New Articles:
February 8, 2021
4DML Case Study
Building management has become a necessity for business owners. Where to start and how to do it gets complicated. 4D Monitoring offers a solution ... Read more
Elizabeth Adams
November 13, 2020
Input Controls
Being able to control things directly from a Tiles dashboard has been one of the most requested Initial State user features. You now have the option to add ... Read more
Jamie Bailey
October 12, 2020
How to Build a Plug-In Pi Zero Display and Show Something Useful
I wanted to create a simple, compact display driven by a Raspberry Pi Zero that plugs into a power ... Read more
Jamie Bailey
October 6, 2020
Initial State Read API
Initial State has always had an incredibly easy-to-use API for streaming data into your account. What has been missing is a similar API for reading data out of ... Read more
Jamie Bailey
September 23, 2020
How to Use a Soil Moisture Sensor to Keep Your Plants Alive
Every good plant mom (or dad) knows there are two important things to keep your indoor plants ... Read more
Elizabeth Adams
September 3, 2020
How to Build a Raspberry Pi Refrigerator/Freezer Monitor
This tutorial will tell you exactly how to build a smart freezer thermometer — fully monitored, reliable ... Read more
Rick Kuhlman
August 24, 2020
Logging and Supervising Your Remote Temperature Monitor
What if one of your wireless sensors goes offline without you knowing? That’s where Initial State’s new ... Read more
Rachel-Chloe Gregory
August 6, 2020
How to Monitor Your Boat During the Winter
This is a DIY solution using a Raspberry Pi, some electronics, and Initial State to monitor your boat, so you can have all the data when you are on it ... Read more
Elizabeth Adams
July 13, 2020
How to Build a Crawl Space Humidity Monitor
Nothing wreaks havoc on your crawl space like excess moisture. Learn how to remotely monitor crawl space humidity w/ dashboards & alerts ... Read more
Jamie Bailey
June 18, 2020
Build a Weather Dashboard that sends alerts using a Weather Data API
Being a Tornado Survivor, I use many ways to get weather alerts. I made a weather dashboard that can ... Read more
Jeff Loucks
May 24, 2020
How to Create a Tesla Geofence
This tutorial will show you how to create a Tesla geofence to automatically send a SMS text from your Model 3/S/X when you get close to a location ... Read more
Jamie Bailey
May 12, 2020
ESP32 Temperature Monitor
This article will walk through how to monitor temperature with an ESP32 and DHT22 sensor using Arduino IDE and Initial State ... Read more
Elizabeth Adams
April 15, 2020
Build a Tesla Data Dashboard with the Tesla API
This tutorial will show you how you can connect your Tesla to Initial State for historical data storage and real-time alerts including geofence alerts ... Read more
Jamie Bailey
April 7, 2020
Integration Marketplace
Initial State has launched its newest feature, Integration Marketplace. The codeless data integrations allow users to get data from APIs with just a few clicks ... Read more
Elizabeth Adams
February 26, 2020
OwnBooth - WeWork Phone Booth Occupancy
This project is a prototype IoT occupancy sensor that shows whether phone booths are available for use before trekking across the building ... Read more
Rick Kuhlman
February 7, 2020
Raspberry Pi Data Logger
So you have that Raspberry Pi sitting around and you are wondering what to do with it? With a seemingly infinite number of project ideas and ... Read more
Elizabeth Adams
December 11, 2019
IoT Inspiration: Projects and Examples
The Internet of Things (IoT) has revolutionized the way people view and interact with the world. Not only that, it’s so easy to connect your life to ... Read more
Jeff Loucks
December 5, 2019
Smart Office IoT Projects
Whether you are looking for ways to save energy, implement home automation in the office, or keep track of the environment & people, smart office IoT ... Read more
Elizabeth Adams
November 19, 2019
Students Prototype Design for School Security System Using Raspberry Pi
School safety is on everyone's mind but no more so than students. Battle Ground Academy students ... Read more
Elizabeth Adams
November 8, 2019
What is an IoT Dashboard?
Evaluating an IoT dashboard involves analyzing its many functional aspects including data visualizations, organization, storage, analytics, and security. Read more
Jamie Bailey
October 24, 2019
Productivity Dashboard for Devs
I talk all the time with other developers about productivity in a data-less sort way. “I felt Really productive today!” or maybe “I don’t ... Read more
Zack Koppert
October 22, 2019
Student-Run Businesses are Teaching Kids Real World Lessons
Students are getting the experience I wish I had when I was in high school and middle school. Read more
Elizabeth Adams
October 17, 2019
How to Build a Raspberry Pi Smart Beer Fridge
How do you take a perfectly good beer or wine fridge and make it smart? One way is to have the refrigerator tell you how many bottles are in it and how many ... Read more
Elizabeth Adams
October 8, 2019
How to Build a Raspberry Pi Temperature Monitor
Temperature and humidity are vital data points in today’s industrial world. Monitoring environmental ... Read more
Elizabeth Adams
October 7, 2019
Data Design: Inspiration vs Information
There are so many articles, books, and other resources online that will tell you the hard and fast rules of how to design a great dashboard or data ... Read more
Jeffrey Loucks
October 1, 2019
Why Pie Charts Suck But They Don’t Have To
The universal view of pie charts is that they suck. You throw one of these into your PowerPoint presentation and you better be prepared to be mocked mercilessly. Read more
Elizabeth Adams
September 12, 2019
How to Make a See-Through Transparent Web Dashboard
When I first got my iPhone. I developed a crowd-pleasing party trick to make the screen look ... Read more
Rick Kuhlman
August 15, 2019
A Picture is Worth 1,000 Data Points: Initial State Adds Unsplash Image Backgrounds
You can now add image backgrounds to your Initial State dashboards! ... Read more
Rachel-Chloe Gregory
June 12, 2019
Initial State Releases LabVIEW SDK at NI Week
NI puts on an incredible show every year, and Initial State took advantage of the opportunity to exhibit at NI Week 2019. At the show, we released a LabVIEW ... Read more
Rick Kuhlman
May 14, 2019
4 ways to stream data from Node Red to a dashboard
Node Red is a browser based programming tool that allows you to connect code blocks that accomplish ... Read more
Elizabeth Adams
April 25, 2019
When healthcare doesn’t provide the solution, sometimes you have to build it yourself
This story is not my own, but it was one so compelling I wanted to share it with others. I found Max’s ... Read more
Elizabeth Adams
March 22, 2019
Build an Inexpensive Network of Web-Connected Temperature Sensors using Pi Zeros
Temperature and humidity sensors can be invaluable data collection tools when deployed in your home ... Read more
Jamie Bailey
March 11, 2019
How to Stream (Push) Data to a Real-Time Dashboard API in Python
If you are building projects in Python, there is a good chance you will want to capture some sort ... Read more
Jamie Bailey
February 28, 2019
Tuck Away a Specific Month/Week/Day/Hour View of Your Streamed Data
If you have a set of sensors or an application streaming data over a long period of time, there ... Read more
Jamie Bailey
February 20, 2019
How to Stream Your Google Sheets Data to a Real-Time Dashboard
Spreadsheets excel at (see what I did there) manipulating data in all kinds of crazy ways ... Read more