David G. Simmons

CORE

Head of Developer Relations

Apex, US

Joined Sep 2017

https://davidgs.com/

About

David Simmons is passionate about IoT and helped to develop the very first IoT Developer Platform before “IoT” was even ‘a thing.’ That was over 20 years ago. David has held numerous technical roles at companies such as DragonflyIoT, Riverbed Technologies, QuestDB and Sun Microsystems. twitter: @davidgsIoT

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How to Secure Your Raspberry Pi and Enable Safe, Resilient Updates

Learn how to safely encrypt and sign your Raspberry Pi filesystem and make reliably, recoverable updates easy and safe using hardware-based encryption.

October 21, 2024

· 6,745 Views · 2 Likes

How You Can Avoid a CrowdStrike Fiasco

Deconstruct the architectural shortcomings that could have prevented the worldwide Crowdstrike IT meltdown from being so disastrous.

August 7, 2024

· 5,024 Views · 2 Likes

IoT Needs To Get Serious About Security

Security issues in IoT have gotten worse, not better, and it's time we acknowledge that and fix it. It's long past time.

June 20, 2024

· 7,295 Views · 3 Likes

How to Stream Sensor Data to Apache Pinot for Real Time Analysis

Learn how to use Arduino, MQTT, Kafka, and Apache Pinot to stream environmental data for real-time access to sensor data.

April 21, 2023

· 6,060 Views · 7 Likes

Recording Badge Scans in Apache Pinot

Use a real-time analytics database to record NFC badge scans in part 1 of this 3-part project involving environmental data, real-time notifications, and more.

April 19, 2023

· 4,378 Views · 4 Likes

Real-Time Analytics for IoT

If you're searching for solutions for IoT data in the age of customer-centric data, real-time analytics using the Apache Pinot™ database is a great solution.

March 16, 2023

· 5,754 Views · 5 Likes

Getting Started with IoT and Camunda Platform 8

Integrating IoT, AI, and cloud-based BPMN automation.

Updated June 10, 2022

· 10,102 Views · 2 Likes

A Camunda Greenhouse: Part 3

How to automate a greenhouse with Arduino IoT, ESP-32, Golang, Camunda, and BPMN to make orchestration easy and management simple. No need to recompile firmware.

March 4, 2022

· 12,320 Views · 4 Likes

Automating IoT With Camunda Platform

From a human-intensive to a completely AI and BPMN process for dispensing Skittles!

August 4, 2021

· 27,961 Views · 6 Likes

How to: Building Flux Queries in Chronograf

Building Flux queries in Chronograf has never been easier.

November 19, 2018

· 10,641 Views · 2 Likes

How to Use Google Core IoT With InfluxData

Want to learn more about how to use Google Core IoT with InfluxData? Check out this tutorial to learn more with the new Telegraf plugin!

October 15, 2018

· 8,544 Views · 3 Likes

Get Your Syslog On

See how to set up your Telegraf instance to pull syslog data into InfluxDB to enable "metrics first" log analysis.

June 29, 2018

· 10,026 Views · 3 Likes

Enabling The Things Network for InfluxDB

Want to bring The Things Network's IoT data-gathering capabilities to a time series database that can handle it? Here's how to connect it to InfluxDB.

May 28, 2018

· 8,213 Views · 4 Likes

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Automating IoT With Camunda Platform

Jun 08, 2022 · David G. Simmons

Update: Part 1 of a complete tutorial on how to do this should be posting to DZone today, and Part 2 tomorrow. It's a very long tutorial but also extremely detailed. Should walk you through the entire process.

Automating IoT With Camunda Platform

Aug 13, 2021 · David G. Simmons

Thanks for the nice comment. It's always great to hear from people who appreciate what I write.

For this project I used the Google Vision API (there's code at the end on how I used it). It has a pre-trained AI model that detects emotion in faces. I could have trained my own model, but I went with the pre-trained one because of time-constraints.