Re:Ask HN: Share your side project and your motivation
by jviotti on Sunday July 24, 2022 @04:25PM
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I'm building https://www.jsonbinpack.org, a novel schema-driven and schema-less binary serialization format with a strong focus on space-efficiency.
JSON BinPack comes from my research at University of Oxford trying to solve the problem of expensive cellular network data transfer in the context of the Internet of Things. The results are pretty good based on the benchmark research I published: https://benchmark.sourcemeta.com.
The idea is that if you build an IoT product that is deployed to remote locations (the middle of the sea, a remote farm, etc) and sends data back to central servers over cellular networks, then JSON BinPack would allow you to potentially save a lot of money.
I published a JS-based proof-of-concept and I'm now working on a production-ready C++ implementation.
JSON BinPack comes from my research at University of Oxford trying to solve the problem of expensive cellular network data transfer in the context of the Internet of Things. The results are pretty good based on the benchmark research I published: https://benchmark.sourcemeta.com.
The idea is that if you build an IoT product that is deployed to remote locations (the middle of the sea, a remote farm, etc) and sends data back to central servers over cellular networks, then JSON BinPack would allow you to potentially save a lot of money.
I published a JS-based proof-of-concept and I'm now working on a production-ready C++ implementation.
Dissertation link: https://www.jviotti.com/assets/dissertation.pdf