How important is the industrial internet to the world’s economy? According to GE’s Bill Ruh, even small improvements in some areas could save billions of dollars per year and significantly reduce… Read more »
Time-series data is proliferating like mad in the era of the internet of things and the industrial internet, and Chicago-based startup TempoDB wants to capture it all. The company has $3.2… Read more »
GE is pushing new technology that uses hundreds of sensors and advanced analytics to make its fleet of gas turbines run more efficiently. GE is a big fan of big data,… Read more »
Aquamatix, a Structure: Europe LaunchPad company based in London, is trying to improve the world’s water networks with lots and lots of sensors. Fixing outdated infrastructure is expensive, but real-time data… Read more »
Seattle startup A.R.O. has figured out a way to do life logging with its Saga app without killing your phone’s battery. In fact, it uses less than 1 percent of it… Read more »
Researchers at Cornell University have created a robog capable of predicting human gestures. In theory, smarter robots are better at everything, from pouring drinks without spilling to just seeming more human. Read more »
University of Illinois researchers have created an app and a sensor-filled cradle that turn an iPhone into a mobile spectrophotometer. The combination of that mobile lab data and metadata such as… Read more »
Microsoft had a handful of journalists at its new Envisioning Center last week to show off its latest and greatest technology. Here’s what it demonstrated. Read more »
The secret to Amiigo’s intelligent fitness tracker is a collection of sensors and a reference database full of information about hundreds of activities. The more data users feed it, the smarter… Read more »
Building a robotic bee that acts like a real bee is a lot more complicated than programming a robot to fly around from flower to flower. A project called Green Brain… Read more »