.js and NodeUnit

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Building Internet of Things - Projects

Post PyCon2013, Arduino and IOT (Internet Of Things) several useful projects I found while reading. Listed below some interesting sites / projects

• Breakout is a prototyping tool for exploring the intersection of the web and the physical world
• Robotics - Tools
• How To Make a Robot
• Network Enabled Electronics
• Building Internet of Things with the Arduino
• Internet of Things: Connected devices to save our resources
• Home Automation System HomeVisionXL adds ThingSpeak Plugin
• Solar Hot Water Temperature Monitoring with Arduino + ThingSpeak
• ThingSpeak - Open App Platform between things and People
• Funnel
• Student Projects
• NFC, QR, EPC and Android: Ready to Tag the World!
• Android and the Web of Things: NFC, EPC, QR and Arduino
• Python Practice Book
• The Python Testing Tools Taxonomy
• Arduino-Controlled Robot Makes Drumbeats With Forks
• RC Tractor Build
• Do It Yourself Nuclear Fusion
• Writing a FUSE Filesystem in Python
• Bluetooth Arcade Controller
• Cellular Sensor Sentinel
• 47 Raspberry Pi Projects to Inspire Your Next Build
• Build Your Own Arduino-Powered Car Tracking System

More Reads on Hacking

• Hacking the Global Telecommunications Network
• Its all in the wrist: Remote Exec 
• Wide-Area Networks
• Short-Wave Radio Hacking
• Android platform based linux kernel rootkit
• The Art of Exploitation -  Microsoft IIS 7.5 remote heap buffer overflow
• Happy Hacking

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