BEGIN:VCALENDAR BEGIN:VEVENT CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20240319T063920 DESCRIPTION:This workshop demonstrates the use of your Android™ mobile phone or tablet as an “internet of things” device, streaming real sensor data to a cloud-based application for analysis and display, and receiving commands in return. You will use an app on your phone that communicates with a cloud-based application that you will build using IBM Bluemix and the Watson IoT Platform service. The lab starts you off with Node-RED, but many other services are available for your experimentation. IBM Watson IoT Platform is where you can set up and manage your connected devices, and is provided as a set of integrated Bluemix services. Bluemix is an environment to quickly create, deploy, and manage applications in the cloud. IBM Watson IoT Platform enables you to securely connect many types of devices from simple sensors to intelligent appliances and industrial components. With ease, you can develop and deploy your own custom enterprise-scale IoT solutions. The platform’s rich analytics and cloud-based connectivity provide you with the insights you need for market innovation and business transformation. In this hands-on workshop, your Android or iOS phone or tablet will be the IoT device. An app that is running on your device will publish its Accelerometer data (accel events), and this data will be received by another app that you build on the cloud using Bluemix. To show the ability for bidirectional communication with your connected IoT device, your cloud-resident app will respond to the device with commands (color commands) to change the background color of the IoT device’s screen. Course Outline below: