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As a PM specially for Respberry Pi product line in Seeed , Xiaobo would like to share some of his views about IoT, ESP8266 WiFi module and some ESP8266 products today. Besides, he’s got an interesting tutorials plan about ESP8266 WiFi module for us in the later few weeks. Should you be a little curious about the tutorials? Me ,too. While today , let’s see what’s fun here in his TALKS about “IoT and ESP8266 WiFi module” first.
You must have heard the term”IoT” somewhere else, like News on TV, friend’s chat…or you searched for an exact definition of it on Wikipedia. The description is too long?Here we get a short version of it: “To make every physical objects online.”
Now how about taking “fridge” as an example.The fridge can record what foods you eat over the past week.,tell you to replenish food and juice when you’re outside, remind you of improving diet structure.
All above could be easily turned into reality only if your fridge is online.
There are three types of IoT:
1. IoT City, network is 3G/4G, Fiber communication or something else
2. IoT Home, network is WiFi, ZigBee …
3. IoT Body, network is Bluetooth Low Energy, Ultrasonic
And today our PM,xiao Bo will talk about WiFi. Yes, it’s about ESP9266 WiFi module.
“What is ESP8266 and Why is ESP8266?”
ESP8266 is a highly integrated chip designed for the needs of a new connected world. It offers a complete and self-contained Wi-Fi networking solution, allowing it to either host the application or to offload all Wi-Fi networking functions from another application processor.
In Xiaobo’s mind , open source friendly,powerful and cheap are the most attractive points of it .
Until now, there’ve built a lot community projects, such as NodeMCU.
“What are we doing with ESP8266 WiFi module? And Next?“
We’re the first company to introduce ESP8266 WiFi module into open source community and we’re cooperating with NodeMCU team to push NodeMCU into this community as well.
You can get full support from Seeed and NodeMCU team in Seeed’s official website and community if you have any question about these products.
The codes of NodeMCU:
The following picture shows how to use it:
It’s a pity that there haven’t been any Grove WiFi module until now though we have produced more than 200 kinds of GROVE modules in the past few years. While an exciting news got from our PM Xiaobo that a serials of Grove WiFi module based on ESP8266 will soon be released on Seeed official website.Aha,then it could be the time to say good-bye to WiFi Shield…
Here is a sample of Grove WiFi module based on ESP8266.
“Next and more”
“Seeeders are building some more interesting projects about IoT and ESP8266. Maybe it’s not a suitable to release them now ,but what I can promise is that our new Grove products combined with wifi can surprise you in the near future .”
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