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Electric Imp
Electric Imp is a Los Altos, California and Cambridge, England based technology company that provides connectivity for the Internet of Things through a cloud service and embedded hardware and software platform, enabling devices to be connected to the Internet. Electric Imp's connectivity solution allows manufacturers and developers to manage and scale their connected products and services to millions of users.
Electric Imp's name is an homage to the Interface Message Processor, a computer that in the early days of the Internet performed a similar role but for general computers rather than consumer electronics. The name is also derived from Discworld, Terry Pratchett's fantasy world, where imps are small creatures that power many devices.
== Inspiration ==
In early 2011, Hugo Fiennes, CEO and co-founder of Electric Imp, was remodeling a bathroom in his home and wanted to add a strip of RGB lights under a cabinet to light the floor. His plan was to connect them to Wi-Fi so they could display all sorts of ambient information - the hourly weather forecast, daily calendar, stock prices - all indicated with color changes along the strip that could be seen at a glance.
The project turned out to be more complicated than initially envisioned and after much frustration with the available tools Fiennes determined that there should be a better, simpler way to integrate connectivity. What was needed, he concluded, was to take the best implementations of hardware, firmware and cloud service, consolidate them into a powerful Internet of Things-inspired platform, and let them be applied to any device in the world.
抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』
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