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Every good plant mom (or dad) knows there are two important things to keep your indoor plants alive: light and water. Seems easy, right?

Breast milk to brisket and vaccines to embryos. Build a reliable freezer temperature monitoring and alarm system for under 30 bucks

Initial State’s new Bucket Watchdog service will alert you when your sensors stop reporting data

Building your own DIY solution to remotely monitor your boat’s battery levels, shore power, bilge pump cycles, and temperature.

Nothing wreaks havoc on your crawl space like excess moisture. Learn how to remotely monitor crawl space humidity w/ dashboards & alerts.

Being a Tornado Survivor, I use many ways to get weather alerts. I made a weather dashboard that can text me based on my custom criteria.

How to build your own ESP32 temperature monitor

This tutorial will show you how to create a geofence to automatically send a SMS from your Tesla when you get close to a location.

This tutorial will show you how you can connect your Tesla to a web service to create historical data dashboards and custom trigger alerts.

School safety is on everyone’s mind but no one more than students.

I talk all the time with other developers about productivity in a data-less sort way. “I felt Really productive today!” or maybe “I don’t…

Students are getting the experience I wish I had when I as in high school and middle school.

How do you take a perfectly good beer or wine fridge and make it smart?

Temperature and humidity are vital data points in today’s industrial world. Monitoring environmental data for server rooms, commercial…

There are so many articles, books, and other resources online that will tell you the hard and fast rules of how to design a great…

The universal view of pie charts is that they suck. You throw one of these into your PowerPoint presentation and you better be prepared to…

When I first got my iPhone. I developed a crowd-pleasing party trick to make the screen look transparent. Take a picture of your hand…

Initial State provides unparalleled flexibility when building real-time data visualizations. Unsplash provides millions of high-resolution…

NI puts on an incredible show every year, and Initial State took advantage of the incredible opportunity to exhibit at NI Week 2019. At…

Node Red is a browser based programming tool, particularly for IoT, that allows you to connect code blocks that accomplish tasks.

This story is not my own, but it was one so compelling I wanted to share it with others.

Temperature and humidity sensors can be invaluable data collection tools when deployed in your home, office, lab, manufacturing line…

If you are building projects in Python, there is a good chance you will want to capture some sort of data on occasion. You might even want…

If you have a set of sensors or an application streaming data over a long period of time, there is a good chance you are, at some point…