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DeviceHub.net released a remote reading solution for Smart Meters and is now about to take the whole business industry by storm. This platform is bound to offer a multitude of benefits to businesses and it comes as the solution for fast and reliable install.

This platform offers see real-time usage for individual or group meters.  It can also manage consumers and generate invoices.

The clients that will most benefit from the solution are energy suppliers, facility management businesses or constructors and system integrators.

"We always searched for way to make complicated simple. This solution assures fast adoption of smart meters" said Ionut Cotoi, CEO DeviceHub.net.

2017 is the year when Romania starts installing at large scale, smart meters that help them replace manual work done by thousands of people. Also, the government is imposing monthly meter checking which would involve a huge cost for energy companies; according to a legislative initiative which modifies and updates the energy and natural gas law. (no 123/2012).

DeviceHub.net is on a mission to change the world of computing, the way people are thinking about the internet of things today and improve the way internet of things applications are built in the future. They are not talking about the incremental change, but about a revolution wave in computing on a large, global scale, at 10-fold increase in speed and ease of deployment and a 10-fold decrease in cost.

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When we learned about the Kitchen Budapest hackathon for home automation we just knew  we have to attend. The promise of open source hardware, young innovators and good programming skills is what convinced us and we gladly accepted the invitation. The topic of the hackathon “Home, smart home” was a perfect match for us, so we provided contestants with the DeviceHub.net Internet of Things platform for rapid prototyping, as well as assisted them during the whole quest.

The first hackathon took place in Budapest in the Kitchen Budapest revenue, where we benefited from their amazing electronics workplace in order to create cases for prototypes during the event.

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Hackathon'15 at KiBu

Jó hír! Már el is készült a Kitchen Budapest 24 órás hackathonjának moodvideója!Ezzel a klassz videóval Ti is bepillantást nyerhettek abba, hogy milyen volt az az izgalmas 24 óra, amikor csodálatos ötletek és ezek megvalósulásaiként különböző prototípusok születtek Smart Home témában.Köszönjük a videót a BEET csapatának!Jó szórakozást! :)Great news! The video is ready of the 24-hour-long hackathon at KiBu!Watch this video and you can have an insight of the best moments of this inspiring 24 hours, in which great ideas have been developed and new prototypes were born in the topic of Smart Home.Thanks for the video to the team of BEET!Enjoy! :)

Posted by Kitchen Budapest on Wednesday, October 14, 2015

The event as such debuted with some interesting presentations from Telekom and Fablab Budapest representatives aimed to establish the context and the vision of the hackathon. Afterwards, we got together with all the attending teams to the technical part: the very innovative software framework that Peter Varo did for the contestants that makes working with the Raspberry Pi a breeze and the DeviceHub.net platform intro addressing the key concepts and APIs. It was after the introductory part that we really moved to action. Firstly, the teams did a brainstorming session to see what ideas they got and what they could do in the 24h available. Some wild ideas appeared pretty quick, which we helped refine through the night and they excitedly started working on both hardware and software.

Towards the morning the real hackathon challenges kicked in: sleep deprivation and pesky bugs, but we gained some much needed strength with a healthy breakfast and the teams were ready for the last push before the presentations.

The highly awaited moment arrived and each team presented their project. “I was impressed by their dedication to make it look and feel like an Apple keynote. All the exhaustion seemed to disappear and we felt like the prototypes have been in work for a few weeks before showing them in front of us. Of course, sadly, somebody had to win, but in our eyes each team did an amazing effort and project.”, said Constantin Craciun, CTO & Co-Founder DeviceHub.net who represented our team at the KIBU hackathon.

The winner team of the Budapest hackathon was the team that created an elegant device which showed the relative location of your loved ones combining a nice UI and a non-intrusive approach to solve such a sensitive issue.

After a week, a second event of this kind took place in Szeged. The teams were once again amazing and the winner was a simple approach of home gateway that could be used to assure both security and increased comfort of the home owner.

“All in all, it was a cool experience. We learned a lot from the teams and we really hope that the teams went home confident that they are capable of building interesting prototypes that could one day become businesses. We did our best to make them feel so”, concluded Constantin Craciun, CTO & Co-Founder DeviceHub.net.

The concept of Internet of Things emphasises the fact that any electronic device can be connected to the Internet in order to gather, generate or exchange data, thus proving an extended applicability.

It is the case for many industries that energy frequently represents the second largest operational cost. But energy is hard to monitor and energy fluctuations can have a negative impact on the production line as such. However, most companies lack cost effective measurement systems and modelling tools and/or performance and management tools to optimise energy use in individual production operations, much less in real-time across multiple operations, facilities, or an entire supply chain. It is a fact that each machine comes with a “personalised” software, but more often than not this does not allow a compact view of the data gathered from the production line as a whole. Thus, although data is available, it is hard to understand or visualise, lacking predictive validity in the case of incidents.

