Why are Logistics Carriers so Bad with Data?

Just to be clear when I say Logistic Carriers I mean UPS, DHL, DSV, GLS and many other three letter companies that deliver your Christmas presents, but in a business context they are also responsible for B2B deliveries of goods to shops and warehouses. I’ve previously worked in Logistics for many years and so have …

IoT Sensors – Saving Collected Data

Now that my sensors are successfully collecting data and the data is being processed by a Node-RED flow on my Raspberry Pi the final step is to add some persistence to the data. As it stands the data is constantly streaming and being displayed on a dashboard but after that it’s discarded so there’s no …

IoT Sensors – Data Collection

In the first part I talked mostly about the sensors and the gateway so in this article I’ll show you how to collect, filter and store that data from the sensors. My setup is running locally on my LAN and uses a Raspberry Pi 3B+ to process the data. I’ll be using Node-RED to process …

How to use Amazon S3 from KNIME

This post follows on from my S3 post usng Node-RED so you can read that for a brief into to S3. Using S3 with KNIME is extremely easy as there is already an S3 node available to install. Amazon S3 Connection The only node that needs installing is the Amazon S3 Connection. All the other …

IoT Sensors – Getting Started

Introduction I’ve been interested in setting up some home monitoring/automation since getting my first Raspberry Pi a couple of years ago. After using the device for various development projects I finally decided on my first project, try to make a basic home temperature/humidity monitor that cold measure both indoor and outdoors. The idea is to …

IoT with Node-RED and Python

Now I have two Raspberry Pis running, one as a Bitcoin full node and the other mostly used as a dev/experimentation machine I decided it’s time to put the dev machine to some use. I’d also like to learn more about IoT (Internet of Things) and how they are wired together and communicate so this …

Introduction to Image Classification using UiPath and Python

After my previous post showing image classification using UiPath and Python generated many questions about how to implement the same I decided to expand upon the theme and give a more detailed description about how to achieve this. My starting point was thinking how I might integrate UiPath with python now that it’s integrated within the platform. I find …

How to use Amazon S3 from Node-RED

Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) is a very commonly used object storage solution that’s cheap to use and highly reliable. Think of it as a file system in the cloud with enterprise features that you can use to store almost anything. Amazon S3 This guide assumes you already have a working Amazon S3 account and …

Monitoring a Bitcoin Node Using Node-RED

Now my Bitcoin Full Node is fully synchronized and running I thought it would be good to set up some simple monitoring to check it’s still up and up to date with the Bitcoin Blockchain. Bitnodes API Helpfully there’s already a site that monitors all the full nodes and also provides a handy API at …

Uploading Files Over SSH Using KNIME

If you have SSH access to a server and want an easy, visual way of uploading files that can be automated and scheduled then using KNIME works great. Fortunately KNIME already has an SSH Connection node so the set up is very easy. The basic flow is as follows: Make a connection the ssh server …