Call today 0845 643 6463

Tag Archive: IoT

  • Business Intelligence in Azure – SQLBits 2018 Precon

    November 17th, 2017 in Azure, Blog, Community

    What can you expect from my SQLBits pre conference training day in February 2018 at the London Olympia? Well my friends, in short, we are going to take whirlwind tour of the entire business intelligence stack of services in Azure. No stone will be left unturned. No service will be left without scalability. We’ll cover them all and we certainly aren’t going to check with the Azure bill payer before turning up the compute on our data…

    » Read more

  • My SQL Relay 2016

    October 12th, 2016 in Blog, Community, IoT, Just For Fun, Purple Frog Systems

    In 2015 I attended a SQL Relay day in Birmingham, as a humble attendee with a colleague. I sat on the edge of my seat in every session soaking up all I could from the speakers. I remember being in awe of these technical rock stars that gave their knowledge to the community. A community that was strongly bonded and recognised by many sponsors. In 2016 the humble attendee was long gone. I was now heavily involved supporting operational…

    » Read more

  • Installing Windows 10 IoT Core On Your Raspberry Pi

    August 15th, 2016 in Blog, IoT, Raspberry Pi, Windows

    At a recent SQL Server User Group in Birmingham I presented an end to end IoT solution streaming data from sensors on a Raspberry Pi 3. What followed the talk was a very simple question from an audience member asking basically; how do you get started with doing this? It then occurred to me that I had missed out the vital information for getting the Windows 10 IoT Core operating system (OS) onto the device. In the following article I hope to…

    » Read more

  • Windows IoT UWP Tasks Tickers and Threading

    July 22nd, 2016 in Azure, Blog, C#, IoT, JSON, UWP, Windows

    Upon entering the IoT revolution a few things immediately became apparent; We now had the ability to collect and handle more sensor data than we’d ever before possibly conceived. These sensors and there data will/are going to change the very way we live… Not convinced by this one? Talk to anybody that has a Fitbit attached to their wrist about how many steps they do each day! More relevant to this article. The procedural tools we…

    » Read more

  • Controlling Your Windows 10 IoT Core Device

    June 16th, 2016 in Blog, IoT, PowerShell, Raspberry Pi, Windows

    If like me you have a several Raspberry Pi’s doing different things and running different operating systems controlling them can sometimes be a bit of a challenge, especially with a wealth of remote control protocols and command line tools to choose from. In this post I’m specifically exploring the different ways to control your Raspberry Pi running Windows 10 IoT Core. The thing that surprised me…

    » Read more