Overview

This page showcases volunteer-led projects for Connected Devices currently being proposed and worked on by Mozillians. If you have an idea for a project or are currently working on one, make sure to add it to this list.

Current Projects

1. Name: unicorn (UNIfied Communication Over Realtime Networks, aka, connecting connected devices)
   • Description: unicorn is a decentralized, distributed, federated, deployable, secure, real-time, eventually persistent, data-agnostic communications platform that can connect humans and/or machines to each other.
   • Project page: https://github.com/muktakosh/unicorn
   • Primary Contacts: Deb (@Debloper), Kaustav (@KaustavDM)
   • Primary communication channel(s)
     • Discourse: https://muktakosh.org/c/unicorn
     • Telegram: https://telegram.me/mk_unicorn
     • Issues: https://github.com/muktakosh/unicorn/issues
2. Name: Watch My House
   • Description : Notify the user via alert on their phone if there is a noise and send live feed if they want to see what's going on
   • https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/Watch_My_House
   • https://github.com/mariot/watch-my-house
   • Meeting on #watch-my-house and Telegram every Wednesday at 4:30PM UTC/10:00PM IST
   • Primary Contact: Mariot Tsitoara [@mariot_tsitoara], Rufus Chakravarthy Sharma [@RufusCSharma], Sandraghassen S Pillai (Ganesh) [@ganeshssp], Tilak Marupilla [@Tilak1]
3. Name: Estonia Hacks
   • Description : To come
4. Name: Open Hardware Board
   • Description : To come

Previous Projects

1. Name: Connected Farmers
   • Project Page: https://github.com/maktrix/connected_farmers/blob/master/README.md
   • Primary Contacts: @maktrix, @asma_sawpna, @sunnat629, @hossainalikram
   • Primary Communicaiton channels
   • Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/connected.farmers/
   • Telegram Group: https://telegram.me/joinchat/ASb5dAZtnlqBTYEP-Wx5HA
2. Name: RadioQ
   • One Line Description : Making analog radio smarter
   • Link : https://gist.github.com/tripad/dd5c3a441dd056c4b907
   • Primary Contact : Telegram.me/tripad
   • People Needed : Developers who know about audio + fxos
3. Name: Mozilla Indonesia Community Space (Smart Identifier)
   • Project description: smart identifier to be used on Mozilla Indonesia Space (for identification and access + resource management)
   • Project page: https://github.com/deryanEM/Office-Smart-Identification
   • Primary contacts: Deryan (@deryanev), Oji (@ojiii), Rara (@rara79), Shinta Setiawan (@ssetiawan)
   • Primary communication channels: Telegram, regular meetup (online or offline)
   • Human resource needed: people who knows programming language (all) and would like to design the project together in a local hackathon
4. Name: Heart Rate Monitor
   • https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/cd-heart-rate-monitor
   • Primary contact: @srushtika (twitter and telegram) Srushtika (github)
5. Name: Friend of Farmer (FoF)
   • Github Repo : https://github.com/sims143/FoF-
6. Name: Firefox OS Webplatformify (webplat-foxify)
   • Description: Making node.js APIs / npm modules usable under Firefox OS
   • Project info: https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/webplat-foxify
   • Contacts: @slsoftworks (Flaki), @kohlersolutions (Michael Kohler)
   • includes demo usecase & demo Firefox OS apps
   • needed:
     • net API shim needs cleanup, contributions
     • javascript websocket implementation needs cleanup, tests etc.
     • webvr remote demo needs
       • cleanup
       • assets (default assets used are IP of id inc.)
       • fixed position tracking latency on Firefox OS https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1234264 (probably won't be fixed until new sensor daemon lands
7. Name: Lotus - plant watering
   • Github page: http://fxos-hub.github.io/
   • Github source: https://github.com/fxos-hub
   • Proces Model: https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/SLS_CD_Project_Model-FXOS_Hub
8. Name: Connected Gamedev
   • https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/Connected_Gamedev
9. Name: Physical Space Visualizer
   • Description: A device that will instantly communicate with physical objects in a room and gather from them data related to shape, size and location.
   • Github repo http://www.github.com/blossomica/physical-space-visualizer
   • People needed: Hardware/Software Engineering Experts, Network Engineers
   • Primary contact: @blossomica - > Telegram - Rest TBD
10. Name: Connected Blocks
    • Description: Facilitate easy application development and rapid prototyping for connected devices using independent modules that can be combined together to form complex application sets.
    • GitHub: https://github.com/sayak-sarkar/connected-blocks
    • Etherpad: https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/connected-blocks
    • Primary Contact: Sayak [@sayak_sarkar]
    • People Needed: Developers, Application Design experts, Web API experts
11. Name: Discoverability Thingy
    • Description: A set of tools to help the discoverability of nearby devices and services
    • github: https://github.com/soapdog/discoverability-thing
    • contacts: Andre Garzia (@soapdog), Arturo (@thephoenixbird), Luis (@lars21)
12. Name: Verbinding
    • Description: The plan is to create something similar to IFTTT....for the connected devices. What that means is, simple 'if...then....else' conditions to make multiple connected devices communicate with each other. eg. If the temperature in the room in more than 25'C, switch on the AC. In this case, a simple 'if...else' statement will communicate with the thermostat device and the AC to solve a life program.
    • github: https://github.com/priyankanag/verbinding
    • Contacts: Rabimba, Priyanka
13. Name: MayBahaBa (Is there flood?)
    • Project page: https://github.com/bobreyes/maybahaba/
    • Primary Contacts: Bob Reyes (@bobreyes)
    • Primary communication channel(s)
    • Mailing List
    • FB Group
14. Name: HUM (Health utilities and monitoring)
    • Description: An interative and intelligent IOT solution which provides an advance full analytical end to end customized hardware product and web dashboard to check your health and environment status
    • Github page: https://github.com/dvigneshwer/HUM
    • Primary Contacts: Vigneshwer (@dvigneshwer)
    • Communication channel : Telegram (https://telegram.me/joinchat/Aw5bIQbsV_0WImQp44lB-A)
15. Name: BCS - Base Camp Server
    • Description: Next generation management platform to replace the conventional Linux web panels for all-in-one servers which will include a Web-GUI, CLI suite, and API engine.
    • Github page: https://github.com/junland/BCS
    • Primary Contacts: John Unland (@Junland)
    • Communication channel : Telegram (https://telegram.me/joinchat/C44g5DxfbMLoMOKC9c7QDg)
16. Name: Smart House
    • Description: A Rasbperry pi IoT based home automation system that adapts according to human need.
    • Project Page: https://github.com/dimonga/smarthome
    • Primary Contacts: @dimonga email :dipeshcmonga@gmail.com
17. Name: Smart Bulbs: Data transfer using light bulbs
    • Project Page: https://github.com/dimonga/Li-Fi
    • Description: LED bulbs that can be used to transmit data using high speed flickering
    • Primary Contacts: @dimonga email :dipeshcmonga@gmail.com
18. Name: Sharespace HP Bar
    • Project Page: https://github.com/sakura26/sharespace-HP-bar
    • Description: A Health Point bar for share space - just like RPGs. Let everyone knows the health state, and we can take action (like donate) to make it more sustainable.
    • Primary Contacts: email :ethen@anotherdream.tw