Introduction
In my last blog post, Internet of Things, Messaging and MySQL, I
have showed how to start your own Internet of Things with
Particle Photon board. That implementation is great, but requires
constant internet (wi-fi) access as the Particle Photon board
does not have any local storage. If you do not have a reliable
network access (i.e. in some remote places) or need something
really small to store your data you can now use Intel Edison. I’ve even install MySQL on
Edison, which makes it the smallest (in size) MySQL server in the
world! Other options include:
- Raspberry Pi (my colleague Roel installed …