As such, the Internet of Things is not just about the “things”, but moreover about connecting people to the right data, automating processes for cost reduction and enabling inter-dependencies between the operational level and the business level of the organisation. Specifically, IoT becomes a tool for predictive maintenance or an intelligence assurance policy aimed at improving products and services quality through optimising processes.

The IoT movement transcends nowadays the limits of M2M communication, enabling even devices that do not include the respective electronics to connect to the Internet by using an intermediary non-intrusive device. According to Cisco, this technology is poised to generate $4.6 trillion in Value at Stake by 2024, through the efficient management of resources, improving employees’ productivity, new business models and increasing the benefits for end users.

In this context, DeviceHub.net will conduct on November 6th 2015, between 11:30 am and 1:30 pm (GMT+2), at TechHub Bucharest, the workshop Industry 4.0: Real Case Studies and Applicability. Within the event there will be presented concrete IoT solutions and applications from various industries, such as: manufacturing, telecom, agriculture, transportation, renewable energy etc., aimed to answer the above mentioned problems.

Similarly, tailored use cases will be further discussed based on the main areas of expertise of the participants, in order to enable them to update their business model according to the new opportunities made available by the Internet of Things, such as interconnecting machines, providers, maintenance partners or supply chains.  

Thus, industry nowadays can benefit from an unprecedented level of visibility not only into line efficiency, but also into all factory operations, through data gathering using a unique interface and instantly generated smart reports at factory level. Plant managers can now have access to such data as equipment efficiency, line efficiency, data visualisation tools and alerts from any location.

The attendance is free of charge and the workshop addresses all the manufacturers and stakeholders from the electrical equipment and automation industry or related fields, system integrators, public institutions, as well as developers interested to benefit from the advantages provided by adopting IoT solutions for business or own use.

To register for the workshop please fill in the online form available here.

Brace yourselves! How to Web is coming and it’s going to be… LEGENDARY! Meet some of the best & brightest minds in the CEE & beyond, listen to hands-on talks & practical case studies, get to feel the vibe of the CEE startup ecosystem! All these & more on November 26 & 27 at the 6th edition of How to Web, the most important conference on tech innovation & entrepreneurship in South Eastern Europe. Are you the founder of an early-stage tech startup with disruptive potential at global scale? Then apply now for Startup Spotlight, competition & mentoring program with total cash prizes of USD 20.000!

Why attend? How to Web Conference 2015 brings you at the same table with 1000+ startup founders, product managers, developers, online marketers & community leaders from all around the CEE. Beyond high-quality content, including case studies and hands-on talks on different topics, you have great networking opportunities by connecting with the who’s who in the regional tech industry. Learn best practices from remarkable entrepreneurs & top-notch professionals Successful entrepreneurs and experienced professionals from all around the world will take the main stage of How to Web Conference to share best practices & practical case studies, and deliver insightful talks on product launches, product metrics, product marketing, content marketing, conversion rate optimisation through growth hacking, or team building and management, among many others.

Among the speakers that you’ll get to meet and learn from this year, there are:

Jan Reichelt, Co-Founder and President, Mendeley, a company that disrupted information sharing in scientific research, grew to 50 employees and a few million users, and was acquired by Reed Elsevier in April 2013;

Larry Gadea, Founder & CEO, Envoy, startup that allows businesses to check-in people and keep track of their visitors and that recently raised a USD 15 million series A round led by Andreessen Horowitz;

Martin Eriksson, Co-Founder, Mind the Product and Product Tank, entrepreneurial, driven and innovative product management professional with 18+ years experience in building leading online products;

Kalman Kemenczy, Director of Product, Prezi.com, a cloud-based (SaaS) presentation software and storytelling tool for presenting and sharing ideas on a virtual canvas;

Edial Dekker, Co-Founder, Gidsy & Hack de Overheid and ex-Senior Product Manager, Eventbrite;

Bram Kanstein, Founder, Startup Stash, a curated directory of 400 resources and tools for startups, that went viral and got 230.000 pageviews in 48 hours, and ex-European Community Manager, Product Hunt;

Sujan Patel, Renowned growth hacker, marketer, and serial entrepreneur, Co-Founder of ContentMarketer.io and author of  ”100 Days of Growth”, ebook sold in over 10,000 copies.

