Basically any device or thing that has an internet connection can publish information about itself so that it can be consumed externally. For example if you had a BeagleBone microprocessor monitoring temperatures and you wanted to share those temperatures with other people or machines on the cloud, you could do it easily with dweet.io. It's basically a really simple pub/sub platform.
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Ya, perhaps I am being thick, but what would this be useful for?
Basically any device or thing that has an internet connection can publish information about itself so that it can be consumed externally. For example if you had a BeagleBone microprocessor monitoring temperatures and you wanted to share those temperatures with other people or machines on the cloud, you could do it easily with dweet.io. It's basically a really simple pub/sub platform.
A few examples:
- Public swimming pool temperature
- Air quality information in city
- Traffic light status
- Train GPS position