Entries by Marc Pous

GlobalRider: Traveling the world with a connected motorbike

Ever dream of traveling the world? Of venturing off to far places that you’ve never been before? Hugo Scagnetti of Telefonica has, and he will do it with a connected motorbike in 80 days, but his reason why may surprise you. After suffering a major leg injury two years ago from avascular necrosis, Scagnetti vowed that if […]

thethings.iO and emotionsAR cloud printing use case

Under the claim “Images that come alive” there is the company emotionsAR. emotionsAR is a B2B SaaS platform for photography professionals that allows users turn their pictures into life. With EmotionsAR’ app, you can see how pictures come alive: you can add motion, interactivity and sound to your images. But its business model goes further, […]

IFTTT, LIFX and thethings.iO

One of the most popular services that helped the Internet of Things to reach a great critical mass is IFTTT. IFTTT means if this then that. IFTTT is a fantastic IoT platform that allow people build recipes, triggers or actions with several connected devices and services. thethings.iO + IFTTT Actually at thethings.iO we love IFTTT. […]

Connect Twitter to IoT with thethings.iO

As you probably know, it is possible to combine social media tools, such as Twitter, Facebook or Instagram, with the Internet of Things. In this post we are going to make a quick view of how to use our IoT platform, thethings.iO, in order to allow your things tweet what they are doing or experiencing. […]

Monitoring the sausages from Casa Tarradellas

Lately at thethings.iO, we have been working on several interesting projects. And finally we can announce one of our favourites and related to the science world! Keep reading if you want to know more… DISCLAIMER: This is an April’s fools 2016 post. Hope to see this happen in the next 5 years 😛 Internet connected […]

6 steps to connect your first device to thethings.iO

Now it’s even easier to start with the Internet of Things with our platform, thethings.iO. In this post we are going to show you all the improvements we have made to make your first experience even better! Follow our on-boarding process to start sending data from a device in just 6 easy steps: Step 0: Create […]

Connect a thermostat with OpenMote and thethings.iO

During the last months we have seen dozens of amazing projects being connected at thethings.iO. Here we are going to show you how to connect a heating system and a thermostat for your house using thethings.iO as the IoT platform and OpenMote as a hardware. This project was made by Roberto Romero Jotel as his […]