What is a table anyway? Comment

11:36 am on November 18, 2009 ,

In a previous post, I did a quick analysis of the numeric content of webpages. To no one’s great surprise, web pages containing sensor data often contained a greater amount of numeric data. As nice as it would be to leave it at that, it turns out that analysis is a bit too simple for [...]

Discovering new sensor data Comment

1:29 pm on October 9, 2009 ,

While David has been working hard on Sensorpedia’s infrastructure, I’ve been thinking about different ways to automate the process of identifying, tagging, and extracting sensor data from the internet. This would be handy for several reasons. 1) we wouldn’t have to spend valuable human time performing a relatively mundane task and 2) having a sensor [...]

Sensorpedia Milestone: Over 3,000 sensors now registered! 1 Comment

10:40 am on July 30, 2009 ,

I’m happy to announce that we’ve hit a special milestone for Sensorpedia. We now have over 3,000 individual sensors and data sources interfaced with the framework! (3,298 as of Thursday morning July 30th to be exact.) A big thanks to our beta testers and summer interns for all their contributions. Sensorpedia now contains a wide [...]

How To: Setup a Sensorpedia Sensing Station (guide 1) 2 Comments

3:11 pm on January 9, 2009 , , ,

What is Sensorpedia without sensors? This article will be one of a series that detail how to talk to a few different types of sensors, calibrate their data, and interface them with Sensorpedia. These are the sensors we will be connecting (this guide will focus on reading the LM34 analog temperature sensor): Irradiance (digital) Relative [...]