

Today, atย Maker Faire Ottawa, a local startup called Beagle Sense announced their Young Innovator’s program offering free Internet of Things sensors to schools.
Beagle Sense has producedย a range of ย modular wireless sensors that capture environmental data about your home. There are seven different sensors available โย air quality, temperature, pressure, humidity, light, and bothย indoor and outdoor noise sensors โ which connect back using Bluetooth LE to a wireless base station connected to your home network.

Beagle Sense’s Young Innovator’s program will offer free sensors to around 150 thousand schools across Canada and the United States as part of theย beta program for their sensors, and starting today they are inviting bothย teachers and parents to vote for their school to be a part of this initiative.
Schools will get an early access version of the sensors at the same time as other beta users and will receive a kit consisting of aย WiFi base station and all sevenย different sensors. They will also be able to buy additional sensors at an educational discount โ including new sensor types, such as pollen and smoke sensors,ย when they become available.
While Beagle Sense hasn’t yet released their initial developer API , the company says that it is their intention to provide students access to the data generated by each of the sensors attached to their user account, along with the ability to modify the data sampling rate of the sensors. The beagles will also be integrated into IFTTT allowing both students and developers to build applications using their beagle sensors.
The Beagle sensors areย crowdfunding on Kickstarter, and are currently just under half way to their funding target with anotherย two weeks left to run on the campaign.
Now in its sixth year, and its first as a featured faire, Maker Faire Ottawa is being held in theย Aberdeen Pavilion, Lansdowne Park, Saturday 7th and Sunday 8th of Novemberย โ between 10am and 5pm. Tickets can be bought ahead of timeย and cost $10 for adults, withย discounted tickets for children, students, and seniors. Children under 12 haveย free entry to the event.
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