Hi Giovanni,
Thank you very much for your prompt response and advice. I am not an AI researcher. I am just a simple physicist and sometime software developer. I am designing a prototype for a start up, and I am thinking of having my prototype use Almond as an information resource.
I don’t think Home Assistant is the approach we want to use, since we don’t need to monitor static local sensors. Rather, we need to collect data from anywhere on an as-needed basis. One scenario might be something like this:
- We, for various reasons and in various ways, receive a set geolocation coordinates.
- We go to an IoT search engine like Thingful.net, and search for sensors that collect the sort of data we need.
- We identify the particular sensor that we will use.
- We go to Almond and request the data from that sensor.
Of course, we would use Almond for many other things, but to get started I would like to choose a simple scenario with simple data, and implement it so that I can learn the nuts and bolts of how to connect and request and receive data. Does that make sense?
I have set up a temperature monitor on Almond using a local weather site, but now I would like to try something closer to our real application. So I guess my questions are 1) Are there simple IoT sensors that I can read out through Almond from my own little application running from work, and if so, 2) what sensor should I use? I don’t really care what the sensor is measuring or where it is, to get started.
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