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Joint Webinar on Node-RED with IBM

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…

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…

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…