Cool IoT Video

Cool stuff.

Remembers me of an event I went to last year. In this case the presenter wore a fitbit (*cough*) and wrote an app that sent his heart rate to Microsoft azure. He had implemented an event that once his hr hit a threshold it sent out an email. Of course to get his hr to raise he had to do some exercise and he thought of nothing better than to run up on the stairs in the theatre in between us (The audience). The first run through the theatre didnt rise his hr high enough so he had to go for another round.  Funny but the demo worked in the end. :)

Blimey wasn't expecting to see that on the forum, thanks for the link! The video is mine, and the source for the app and instructions on how to set up the infrastructure are at https://github.com/davedoesdemos/ConnectIQ-Watch-IoT. There are a few more videos planned in the series, these will be using Azure Machine Learning to detect unusual heart rates and flag them (this is a very simple demo, so unusual here will be "not resting"). Then I'll be creating something in the watch to detect trips and falls using the accelerometer data and send alerts off to the cloud service. We plan to use this with healthcare customers alongside Dynamics to show how we could dispatch health workers to vulnerable people if they fall. All for demo purposes at the moment, of course, but it shows off the ConnectIQ and Azure platforms very nicely and lets me play with my Garmin devices at work :)
Part 2 is at https://youtu.be/9llyGjfKiLo

Also I plan to eventually create the SAS token on the device, I've just not had time yet

With CIQ 3.1, there's also kind of the flip side of this, where the watch can talk to IoT devices using BLE.  The SDK includes a couple of sample apps that talk to the Nordic Thingy52.  I know someone that's also looking into a few other things.

Technically that would be BTLE sensors I think, rather than IoT but I did mention in the content that external sensors can be used to add more info in the app. The key here was using the Garmin ecosystem to lower the barrier of entry into IoT using a ConnectIQ device as the "thing", and using the plethora of Garmin and other sensors whether Ant or BTLE is a huge bonus there. I'd love to see a pull request adding external sensor support in the app if you'd like to add it

I've now updated my app code at https://github.com/davedoesdemos/ConnectIQ-Watch-IoT to include settings and in watch SAS token generation. These changes will allow this app to be configurable to any Azure Event Hub to send data easily to the cloud for processing or machine learning. I've also, as a result, finally submitted the app to the app store so that others can play with IoT without writing their own apps. Hopefully this will be useful to some other people