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Podcast: It’s M&A season for the smart home

September 19, 2019 by Stacey Higginbotham Leave a Comment

This week alarm company Vivint went public through a reverse merger, with the aim of becoming a leader in the smart home and security space. We discuss the transaction and what it means for the small clutch of smart home companies that have one or … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Podcast Tagged With: Afero, Amazon, Avnet, Canary, Eve, Facebook, google, nest, Philips Hue, SimpleCommands, The Transtec Group, vivint, Wink, Wyze, YSL

IoT news of the week for September 13, 2019

September 13, 2019 by Stacey Higginbotham Leave a Comment

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McRock Capital raises C$80M of Industrial IoT fund: McRock Capital, a Canadian venture fund that invests in companies trying to serve industrial firms, has raised C$80 million of a planned C$100 million fund. The company has now launched the fund, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: AI, Avnet, CEDIA, Control4, ge, Google Voice, industrial iot, iot, Konnected, medical devices, ProGlove

A Swiss startup takes on AI at the sensor edge

January 23, 2019 by Stacey Higginbotham 3 Comments

At CES, I ran into a startup at Avnet's booth called Octonion. It was showing off a little brick comprised of more than half a dozen sensors that ran software for predictive maintenance and anomaly detection. Avnet was selling the brick, which was … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Startups Tagged With: Avnet, Microsot, Octonion, ST Micro

Podcast: Nest CEO is out and Jacuzzi is in with the IoT

July 19, 2018 by Stacey Higginbotham Leave a Comment

Nest's CEO has been forced out, and GE and Microsoft create even deeper integrations for industrial IoT. Also this week, UPS creates a partnership with a startup to take on Amazon Key, and we discus the common question of if you should upgrade your … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Podcast Tagged With: Afero, alexa, Andoid Wear, Apple, August Lock, Avnet, connected car, enterprise, ge, google, homekit, industrial internet, Jacuzzi, Latch, Light, Mark Allen, Microsoft, nest, Openpath, UPS, Zoox

IoT news of the week for June 8, 2018

June 8, 2018 by Stacey Higginbotham Leave a Comment

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Attention coffee shop browsers, Wi-Fi may get better: The Wi-Fi Alliance has created a new certification called Enhanced Open that basically enables public Wi-Fi networks to allow people to browse securely without signing in. The tech is based on … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: Avnet, cloudpets, Hailo, Mastercard, nvidia, nxp, Qualcomm, Relayr, Samsung SmartThings, security, Visa, Wi-Fi, XCOM

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