New Release of NORS is out!

I have an upcoming seminar at Essex University next week, talking about NORS with the attempt to get the students excited enough to develop own solutions.

That particular seminar kicked me enough to release the new version of NORS that I have been working on during the past few months. Major changes are

• only one package now, although still with two different license models for the middleware and server! But the single package makes the installation easier.
• removed the N12 support, i.e., only MIDP devices (phones usually) are supported.
• removed some Nokia proprietary sensor handlers. They did not work outside Nokia anyways. If you still want them, re-integrate them from V1.1.
• added some new handlers, one specifically for the AliveTec heart monitor (allowing for continuous ECG measurements!).
• improved on existing handlers, such as location handler (now running via JSR) and audio handler (stability)
• and some other changes (please see releasenotes.txt in the package for more info)

What will come soon (in V1.3 then) is changing the server completely towards mySQL, i.e., measurements and discovery data will be placed in mySQL tables. And acquisitions will be retrieved from mySQL tables. With that, the application development is envisioned to move mainly towards PHP-type scripting over mySQL data. With that, GoogleEarth type application can easily be written without any changes to the NORS middleware nor server! Watch this space…