Science and Exploration

Augmented Reality: Pachube: Imagine Using this on the Moon and Mars

By Keith Cowing
May 24, 2013
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“Pachube is a web service available at http://www.pachube.com that enables people to tag and share real time sensor & environmental data from objects, devices, buildings and spaces around the world. The key aim is to facilitate interaction between remote environments, both physical and virtual. Apart from enabling direct connections between any two responsive environments, it can also be used to facilitate many-to-many connections: just like a physical “patch bay” (or telephone switchboard) Pachube enables any participating project to “plug-in” to any other participating project in real time. Think of it as a generalized real time broker for networked objects and environments that helps you build the Internet of Things.”

“Pachube is a web service available at http://www.pachube.com that enables people to tag and share real time sensor & environmental data from objects, devices, buildings and spaces around the world. The key aim is to facilitate interaction between remote environments, both physical and virtual. Apart from enabling direct connections between any two responsive environments, it can also be used to facilitate many-to-many connections: just like a physical “patch bay” (or telephone switchboard) Pachube enables any participating project to “plug-in” to any other participating project in real time. Think of it as a generalized real time broker for networked objects and environments that helps you build the Internet of Things.”

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