When Samsung first got interested in the smart home, and IoT more generally, it approached the endeavor from the usual consumer electronics direction—create a closed ecosystem it could control and monetize… Read more »
It seems that everyone from home security leader ADT to the broadband and cable providers like Time Warner want a piece of the smart home. The logic goes that these companies… Read more »
Over the past couple weeks I’ve been looking at the importance of standards to industrial IoT as well as examining the complexity of implementing IoT in industrial settings. Last week I discussed IoT… Read more »
Last week I wrote about the challenges in industrial IoT in terms of dealing with many different connectivity points from different hardware manufacturers, the need for standards, and the reality of… Read more »
The common wisdom is that consumer IoT will and is rolling out more quickly than industrial IoT because consumer products have quicker product cycles than industrial applications do. Put another way,… Read more »
If having a third party app track your location via your smart phone 24 hours a day creates an instantaneous creepy factor reaction, consider that location sharing app Life360 is nearing 50… Read more »
When thinking about the next hot sector ripe for innovation, we might think of the efforts in the share economy or even next generation technologies like 3D printing or robotics that… Read more »
The Internet of Things brings with it a massive amount of data as device proliferation extends far beyond our smartphones to our homes, cars and entire cities. For now, the use… Read more »
I moderated a panel on startups at data center and interconnect provider Telx’s recent conference. The panel included some career entrepreneurs, some of whom were on their fourth or fifth startup—not… Read more »
After the success of connected thermostats in the home, many are wondering what the next major point application success could be. I’ve looked at everything from connected water heaters to connected… Read more »