Does your office have a weather system?
I wrote a post a while back when I purchased my iobridge module which you can use to control switched and sensor. After that post I had my module rigged up in my office at home just monitoring the room temperature and ambient light hourly, I wasn’t sure what i could do with this data at the time so using the Google Ajax API I displayed the data using 2 graphs purely as a bit of fun. Now i’ve decided to take it a stage further.
Using a feed from the BBC weather I’ve mashed up the data that i get from the temperature sensor with the weather feed to predict what the ‘weather’ will be like in my office. As a feature for my site (as i spend most of my time in my office) you can see what the weather’s like in my office at anytime by clicking the link in the menu at the top right of any page. We’re approaching winter over here in the UK so the temperature is dropping.
I thought it was a different way of displaying this kind of data by making it a bit fun, and you never know i may extend it in the future to include other aspects. I have a light sensor which is in full operation, which can be seen from the original mash-up here.
View The Latest Office Weather
Amazing. This could be used so much other cool stuff too, will you be buying more iobridge hardware? It could tweet out when the digfference between the weather outside as reported by the BBC and the weather inside are more different than say 5 degrees. Not sure why like…
@Will thanks for the comment, good idea, i’ll look into this for future development!
Yes! I totally love it! Lots of potential here, for example, you could take multiple feeds from across the web (like blogs, news etc) then you could display them along side your current office temperature. This could be really useful.
You could even take it one step further and record your office temperature when say, a new posting appears on TechCrunch. That would be awesome.
How Cool! I think the IOBridge just landed at the top of my christmas wish-list.
@Shawn thanks, I’d recommend to anyone, well worth getting, there is so much you can do with it.
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