DeviceHub.net  joins Deutsche Telekom and hub:raum in supporting the new hackathon series of Kitchen Budapest, an internationally recognised innovation lab. This year’s hackathons to be held between October 2nd and 3rd 2015 in Budapest, respectively October 10th and 11th 2015 in Szeged address young creative developers, artists, designers and people with business curiosity and invites them to team up and craft crazy hacks that one can smarten up the home with, make it safer, sweeter, more comfortable or just a better place to live in.

Since the topic is “Home, smart home”, DeviceHub.net will provide the participants with its IoT platform to come up with simple and practical solutions using the latest technologies. Even more, during both of the events, Constantin Craciun, CTO & Co-Founder DeviceHub.net  will attend in order to advice the participants and guide them while using the platform in their developing endeavours.

“For us, giving back to the community is a priority. We started as a makerspace in Bucharest, Romania and using open source hardware and software built new things, so we understand the needs and mentality of makers and innovators and that’s why we love them. We want to continue the tradition and offer what we’ve built with our platform to Internet of Things developers to enable them to build tomorrow. And what better way to do this than in a hackathon. It contains the right amount of challenging ideas, fun and hard work to make awesome stuff that might lead to the next Big thing!”, said Constantin Craciun about the decision to support KIBU hackathon 2015.

At the end of the hackathon, the winning teams will be awarded by DeviceHub.net with premium accounts, which grant them access to extra features on the platform for their future IoT projects. Other prizes are: Raspberry Pi 2 Model B, Kibu mentorship and financial support and a laser tag adventure for every member of the teams.

The event’s capacity is 35 people maximum (approximately 6 teams) and the participation is free, based on registration. More details regarding the event can be find on the official website.

Internet & Mobile World 2015, the most extensive expo-conference for digital, mobile and software solutions brings tech savvys and professionals in touch not only with the latest ideas and technologies, but also with the architects of the digital future. The event to be held between October 7th and 8th 2015, is designed as a platform where people can share opinions, find new business partnerships and collaborate for the benefit of their companies.

Within this year’s edition, a special attention is being paid to identifying the key ingredients in order to develop a stronger tech ecosystem at national level. That is why, on October the 7th 2015, starting with 5 pm (GMT+2) on the Main Stage key players from the Romanian tech ecosystem will take part in the panel “Transforming Romania into a Regional Tech Hub”.The panel addresses to 250 General Managers, IT Managers and Project Managers, Marketing and Brand Managers.  

DeviceHub.net, one of the most promising Romanian start-ups in the field of Internet of Things will be represented in this panel by Cristiana Bogateanu, CMO & Co-Founder of the company,  an experienced Project Manager, with an entrepreneurial mindset. Having studies in Marketing and Management, Managerial Communication and Human Resources and Project & Process Management (Professional MBA at WU – Vienna University of Economics and Business), Cristiana always emphasised the importance of internal and external marketing for any organisation. The current entrepreneurial endeavours allowed her to explore even more the power of good marketing and PR in a dynamic market shaped by emerging technological trends.

Internet & Mobile World 2015 will gather 7300 visitors from the business sector and over 130 both local and regional exhibiting companies which will present the most recent business solutions for the digital future: Business Software & Infrastructure, Online Marketing & E-commerce, International Institutions and Start-ups. Similarly, 120 local and international speakers will share their experience in the field on four content stages: Main Stage, Business Software Stage, Digital & E-commerce Stage and Developers Stage.

The complete agenda of the event can be accessed here.

Researchers’ Night, an annual event held in over 300 European cities as a gathering place for the general public and specialists from such fields as science, technology and innovation will take place on September 25th 2015 in 15 cities from Romania, as well.

This year’s edition advances two complementary approaches, Researchers for Humanity and do you speak science, both consisting in a wide range of fun, hands-on and interactive activities as well informal discussions on topical issues aimed to increase awareness of research and innovation among the public at large.

DeviceHub.net, one of the most promising Romanian startups in the field of Internet and Technology will be present at the event in Bucharest, bringing the Internet of Things and its applications closer to people’s daily life.

So, if you’ve heard about the Internet of Things but you don’t quite know how it can be of help to you, be it personally or professionally, or you are already working at a project involving IoT and you are stuck or want to further validate your idea simply drop by our stand and let’s see what we can do about that.

Starting with 5 pm (GMT+2), you can find us in the University Square, at the stands of the Romanian Initiative for Science and Education (RISE) - an assembly of projects and organisations which share the same passion for science, education, smart devices or open source. Some of our fellow exhibitors are: PRISPA, Rogentos, Ceata, ROSEdu, Robofun, EFdeN sau  Symme3D.

The full agenda of the activities within the Researchers for Humanity topic is available here.

See you there!

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