We here at Exosite like to test new devices and get them reporting data to our platform. One of my first tasks was to get the Terminus GSM864Q talking, so it could be used to monitor a water pump for an agriculture project.

Exosite's XMPP chat interface is incredibly easy to work with. In fact, if you know how to chat with someone using an instant messenger app, then you can start chatting with your real time data! We have an XMPP bot (the JID address is commander@m2.exosite.com) that can receive and respond to chat messages.

Part of the Exosite team attended CloudCamp Twin Cities last week. For those not familiar with CloudCamp, it is “an unconference where early adopters of Cloud Computing technologies exchange ideas.” During an unconference, all the panels and breakout sessions are generated on the fly and led by the attendees. Why were we there? The Exosite team wanted to check out what local people were saying about cloud technologies.

Our last announcement mentioned that Exosite Portals has the ability to make your dashboards public. Now we have created a list of public dashboards where you can view live data others are monitoring.