derrickoswald

267

My Story

Derrick is an electrical engineer by training with over thirty years experience in software design, development, testing, deployment, maintenance and troubleshooting. In the past Derrick was primarily focused on CIM and Spark, and before that CAD, manufacturing and GIS industries, with experience also in utilities, chemical production, architectural, civil, mining and other industries, but currently is into big data and machine learning in the cloud security space.

Projects

Personal log

People are heading home. Some of them will pick it up tomorrow.

6 months ago

Murmurs of technical discussions. Serious concentration.

6 months ago

Just the clicking of keys and mice...

6 months ago

There was a long wide-ranging discussion about the achievable goal for the Hackdays. The general gist was to establish a middleware layer handling each meter's unique format to "re-publish" the data in a common format, but there was no agreement yet on what that format would be.

6 months ago

Currently setting up smart meters with loads, the MQTT broker; publisher; subscriber etc., Slack sign-in, documentation review and all the other tasks that starting up a Hackdays involve.

6 months ago

All four meters feeding into MQTT, forwarded to InfluxDB and re-published under a uniform basic profile back to MQTT. Visualization using Grafana and OpenHub in place.

1 year ago