Remember those days of summer camp? When you were able to play on a team, and have fun? Remember how much closer that made you feel to the other camp members? Well, it may surprise you to learn that the same can easily be said about work; by having your business employees participate in team building activities, you can successfully, and with out much effort at all, get your employees working more as one single, solitary unit, and increase work productivity.
Team building activities have been shown to be just as effective whether they are done indoors out outside in the open. They key is that the activities be done as a group. You see, the location is not important so much as the team building aspect is. You can have all of your team building activities done indoors and strengthen your team just as much as if you took your employees one a rafting adventure.
So how does team building actually make your team stronger? The way that it works is actually rather simple; your employees learn to trust each other by learning not only to depend on one another, but to work together more efficiently to get a result. Working together is the key part of team building. The more your employees have to depend on one another to accomplish their goals, the better equipped they will be.
Team building does not stop after the activity is over and done with. In fact, you will find that the activity’s energies and excitement carry over in to the work place. Having fun together is just one more way that team building activities succeed in making closer working relationships. The closer your team is, the better they will be able to work together once it comes down to sit back behind their desks and get to working once more. Your employees will learn many new things. Because of the structure of good team building activities, one of the most important things your employees will learn will be different ways to approach problems. And new solutions to problem solving is always a great thing!
If you are worried about your team building activity falling through and having a poor outcome, then you it may benefit you to contact a team building activity organizer. These team building professionals can help you to set up a course of activities that will be just as much fun as they are educational. They will also be able to provide you with far more team building information and tips for great team building skills than you would otherwise be able to find yourself without spending countless hours laboring away and searching.
How Team Building Motivates Employees is through fun engaging activities and programs where all participants can interact with everyone.
No sooner did I finish the blog on my new GroveStreams Node than I was faced with the question “how do I use GroveStreams?”
Well, that’s generally up to you – but I will start you off on how I use GroveStreams – and the ridiculously simple setup (once you know how).
So what I will describe here takes you from never having heard of GroveStreams to sending information to your own stream. This should take no more than minutes if you already have managed to get my NODE set up on your Node-Red installation as per my previous blog. If you are NOT using Node-Red, then read this anyway as the API call is trivial and you could organise this from just about any package.
First things first – head off to GroveStreams and get a new account. That is, register, receive a confirmation email, click the link and receive a welcome email. You are done.
You will be asked to create an organisation. This confused the hell out of me until I realised they don’t necessarily mean a business organisation. For the purpose of demonstration I created one called “Garage”.
So now you have that. There are many ways to use GroveStreams, for me I wanted a simple means of looking at graphical logs of simple devices over time.. so for example my temperature sensor. GroveStreams does SO much more than simply log data, you can average over time, zoom into areas, you can even use graphical instruments for real-time monitoring – but let’s keep it simple for now.
In my case having created “Garage” – click on it in your browser window. You are now in the “Observation studio”. You will see “components” on your left. Don’t do anything with it…
Top right is ADMIN in the menu – go there and go to API keys. Click on the one marked “Feed Put API Key (with auto-registration rights) – make sure you’ve picked the right one. Select “View Secret Key” above that and you will get your API key. Copy to the clipboard.
Now dump the API key in my NODE along with a sensible name, a component name (in my case for fun “GarageRoof” don’t use spaces.. and a stream called “temperature” – again – an arbitrary name in this case.
If you are NOT using Node-Red then you are looking at a PUT – this should give you a clue as to the format.
Now, what you DO with that is another matter. In my case right clicking GarageRoof opens a dialog and you can then select temperature, tell it what kind of data you are looking at, what averaging period if any you want to use etc. If you have several test values and want to see a quick average, in the image above, right window you will see below the tab “none” – you can drop that down and instantly see some averaging options – there is just SO much to this but my plan here was merely to get you started. I originally set up GroveStreams to take in data from an Arduino (with Ethernet card) and it did that a treat too – still today logs the temperature in my place in Spain every 15 mins and it’s been doing that for over a year – you can zoom in, overlay one reading over another etc.… time to go look at the documentation – have fun.
One of the more obvious things to do with a home control system is to capture information like temperature and humidity – and to graph it. For example I spent part of my time in the UK and part of it in Spain. When I’m not in Spain it is usually raining in the Northeast of England and so I take great delight in checking the weather back at base in Galera in Andalucía.
There are of course many online systems for logging your data and I have demonstrated elsewhere in this blog doing the job locally on a Raspberry Pi. One of my favourite online services is GroveStreams. They have both paid and free offerings and I have chosen the latter as I’m only logging the information out of interest.
I am using a setup in Spain which is about to be replaced… a series of Arduino type modules with either DS128b20 chips or the combined temperature/humidity devices, the DHT22. These talk by short range radio to a large Arduino (1284-based) which is connected to the Internet. These will soon be replaced by ESP8266 devices connected directly to WIFI and using MQTT as the protocol.
There are a number of ways of sending information to GroveStreams via their API – and as far as Node-Red is concerned there is an http response node – you could tie that to a function block but I thought it would be nice to have a dedicated GroveStreams node – and so here it is.
What you see above is an MQTT listener awaiting a regularly-sent value from a module – and firing it off to GroveStreams. What I like about their service is simplicity. I can tell it the name of a stream and if it does not exist, it will be created automatically.
I made a nice simple dialog box. You can get an API key from your GroveStreams control panel and this is an example (a dummy example). As you can see I’ve given the node a meaningful name, the API key, the name of a “component” and the name of a “stream” under that component – a lot simpler than it looks. All the node needs is an incoming value and that’s it.
In the example below, neither RaspberryPi nor temperature existed initially – I put these in the dialog box, ran Node-Red and magically they appeared in the web interface for GroveStreams. The API key is what you call a “Feed put API key with auto registration rights”. I won’t go into GroveStreams setup or we’ll be here all night.
I hope this helps, if you do manage to get this working on any particular system do let us know what steps you took. Might save someone else some work.
Here’s that temperature graph from the sensor in Spain. GroveStreams does an excellent job of overlaying internal and external temperatures with humidity.
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