Microsoft Web launches beta Cloud Internet service "Lab of Things"

Tencent Science and Technology (Tom) Beijing time July 16 news, according to foreign media reports, at the local time of Tuesday Staff Summit, Microsoft Research has launched the beta Cloud Internet Services "Lab of things." Lab of things is a tool that allows users to gather different sensor information from the physical world in a simpler way, and allows more people to experiment in different places.

Lab of Things is a system that can link physical data collection with Microsoft Homeos. Homeos is the latest research project unveiled by Microsoft Labs, which tries to make the family a more automated and intelligent system. Specifically, if you want to use sensor data for an experiment, lab of things will provide you with a simple backend terminal. In addition, you can access the current experiments through mobile devices, store and share data in the cloud, and achieve data self-regulation.

To further illustrate the specific function of this service, let us give a concrete example. If you want to start an experiment that needs to collect the top temperature data of the current city's radio towers, you can use Lab of things as your own collection, management, and Analysis tool when you install sensors at the top of the tower and connect the data to the network.

In fact, this service is somewhat similar to Batman's mobile crime database, but "Lab of things" is a real service. On the other hand, Microsoft calls this service "near real Time" (near real-time) experimental tool.

It should be noted that one of the great advantages of Lab of things is that it helps users overcome the barriers between good and real experimentation and no longer requires scientists to become software engineers on a part-time basis. This will make the experiment more complete and reduce the degree of dependence of the experiment on the Fund. At the same time, this service can be considered as large data, cloud, software services and the collection of Internet of things.

Microsoft said: "If you are an academic partner, you will be free to use this service." However, Lab of things allows users to put them into commercial use. ”