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Welcome to my blog. I just got movabletype running and it's a very robust content management system. I'm mainly going to ramble about different technologies such as M2M, Flash, Symbian OS, as well as other odds and ends. Oh yeah, if you're not familiar with M2M it's seriously a killer technology that you'll hear more and more about in the coming months. M2M stands for:
- Machine to Machine
- Man to Machine
- Mobile to Machine
and basically combine the above any way you like. M2M gives businesses/individuals the ability to remotely monitor and control assets out in the field. This can be wired/wireless and communicate over ethernet, GPRS, SMS, satellite and several other technologies. This is really the tip of the iceberg when it comes to M2M and if you'd like to learn more, check out www.sensorlogic.com.
SensorLogic is the company I work for and we're an M2M application service provider (ASP). I do an extensive amount of Flash, Java, and embedded programming for SensorLogic and let me say that it's the most rewarding and challenging jobs I've ever had. The development team is incredible and everyone brings something different to the table. We mainly focusing on the SensorLogic M2M Portal which allows users to login and monitor/control devices hooked up to their equipment.
For example, lets say that I'm a company that provides antennas for cellphone towers. There's a lot of overhead when it comes to sending someone out to the field, climb the tower, and tilt the antenna. There's risk, money, and time involved just to get one antenna tilted correctly. Antennas need to be tilted at certain angles depending on time of day, coverage, etc. With the SensorLogic M2M Portal the customer can login and remotely monitor and control their antennas. They can even add intelligence to their antennas by creating behaviors that say something like "Tilt these eight antennas to 45 degrees at 6:00PM today". Like I said, this is just the beginning and there's much more to come.
Speaking of Flash....right now we're working on converting the M2M portal to Flash. It currently exists in a JavaScript/DHTML implementation which is VERRRRY SLOW. I'm not going to mention the name of the company we're licensing the JS/DHTML from but let me say we're extremely excited about building it from the ground up in Flash. We're accessing Web Services that our team built and let me tell you it's already much faster and more stable than the current portal. We'll be utilizing quite a bit of Macromedia's V2 components but I can see us writing our own in the near future. Anyway, more to come on the M2M portal conversion!
Posted by dennis baldwin at July 25, 2004 03:54 PM