ThingWorx LiveWorx PTC - IoT Hackathon, Conference and Bootcamp.

Has been a busy IoT week. Participated in the ThingWorx LiveWorx Hackathon last weekend. Our team (Drip IR) went with the Smart Agriculture track - Freight Farm Modbus interface and FLIR camera via Intel Edison to ThingWorx Mashup. Many thanks to the Thingworx hackathon logistics team - Kevin, Sara and everyone.

Liveworx was great. Appreciated the focus on analytics and end business value. Ideas about digital avatars were great for PLM/SLM. The overall vibe of innovation was irresistible.

Great talks by Heppelmann, Fadel and others.

Great reminiscence talk by Steve Wozniak, and then judging of hackathon. Congratulations to winners: Third - Awesome, Second - Rocket Farms, and First for Accessibility - Smart Signs.

LiveWorx Expo hall had many great companies joining the IoT movement.

Only regrets were things I did not have time for - like the IoT Bootcamp. Trying to absorb the Thingworx IoT ethos and technicals as much as possible.

IoT, PTC, LiveWorx, Analytika.

Notices are starting to circulate about PTC LiveWorx 2015. Attended Axeda Connection and PTC LiveWorx last year. Been watching Internet of Things (IoT) in pursuance of making Cimetrics' offerings like Analytika more conformal. Year started with meeting some people from ThingWorx at M2M Miami. Watched as ThingWorx and Axeda started melding into PTC. Attended local events regarding the PTC Smart Connected Products programme.

Good friend of ours, from the energy efficiency and buildings modeling space, joined PTC. Went into high gear regarding analytics, and Cimetrics is now in the ThingWorx partner program. 

The Analytika piece for PTC is mostly about consuming and delivering data for mashups. But there are data connector pathways too. Connections had been a topic we were looking at with Axeda before the acquisition by PTC. Seems everyone is trying to understand how it all fits together. Here is an image from the connectIOT project:

And Cimetrics is still actively pursuing IoT pathways.