Pachube

Pachube (public launch 2008, acquired by LogMeIn Inc for $15m in 2011 and rebranded as ‘Xively’) was one of the world’s first generalised data platforms and communities for the Internet of Things (IoT), that at its height handled millions of datapoints per day from thousands of individuals, organisations & companies around the world. It’s global community used the service to store, manage, discover and share open data from all sorts of networked devices and sensors, including electricity meters, weather stations, building management systems, air quality monitors, biosensors, geiger counters and even water-level sensors in sewers. After a brief period interning soon after Pachube was founded in 2008, I became it’s third employee, remaining with the start-up through it’s rapid expansion until it’s acquisition in 2011. During this time I had a broad range of responsibilities, from presenting at conferences, leading numerous workshop as well as expanding the scope of the service across various network technologies. This included designing and developing various mobile applications including the official Pachube iPhone app, and ‘Porthole’ an augmented reality data visualisation app which led to my participation in the first W3C Web Standard Committee meeting on AR in 2010. I also wrote Pachube plug-ins for external software platforms including Second Life and SketchUp. For my work on Pachube 2010 I was nominated alongside Usman Haque and Sam Mulube for a Design Museum - ‘Design of The Year Award’ in the Interactive Category.