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Industry Partners Pledge Support to the Pycom GOINVENT Workshop Series.
Electronic chip manufacturers, distributors and network partners alike have come together to support Pycom’s developer community initiative The GOINVENT World Series. It’s a 2-year program that brings Pycom and partner teams to all regions of the world to teach,...
New! Pymakr in the Cloud
Program straight from the Cloud without downloading an IDE We've added Pymakr to Pybytes. It's now easier than ever to get up and running with your IoT project. Grab your Pycom dev kit, log into Pybytes and follow our software developer Pedro through this...
New! Pymesh on Pybytes – Video Tutorial
Decentralise your LoRa network with Pymesh and manage it from the Cloud. Aline, one of our Pybytes Team members talks through how to set up your LoRa Pymesh on your Pybytes account and monitor your devices in the mesh afterwards. As you will see it’s now easier than...
Smart Metering Networks with LoRaWAN
With a growing population, it comes as no surprise that we’re consuming more and more energy every year. The International Energy Agency expects global energy demand to increase by 37% by 2040, which would put incredible strain on energy supplies. Springing from this...
We’re in this Together
This global pandemic is affecting us all but we can all help make things better I am still thinking of those days in November 2019 when there was mention of an outbreak of Coronavirus in Wuhan. Subsequently late January 2020 came and I was wondering how life would be...
Using Pycom Technology for University Summer course in applied IoT
Students are the future of Tech According to a study by EDC, as of 2018, there were 23 million software developers worldwide and this is expected to grow to 27.7 million by 2023. And yet, in 2020, “an estimated 1 million computer programming-related jobs in the US are...
Smart Cities Networks with Satellite up-link
The integration of technology throughout the infrastructure of a city is steadily becoming the norm. Smart cities deploy and use IoT sensors, actuators and technology across the entire city, from beneath the city to rooftop air pollution monitors. Underpinning these...
PyonAir Pollution Monitor for Smart Cities using LoRa
According to the World Health Organisation, poor outdoor air quality caused an estimated 4.2 million premature deaths in 2016. The solution is a multi-pronged approach, where the first steps are understanding the peaks and troughs of air pollution, as well as...
Solar soil moisture and temperature sensing for smart crops
Agriculture has to quickly adapt to the needs and demands of an ever-growing population, in order to maximise efficiency and land use. Farmers also need to be smart about creating solutions that can live in the fields for some extended periods without having to change...
Teaching Students in Developing Countries how to use MicroPython, embedded technology and LPWAN
In areas where access to technology is restricted it is not illogical that there would be less developers. That’s not to say we shouldn’t look to encourage developing economies to focus on prosperity that comes from being able to service the world’s need for good...
Urban Heat Islands Monitoring helps cities learn and adapt
When a city gets much warmer than surrounding rural areas an urban heat island occurs. This difference in temperature between urban and less populated rural areas has to do with how well the surfaces in each environment absorbs and hold heat. Heat islands happen due...
IoT in Utilities
With a growing population, it comes as no surprise that we’re consuming more and more energy every year. The International Energy Agency expects global energy demand to increase by 37% by 2040, which would put incredible strain on energy supplies. Springing from this...