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Diy IoT is incredibly fun, and the barrier to entry is pretty low. There are wifi connected arduino boards out there to be had for $10–$20. Much of the time these boards will become packed with sensors and able to monitor their surroundings easily. Examples include temperature, humidity, barmoetric pressure, light and motion. <a href="https://www.adafruit.com/category/35" target="_blank">https://www.adafruit.com/category/35</a> Building further sensor gateways and gathering that data from the ‘dunios quickly shoots up the learning curve and gets developers quickly frustrated trying to gather from boards and process the data. Using a couple libraries one can quickly and simply get this data pushed into a personal splunk instance. This is done through a simple web post to the Splunk Http Event Collector or “hec.” From there the sky is the limit.