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Date Published
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Tobias Goebel
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1070
Language
English
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None

Summary

I can help you summarize the text. The author of the article is Tobias Goebel, a Twilio engineer, who collaborated with a colleague on an upcoming live demonstration at a partner conference. The goal was to have audience participation by sending real-time SMS alerts upon certain IoT events, such as detecting increased temperature using a temperature sensor. To achieve this, they used various Twilio services: phone numbers for subscribing to the alert service, programmable SMS for receiving and sending messages, functions for implementing application logic, sync for storing and looking up phone numbers of subscribers, and others. The author used ChatGPT to guide them through the process due to their colleague's focus on firmware aspects. They also used a hair dryer to heat up the device for additional show effect. The article provides step-by-step instructions on how to integrate Twilio services into an IoT prototype project, making it easier for IoT engineers to showcase prototypes and enhance their projects' capabilities.