Edward presenting with Adam Mollenkopf (Esri GeoEvent team) at the keynote plenary of the 2014 Esri Federal GIS Conference in Washington DC.
Last week in Washington DC we had the opportunity to demo Valarm’s real-time sensor networks in front of over 3000 people at the Esri Federal GIS Conference! On stage in the keynote plenary at the Washington DC convention center, we demonstrated live sensor data being forwarded from Tools.Valarm.net to the Esri GeoEvent Extension, Operations Dashboard, and ArcGIS Server.
The story we presented involved the National Guard being called in to carry supplies to storm victims after a natural disaster evacuation. By integrating sensors with the emergency operations center, supplies were safely transported to a supply shelter for emergency victims. In the demo we used:
- Air quality sensors – CO2 / carbon dioxide and VOCs / volatile organic compounds
- Micro-climate weather sensor – ambient temperature, relative humidity, and barometric pressure
- Light sensor – lumens / lux
- Knob sensor – triggers / switches / electrical resistance
to measure environmental factors as well as monitor a truck door opening and closing.
Truck equipped with Valarm sensors to monitor trailer doors opening and closing.
Team Valarm also taught two professional development workshops with Adam Mollenkopf and RJ Sunderman of the Esri GeoEvent Processor team. In the workshops the audience learned the details of how the keynote plenary presentation demo was set up using standard Android devices with the Valarm Pro app. The Android devices push data to Valarm’s cloud SaaS Tools.Valarm.net via WiFi or 3G/4G over an encrypted channel.
Tools.Valarm.net offers multiple Industrial IoT sensor data APIs including:
- GeoRSS
- KML
- CSV
- JSON
Since we are primarily concerned with real-time data in the case of the Esri GeoEvent Processor, we’ve implemented a push interface which forwards the sensor data to a REST endpoint on the GeoEvent Processor in real-time.
At the conference we found great interest in Valarm from a variety of federal organizations and consultants including EPA, NOAA, Weston Solutions, and SAP. Valarm’s solutions for affordable monitoring and sensor networks along with our presentation in the keynote plenary made this conference one of our busiest yet.
Next is the Esri Partner Conference and Dev Summit starting the 2nd weekend of March. We’re excited to continue growing and monitoring anything, anywhere.
Valarm sensor networks and Esri GeoEvent Processor on stage at Fed GIS 2014
The one pager with Valarm info from the conference is available here as a PDF.
