What can I use Pachube for?

If you are....

• ... a consumer, you might connect up your electrity meter to track it over time, embed usage graphs in your own website, calculate your realtime carbon footprint or use iPhone or gPhone applications to monitor it remotely
• ... a tinkerer, you might connect up basic home-automation devices, so that you can control them, or have them respond to your office or distant family's environment
• ... virtually-inclined, you might have your Second Life environment respond to sensors in the realworld (or vice versa)
• ... an architect, you might use site-specific realtime sensor data to modulate (or generate) a Sketchup model, or use EEML data in conjunction with IFC-compliant models (as can be exported from AutoCad, etc.) to undertake post-occupancy evaluation
• ... a facilities manager, you might connect up specific outputs from your Building Management System, so that specific data items (like current energy consumption or temperature level) can be shared with the public without compromising security
• ... a property developer, you might connect together several buildings to allocate resources or monitor energy consumption and occupancy
• ... a product designer, you might design a set of networked objects, lamps or furniture that react to each other at a distance, even from either sides of the planet
• ... a device designer, you might create a population of mobile gadgets that makes use of ad-hoc and one-to-many sensor connections, or USB dongles that respond to each other at a distance
• ... a maker, you might build blogjects and devices based on Arduino that can connect to each other across the network, or share their realtime sensor data with dozens of others
• ... an interaction designer, you might build environments that respond to climate data from different parts of the world (or, perhaps, other interactive environments)
• ... a graphic designer, you might create dynamic realtime visualisations (using Processing or Flash) of physical sensor data
• ... a web designer, you might build a website that responds in realtime to conditions or interactions in the physical world (for example, by using javascripts to change document elements dynamically in response to sensor data)
• ... a wearables designer, you might produce smart clothing or footwear that connects and interacts across the network and foster communities around people who wear them
• ... a developer, you might webscrape interesting data to add it to the repository or route feeds via other web services to create mashups
• ... a blogger, you might subscribe to RSS or Atom feeds of particular sensor taggings, and get updates when new feeds are added
• ... a games designer, you might create networked or online game that enable players to interact across the planet, or respond to conditions in the physical world
• ... a sociologist, you might monitor communities of geographically-specific sensor data in order to inform the design or participation process
• ... an urban designer, you might track pollution and climate data from a section of the city and embed this data in external websites for public information purposes
• ... a researcher, you might log sensor histories over time, export graphs and compare aggregates of similar sensor types
• ... a fleet or stock owner, you might track, and make public or private, the location and status of individual vehicles, ships, inventory or livestock
• ... a space scientist, you might extract individual data items from a spacecraft (like "interplanetary magnetic field") and make them available for public dissemination

Are you using Pachube for something that we haven't thought of? Please let us know!