[HH] gbcacm/ieee talk on "The Cloud meets Bluetooth Smart" Tue April 1 at MIT

[Tom Metro]

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Subject: gbcacm/ieee talk on "The Cloud meets Bluetooth Smart"
         Tue April 1 at MIT
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 01:17:56 +0000
From: Greater Boston Chapter of the ACM

IEEE Computer and Consumer Electronics Societies and GBC/ACM

7:00 PM, Tuesday, 1 April 2014

MIT room E51-345

The Cloud meets Bluetooth Smart

Joe Decuir

Bluetooth Low Energy, aka Bluetooth Smart, can wirelessly connect
sensors that run on coin cells or scavenged power for years. That makes
Bluetooth Smart attractive for implementing the "Internet of Things".
The missing piece: connecting these devices to the Internet. The
Bluetooth Special Interest Group has just published a pair of RESTful
APIs . These APIs, implemented in a gateway, can allow an Internet
client application to find, connect and operate Bluetooth Smart servers:
sensors and effectors. The presentation will cover: what is Bluetooth
Smart? How does it work? How does the energy get so low? How the
client-server architecture works. How to fit a RESTful API to that
architecture. Use cases. Perspective with other connectivity methods.
For reference: on IEEE Xplore, see articles on Bluetooth Smart in IEEE
CES Magazine for January 2014 and April 2014.

Joe Decuir was one of the original engineers at Atari, who helped
design, build, and produce the Atari 2600. He also wrote the game Video
Olympics, a Pong collection that launched with the system. He later went
on to help develop the Amiga, many modems (including the first fax
modem) and the USB architecture. you can read more about Joe at
http://gbcacm.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c62c7d9774fda54a84a0c28df&id=197493786e&e=95529a85d3
.

Joe is still having an interesting career. Highlights: video game
graphics, wired connectivity and wireless connectivity. His day job is
to advance wireless connectivity, as a Standards Architect for CSR, as
the chairman of the Bluetooth Internet Working Group, and as a
Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Consumer Electronics Society. For a
hobby, he is also vice chair of the IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology
Conference for 2014.

This joint meeting of the Boston Chapters of the IEEE Computer and
Consumer Electronics Societies and GBC/ACM will be held in MIT Room
E51-345.   E51 is the Tang Center on the corner of Wadsworth and Amherst
Sts and Memorial Dr.; it's mostly used by the Sloan School. You can see
it on this map of the MIT campus. Room 345 is on the 3rd floor.