exchanging data The Internet Of Sound - Chirp

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Chirp is the magical new way to share your stuff - using sound!

Chirp 'sings' information from one phone to another.

Share photos, links, notes and more: all from your built-in speaker!

Anyone in listening range can then hear the chirp sound and receive your picture!

• Share photos with groups of friends
• One button-simple - just chirp it!
• Share any link you like

Chirp works on all Android 1 Ghz dual-core phones.

 

The Internet Of Sound

 

Send data with sound.

Chirp uses sound to transfer information. Any device with a speaker or microphone can now send and receive data.

And, for small pieces of data, no network connection is required.
Application areas include one-to-many sharing, location-based offers, retail POS and Two-Factor Authentication (2FA).

 

EVERYTHING IS SOUND

Chirp lets you create sonic links of any kind. Anything you can think of is chirpable. How about media, like pictures, MP3s, text messages, or web pages? Or business objects like payment IDs, tickets, coupons, vouchers or redeemable tokens? Digital receipts? Business cards? Video clips? In-app commands? Chirp technology is in use in over 100 countries worldwide, making sharing as easy as one-button done.

 

CONNECT USERS, DEVICES, PLACES
People love to share

Mobile users expect to be able to share & interact between their devices. If your app doesn't let them send or receive now it can mean: lower uptake of your service, higher churn, lower sales, lower referral rates and poor retention.

Chirp lets you take advantage of real-world, person-to-person sharing, and it only takes a second for your users to share anything from passwords to pictures… and more.

 

TRULY CROSS PLATFORM
From old radios to the latest mobile devices.

Chirp’s award-winning, battle-tested technology can connect everything from mobile devices to POS systems, ATMs and toys. Even TV, web pages and radio broadcasts can send data to phones using Chirp technology.

 

PLUG & PLAY
Get chirping in 5 minutes

It’s a snap to drop Chirp into your app. You can be up and running in two minutes - or less. We aim to provide you the best possible developer experience with our latest SDK tools, easy integration and first-class technical support.

 

Works without a network

In some use cases, data can even be transmitted even in airplane mode, completely offline.

 

Lightweight

Easy to integrate, efficient to run. Our technology won't burden your engineers or their hardware.

 

Superb support

From product strategy, to code-level technical support - we are here to help.

 

Rock-solid API

Commercial-grade REST API allows you to quickly & easily create large-scale campaigns and perform batch operations.

 

Portable.

No Chirp SDK for your platform? Get in touch to see how we can help you get Chirping whatever technology you are building on.

 

Scalable, Tested Technology

Having already worked with leading global businesses, our systems are ready for even the largest userbases and strictest performance criteria.

 

Minimal hardware requirements

Anything with a loudspeaker or microphone can chirp.

 

Secure

Use our secure networking infrastructure out of the box, or use your own for total control.

 

Proactive people

We go above & beyond to help our fantastic partners and clients succeed.

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Forget IoT, The Internet Of Sound Has Arrived

 

 

The era of the Internet of Sound has arrived and soon sound could be used to transfer data. Sound has the potential to paint a new picture and connecting the world in a different and better way.

 

ttention audiophiles! We are about to experience the Internet of Sound. We all encounter myriad sounds each day, but none of us has ever imagined them as a possible network. However, the technology has a tendency to work upon the unimaginable and bring out the wonders. This time, the wonder is what is being called ‘The Internet Of Sound’ or the ‘speakernet’.

 

Sound has been for long the most neglected network despite the fact that sound can reach places where other networks cannot. Therefore, sound can reframe the picture that we see today, it can be a valuable part of our networks besides the existing ones. Moreover, the functioning of machines like ATMs, TVs, toys, radios, tablets, mobiles etc. which exist already can be repurposed if they carry sound, so they can be a part of a network. Thus, Internet Of Sound can be foreseen as a progressive approach to connect the world in a better way.

 

As a part of the Internet Of Sound, Chirp, a mobile application and a London-based startup, has released its Chirp.io SDK. Chirp is a platform for exchanging data using sounds. The working is simple. Provide the app a link or a piece of text or an image or anything else and it will “chirp” a sound that can be decoded by anyone else using the app,  pointing to the data on chirp’s server. However, with the release of SDK, chirp is no longer limited to iOS and Android phones, rather it is now available for the Arduino and Spark Core. All you need to share chirps is an Arduino Uno and an earphone. Besides, it comes with a simplified web API which is designed for the limited resources on embedded devices.

 

 

 

 

 

Interestingly, the company has opened a crowdfunding round on Crowdcube, which unlike Kickstarter, is an equity platform based in the United Kingdom, where one gets backer rewards and backs a specific project. Noticeably, here, the person pledges in return for equity (or share) of the company. It is noteworthy that Chirp is raising 400,000 Euros in return for 16.7% of the company. It doesn’t require the backer to have a net worth greater than a million dollars to become an accredited investor which opens doors to a much wider range of people.

 

The Chirp platform is momentous in the realisation of the Internet of Things dream because it effectively meets the requirement of an uniform protocol for all the things which are about to be connected. Until now, there are no unified standards to fulfill this because of the great diversity of devices that make up the Internet of Things. Not every device can have enough processing powers or even memory to run a TCP stack, hence, it’s not going to run internet. However, the Internet of Sound can make the Internet of Things possible in reality.

 

However, the data transfer over audio is going to be slow and there are possibilities that the signal is rich in data but hideous in sound or otherwise the signal may be irritating and unreliable at the same instant of time.Moreover, the process can be insecure  by design. But, the hope remains as novel and initiative ideas are being worked upon by the researchers to get the problems solved and make the Internet of Sound a better thought. New hardware can escalate the process- the ever cheaper and devoted DSP (Digital Signal Processing) chips in mobiles and other connected devices can optimise the reach and efficiency of Internet of Things products.

 

Therefore, the world is soon going to attain the potential to re-engineer sounds, music and audio for the sake of data sharing. Thus, where there is sound, there is data.

 

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