Peter Waher is the cofounder of Clayster, a company with its origin in Scandinavia but now operates in four continents. Clayster is dedicated to the development of Internet of Things applications and provides an IoT platform for rapid application development. Currently, Peter lives and works in Chile where he is the CEO of Clayster Laboratorios Chile S.A., a subsidiary of Clayster that provides development expertise to partner companies and promotes the Internet of Things technology to research institutions. Originally a mathematician, commercial pilot, and computer games developer, he has worked for 20 years with computers and device communication, including low-level development in assembler for resource-constrained devices to high-level system design and architecture. He's currently participating in various standardization efforts within IEEE, UPnP, and XSF, working on designing standards for Internet of Things. His work on smart applications for Internet of Things and the development of the IP-TV application ""Energy Saving through Smart Applications"" won the Urban Living Labs global showcase award in the Cultural and Societal Participation and Collaboration Tools category. Peter Waher can be found on LinkedIn at http://linkedin.com/in/peterwaher/.
I'd like to thank the founder of Clayster, Rikard Strid, and Packt Publishing for the opportunity to write this book; Joachim Lindborg for the many ideas and discussions related to Internet of Things; Fernando Cruz and Freddy Jimenez for their invaluable help with many practical details; my eldest daughter, Maria-Lorena, for accepting to stand model and offer to break into my office at night; and finally my wife and children for tolerating the many late hours it took to write this book.
