ANZ Pied Piper

This article describes the finalist projects of the SEA Pied Piper competition. For a detailed look into the rest of the projects visit the previous post . Lawrence set out a difficult goal for himself, to find alien life in space. For that purpose he built a probe with 5 IoT elements which transmits data back to Mother Earth but at the same time is able to react locally to certain thresholds following the principles of IQT. Not only he made full use of Redis and ECS but he also extracted data from an external API and even used of GCP's Text-to-Speech service to generate spoken alerts on the pretended Earth's Control Center. Lawrence also stole his children's Lego to build a great looking casing for his project. He run out time to add some solar panels for deep space trips ... but apart from that his was a well rounded project that earned him the third position with the same points as Chris. Chris focused heavily on the IoT side of things. He managed to make use of

Back in January we carried out the workshop elements of the Pied Piper program for the South East Asia team in Singapore. At the end of that we announced a competition where each team member had to come up a project using all the knowledge acquired during the workshops. The Fast forward 6 weeks and we have just completed the project reviews. The results? Arguably the best Pied Piper  wave to date. A total of 21 projects, great variety of ideas very nicely executed and presented. Firstly we saw a few environment monitors with sensors on the Raspberry PI. Most of these solutions use Redis from the Pivotal Web Services Marketplace to store the sensor values with a web app running on Cloud Foundry acting as the frontend. This means that the data can be accessed from a smartphone anywhere in the world. Inspired by what appears to be a common problem in Bangkok, Sutthisak worked on a prototype for a parking management solution which is able to report whether parking spots are available