Webinar with the IBM Node-RED team We were recently invited by the IBM Node-RED team to co-present a webinar for the IBM Developer works. From IBM, Nick O’Leary and Dave Conway Jones – who are the original developers of Node-RED – presented an update on Node-RED and we followed up with a discussion of FRED and how our customers are…
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Newsletter #7 from the FRED (Cloud based Node-RED) team at Sense Tecnic
News from the FRED (Node-RED) team at Sense TecnicIn this issue: Industrial IoT – Predix nodes Shared dashboards – easy upgrade How FRED works New and updated nodes Previous newsletters: http://sensetecnic.com/the-fred-newletter/ Industrial IoT – using GE Predix For those of you interested in the Industrial IoT (IIoT) you may want to check out some new nodes we’ve recently written and…
How FRED (Cloud Node-RED) works
We recently presented a paper at the 2016 ACM middleware conference describing some of the internal details of FRED, as well as some info on how our customers are using FRED (and Node-RED) for their projects and products. The slide deck we used for the presentation can be seen here A preprint version of the paper is available here: MOTA-Middleware2016-preprintV2 Please…
Using FRED (Node-RED) with GE Predix
New nodes and tutorial – GE Predix (Industrial IoT) For those of you interested in the Industrial IoT (IIoT) you may want to check out some new nodes we’ve recently developed. These are nodes to allow access to the GE Predix platform. GE recently announced it’s platform for the Industrial IoT, named Predix, it focuses on the security and reliability…
FRED (Cloud Node-RED) newsletter #6
News from the FRED team at Sense Tecnic New Node – SQLite We’ve had several requests for the popular SQLite node for FRED. This is a powerful SQL database, running in a single file in your filestore. It offers all the power of SQL but is fast and efficient and doesn’t require you to set up an SQL…
Newsletter #6 from the FRED (Cloud based Node-RED) team at Sense Tecnic
News from the FRED team at Sense Tecnic New nodes and tutorial – Samsung Artik We’ve created and released a set of nodes for the Samsung Artik IoT boards. These are designed to run under Node-RED on the boards themselves and provide access to, and control of the hardware pins including analogue and digital IO and pwm. If you pair…
Sense Tecnic (and Node-RED) join the newly formed JavaScript foundation
We’re pleased to announce that we’ve joined the newly created JavaScript foundation – part of the Linux Foundation – which was launched today. The JS foundation will provide a home for a whole host of JS based projects, including Node-RED. We wanted to join as a founding member partly because we’ve been active…
Node-RED as a managed cloud service
FRED, our cloud based version of Node-RED is a great tool for developers who want to use it for rapid development of IoT apps. The combination of a visual drag ‘n drop interface and set of pre-built nodes makes it easy to quickly develop IoT apps. But FRED is also available as a branded, or white label service for you…
New nodes for Node-RED on the Samsung Artik
We’ve recently released a set of nodes we have developed for the Samsung Artik boards (Artik 5 & 10). These nodes give you direct access to the hardware features of the boards including the hardware I/O pins, the ADC and the PWM. The Nodes have been published to the NPM repository – you can download and install them directly to…
Dynamic node management released
Now available: Dynamic node management We’ve released our new dynamic node management feature that allows you to dynamically add and remove nodes from your palette. When you startup FRED, you’ll see a reduced set of nodes (similar to the vanilla Node-RED). However, you can now add and remove nodes from our extended set as you wish – making it possible to only…