Pachube is a web service available at www.pachube.com that enables you to store, share & discover realtime sensor, energy and environment data from objects, devices & buildings around the world. Pachube is a convenient, secure & scalable platform that helps you connect to & build the 'internet of things'.
As a generalized realtime data brokerage platform, the key aim is to facilitate interaction between remote environments, both physical and virtual. Apart from enabling direct connections between any two 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 so that, for example, buildings, interactive environments, networked energy meters, virtual worlds and mobile sensor devices can all "talk" and "respond" to each other.
Pachube acts between environments, able both to capture input data (from remote sensors) and serve output data (to remote actuators). Connections can be made between any two environments, facilitating even spontaneous or previously unplanned connections. Apart from being used in physical environments, it also enables people to embed this data in web-pages, in effect to "blog" sensor data.
Pachube makes it simple to build applications, products and services that bridge physical and virtual worlds. With a rapid development cycle (it can take just one line of code to start prototyping), and a sophisticated development path (working with both web-protocols and data formats that are interoperable with construction industry formats) people have used Pachube to build sensor-logging systems, remote monitoring apps, integrate building management systems, develop geo-tracking systems, create mashups and networked objects and a whole host of other things.
Relevant URLs:
- http://www.pachube.com/ (the home of Pachube)
- http://www.ugotrade.com/2009/01/28/pachube-patching-the-planet-interview-with-usman-haque/(interview with Pachube's founder)
Use Pachube to:
- Monitor environments, log sensors & share realtime data
- Connect together devices, homes, energy meters & the world
- Embed dynamic realtime graphs in your own website or blog
- Route Pachube feeds to other web services & APIs
- See how people use Pachube & ask questions in the forum
- Save favourites, contact other users & share statistics
- Browse by map view or list view
- Search for feeds or browse by tag
- Track environments in RSS or Atom format
