Simulation with IBM Watson

If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.

-Thomas J. Watson - Former CEO of IBM

First Simulation with IBM Watson

What do you need for this simulation? Read from a list below:

  1. One or two devices with a web browser for simulation
  2. Open mind!

IBM Quickstart

The IBM Quickstart service is your first step into IoT simulations. Quickstart uses a simulated device that mimics a smart thermostat in real life. It has different controls for temperature, humidity, and object temperature that you can change in real-time. These values are read by the Quickstart service to display the data coming from the device.

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Everything is being wired up or connected wirelessly. Architecture, energy efficient sensing, secure networks, quality of service, new protocols, participatory sensing, data mining, GIS based visualization, cloud computing, and international activities. It simply means that powerful information will be at our fingertips.

In this task, you will learn how to make your first IoT simulated project

This project uses only simulated devices and is a perfect task as a first IoT project. Follow the steps and surely you will be able to do this task.

Connecting a simulated device with IBM Watson

This works best by using the first device to control the sensor and the second device to view the data.

How can you do it?

  1. To view the sensor, go to http://quickstart.internetofthings.ibmcloud.com/iotsensor. Simulation connects automatically and starts publishing data. Note that the simulator needs to be connected for data visualization.
  2. Use simulator buttons to change the simulated sensor.

There are three different simulated sensors:

  • Object temperature
  • Temperature
  • Humidity

Visualizing Your Data

  1. Check the device ID of the simulated device, it's a mix of numbers and letters in the top right corner
  2. Enter the ID into the box this link: IBM Watson IoT Platform
  3. Visualize your data with Quickstart!

See the Values Change in Real Time

  1. Change values in the simulated device.
  2. See the changes in Quickstart.

You can see the different sensors' data by clicking the names at the bottom of the Quickstart page.

Summary

This is how data from smart devices is collected in real life and the same exercise could be done with a real smart thermostat.

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