IBM Technical Workshop: Node-RED and Watson API's

Join us on Thursday, 13th December for a workshop hosted by IBM's developer advocates.

Hans Boef will build/demonstrate an application which can interact with devices (IoT) such as a coffee machine. First, he will show how this is built and how you connect devices and let them do something. He will use a Raspberry Pi for this. The human interaction with this application makes use of AI: to translate speech into text and the other way around in a contextual way. Another part of this demonstration is how you can send the status of those devices to, for instance, a Slack channel. So it involves more then IoT, it involves also AI, integration with other platforms and it is built with Node-RED which is an open source tool (based on Node.js) very suitable for this.

"Create a fun, simple IoT accelerometer game" with Damiaan Zwietering
We will stream accelerometer data from a couple of smartphones in the audience to the cloud, capture it in a database, and then have a Python script calculate the winner. You will get to learn about MQTT, Node-RED, Apache CouchDB, and Apache Spark along the way, running in the IBM cloud environment:

• Node-RED, which we use to create the IoT application and which we use to stream the data from the sensor to the database
• IoT Platform, which we use as the MQTT message broker to hold it all together
• Cloudant, a NoSQL database system that we use to store the data
• An ApacheSpark SQL script, that tells you who wins
  The smartphones will act as the sensors, streaming the data into our IoT cloud.

AGENDA

18:00 – 18:30 Bites & Bytes
18:30 – 19:15 Introduction Node-RED and Watson API's
19:15 – 19:45 Break
19:45 – 20:30 Create a fun, simple IoT accelerometer game
20:30 – 21:30 Networking & Drinks

We look forward to seeing you there!