Access your device hardware with the W3C Generic Sensor API (sponsored by Intel)

Alexis Menard offers an overview of the new W3C Generic Sensor API, which enables you to use hardware sensors in your website or web app. Join in to learn how you can implement it today and catch a glimpse of future plans.

With the increasing adoption of progressive web apps, the web platform is becoming more attractive every day. However, in order to complete the circle and provide all the tools and APIs developers need, we must expose the hardware sensors. Historically, the web platform has lagged in exposing low-level features, due to privacy and security concerns and the complexity of the task. This challenge is finally solved with the W3C Generic Sensor API, which creates a modern, forward-looking base API to expose hardware sensors (e.g., ambient light sensors and motion sensors). Thanks to this API, it’s now easier to create web-based games that leverage sensors or just improve the usability of any website. You can also leverage this API on Node.js- or JavaScript-based environments for targeting the IoT. Alexis Menard offers an overview of the new W3C Generic Sensor API, showing examples of how to use the API and diving into the current status of the spec and the implementation. Join in to learn how you can implement it today and catch a glimpse of future plans. This session is sponsored by Intel.