In the Internet of Things. solutions often require putting together hardware devices, APIs and online services in new and interesting ways.
The time spent on writing the boilerplate code to talk to these different systems, such as accessing a Serial port or completing an OAuth flow against Twitter, is not time spent creating the real value of the solution.
We need tools that make it easier for developers at all levels to bring together the different streams of events, both physical and digital, that make up the Internet of Things.
In this video we present Node-Red, an open source visual tool for wiring the Internet of Things, that takes care of the technicalities and lets you concentrate on the logic of your workflow.