[davidu]

This is cool, but I think your description is a misnomer. This is a dashboard for Internet-connected devices that provide various readings and status updates.

In my world (enterprise security) -- "Internet of Things" generally means the connectedness of many things at scale. So when I saw the description I got really excited that it'd be a dashboard to help monitor a million devices, or help surface intelligence from the temperature readings of 100,000 sensors across a farmland. Or 500,000 energy meters. Etc. That's what will be cool when people figure out how to do. How do you surface intelligence insights and the data that matters from an avalanche of data coming out of 100's of 1000's or even millions of devices. :-)

That's a free business idea, because not many folks are doing this yet, and none are doing it well.

[dang]

We changed the title on your recommendation. We also turned off the voting ring detector so this post would be on the front page, because we want to see original work on HN.

(All: A voting ring is when people get their friends to upvote their posts. This is against the rules; we want stories because they're good, not because they're being promoted. Also, it's not in your interests. Even when we override the ring detector like this, which is rare, other penalties for ring-voting still apply.)

[Bug_Labs]

Great point! Freeboard is great for humanizing a single device, or multiple datasources at a time, but when you get into 100s of thousands of devices, freeboard can be used to visualize an analytics engine.

By the way, you can use dweet.io to fill that database or analytics enginge to your hearts desire. Then use freeboard to see what is happening in that database!

[davidu]

Cool, cool. Nice work.

[grahamburger]

I'm doing something similar to that with Zabbix. Admittedly not yet to that scale.

[dholowiski]

But... this could be the front end for Zabbix measurements!