{"id":289,"date":"2011-02-16T05:30:03","date_gmt":"2011-02-16T10:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/?p=289"},"modified":"2011-02-16T05:36:08","modified_gmt":"2011-02-16T10:36:08","slug":"thingspeak-is-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/2011\/02\/16\/thingspeak-is-open\/","title":{"rendered":"ThingSpeak is (Open)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our things can tell us a story&#8230;if they have a voice&#8230;if they are connected. What can our things tell us? How about how much power they use? How about if someone is in your house? How about your <a title=\"Social networking for your toaster\" href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/mytoaster\" target=\"_blank\">toaster<\/a> updating Twitter? A new generation of products and services for &#8220;connected things&#8221; are being created as we speak. Be a part of the story&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a title=\"Sign up for ThingSpeak\" href=\"https:\/\/thingspeak.com\/\">ThingSpeak<\/a> is an open <em>web of things<\/em> platform to allow devices to interact with <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">web services<\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">apps<\/span>, and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">things<\/span>. ThingSpeak is open to any type of data from devices and applications. \u00a0ThingSpeak is a cloud service&#8230;things-as-a-service (TaaS)? ThingSpeak is open now.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Open Internet of Things - ThingSpeak\" href=\"https:\/\/thingspeak.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-290 aligncenter\" title=\"ThingSpeak Overview\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/15\/files\/2011\/02\/ThingSpeak-Overview.png\" alt=\"ThingSpeak Overview\" width=\"550\" height=\"239\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Features:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Open API<\/strong> &#8211; connect devices and applications via the Internet to send and\u00a0receive\u00a0data<\/li>\n<li><strong>Multiple Data Types<\/strong> &#8211; numbers (decimal and comma) and alphanumeric strings<\/li>\n<li><strong>Real-time Data Processing<\/strong> &#8211; time scaling, averaging, median, summing, and rounding <\/li>\n<li><strong>Time and Location<\/strong> &#8211; localized\u00a0time, geolocation, latitude, longitude, and elevation<\/li>\n<li><strong>Social Context<\/strong> &#8211; augment data with status updates<\/li>\n<li><strong>Charts<\/strong> &#8211; instant visualization and embed\u00a0tools <\/li>\n<li><strong>Apps<\/strong> &#8211;\u00a0built-in\u00a0apps to connect things to web services<\/li>\n<li><strong>Plugins<\/strong> &#8211; sandbox to create mashups,\u00a0visualizations, and apps<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Get started by <a title=\"Sign up for ThingSpeak web services and applications\" href=\"https:\/\/thingspeak.com\/users\/new\">signing up<\/a> and creating your own channel for your anything you can imagine. We are excited by what you will come up with and the direction that you will take this project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our things can tell us a story&#8230;if they have a voice&#8230;if they are connected. What can our things tell us? How about how much power they use? How about if someone is in your house? How about&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/2011\/02\/16\/thingspeak-is-open\/\">read more >><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[30,17,28,25,29],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":293,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions\/293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}