Presenter: Drew Moseley
Drew is currently part of the Mender.io open source project to deploy OTA software updates to embedded Linux devices. He has worked on embedded projects such as RAID storage controllers, Direct & Network attached storage devices & graphical pagers.

He has spent the last 7 years working in Operating System Professional Services helping customers develop production embedded Linux systems. He has spent his career in embedded software & developer tools & has focused on Embedded Linux & Yocto for about 10 years. He is currently a Technical Solutions Engineer at Northern.Tech (the company behind the OSS project Mender.io), helping customers develop safer, more secure connected devices.

Drew has presented at many conferences, including OSCON, Embedded Linux Conference, Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE), Embedded Systems Conference, All Systems Go, & other technology conferences.

Topic:
In this meetup, we will discuss using the Debian distribution & the BeagleBone hardware platform to implement an IoT application. Specifically, the use of MQTT to implement a weather station application will be demonstrated & the code will be available to all attendees. We will discuss initial prototyping on your desktop Linux installation as well as issues you will need to address when migrating the code to the BeagleBone. Finally, we will touch briefly on the differences between prototype & production environments & detail some of the considerations & choices that will need to be made when moving beyond the prototyping phase.