Raspberry 2 versus Intel Edison

I’m preparing, for my work, a presentation on IoT and researching.

I was searching some more detailed information regarding Edison power consumption.

By chance I came across several benchmarks comparing Edison with RPI 2.

It was my surprise to discover that Edison is as powerful as (if not more powerful) than RPI 2.

Worth to have a look:

http://www.davidhunt.ie/raspberry-pi-2-benchmarked/

IBM Bluemix, IoT and Coursera

Mooc from companies like Coursera are a great way for improving your knowledge and acquire new skills and competencies.

I have recently completed this course on IBM IoT Cloud platform

https://www.coursera.org/learn/developer-iot

I have found really interesting:

• The rising importance of JavaScript and NodeJS for IoT development
• How is easy to develop Gateways and Cloud based applications for real-time handling of telemetry data, using Visual Language NodeRED (based on NodeJS)
• How IBM Bluemix works
• The central role played by MQTT (well, it was invented by IBM)

If you need more insight into IBM Bluemix IoT and in general IoT Cloud platforms, I would recommend this course. Worth spending some euro to get a Verified Certificate.