San Francisco CBS affiliate KPIX has been following a mysterious minivan tooling around Concord, California, with a roof rack fool of advanced sensors. Checking in with the Department of Motor Vehicles,… Read more »
When Whistle first came on the scene with in 2013 with its dog activity monitor, there was already an established player in the canine wearable market, Tagg the Pet Tracker. Well, that… Read more »
Regional mobile carrier US Cellular announced a new home automation and security service called OnLook, which looks to be aimed squarely at AT&T’s Digital Life and other smart-home-in-a-box services.s US Cellular… Read more »
Quantified driving Zendrive doesn’t just want to grade our own behaviors behind the wheel, but also those of the taxi drivers and car-sharers that chauffeur us around our cities. Read more »
Weather tracking isn’t just Android owners any more. OpenSignal has made its crowdsourced climate-monitoring app available on iOS though only iPhone 6 and 6 Plus users can take measurements. Read more »
TV white spaces haven’t emerged as global networking band like Weightless had hoped. So now it’s planning to build its internet-of-things connectivity network on the same industrial bands used by ZigBee,… Read more »
OpenSignal uses crowdsourcing to measure 4G network quality today, but its plan is tap all of the sensors in the smartphone to collect data from our surroundings. It’s already started tracking… Read more »
PlaceMe uses every sensor in the phone to track your activity. Now PlaceUs is doing the same except it’s tracking the combined activity of a family or small group of friends. Read more »
With the help of StormTag, OpenSignal wants to open up its WeatherSignal crowdsourcing program to the iPhone as well as collect new types of climate data. Read more »
Italy’s VisLab has selected BlackBerry’s QNX OS to power its computer vision experiments in autonomous cars. The idea is to help the car to combine and process the information it gets… Read more »