I am excited to announce that I have been working recently with my friend and former co-author, David Castillo, on his foundational class for IoT and AWS cloud services. I launched a new web blogging website at viotlabs.com (pronounced “VIE-oh-TEE Labs” ) to track my progress. My thought is that the current JonathanKaye.com platform would be about thoughts in general and vIoT Labs would be specifically what I am doing in what I coined as vIoT. More on this naming later.
David Castillo has spent the last several years on the forefront of these technologies, so I am quite honored for this opportunity. The class is based on David’s extensive experience in telemetry, command and control, machine learning, and edge computing, primarily but not limited to AWS. Furthermore, David and I have discussed numerous connections between device simulations and IoT, but I don’t want to ruin any surprises about our direction at this time.
I do have to say it has been quite fun getting into this area, exploring Node-Red and Arduino, as well as the magnificent Bosch XDK 110 development board. On the cloud services side, I’ve been learning AWS IoT Core, of course, and foundational services such as Lambda, Cognito (OAuth 2.0/OpenID), S3, DynamoDB, Alexa, and Step Functions, among others.
Because of this direction, I expect I will be posting on vIoT Labs about my adventure in getting the materials together, hopefully to help others along the journey. In the next few days I am going to make a post there about the various Arduino boards I have setup, which are part of the class.