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Market analysis - 49
THE EVENTS LINKER
Event linkers are a type of software which
facilitate the programming of simple event
based behaviors:
Events can be triggered by sensors (e.g.
The temperature dropped) or by digital
events (e.g. Receive an email, like on
Facebook etc.). The triggered actions can
be either digital (e.g. Send an email) or
physical (e.g. Turn on the light).
Some linking software allow the linking
of discrete values (e.g. Adjust the level of
the light according to the loudness of the
room).
Most of the time the mapping of a trigger
to an action doesn’t allow for complex
condition (If this and that…)
THE SDK
A software development kit (SDK or
“devkit”) is typically a set of software
development tools that allows for the
creation of applications for a certain
software package, software framework,
hardware platform, computer system, video
game console, operating system, or similar
development platform.
It may be something as simple as the
implementation of one or multiple
application programming interfaces (API)
in the form of some libraries to interface
to a particular programming language
or include sophisticated hardware to
communicate with a certain embedded
system.
An example of a SDK is Temboo 37 : a set
of API that allows you to interface your
hardware platform with more than 100
different third party web services. Through
its web interface Temboo goes beyond
providing just a software library, it is also
able to generate pieces of code ready to be
copy-pasted.