The FCC looks at connectivity for farms: Agriculture is taking advantage of innovations in sensors and AI to bring technology to farming. However, as I've written before, farmers are often stuck in areas without quality cellular coverage. A group of … [Read more...]
IoT news of the week for Jan. 4, 2018
Samsara raises $100M for fleet management: Samsara, which started out as a broad IoT platform and quickly narrowed its focus to fleet management, has raised $100 million in funding at a reported $3.6 billion valuation. That brings it into unicorn … [Read more...]
The internet of things is becoming a surveillance tool
Whenever I'm away from home, in the morning I like to check in on my family by looking at the doorbell camera where I can see them leave for work and school. In the evening, I can generally tell if my daughter is upstairs in her room based on the … [Read more...]
IoT news of the week for Dec. 15, 2017
On net neutrality: Thursday the FCC repealed 2015 rules that enshrined network neutrality into law along partisan lines (the same way the law was enacted originally, albeit with years of conversation and negotiating.) I don't have much to say beyond … [Read more...]
The open web is dead, but do we have to kill the internet too?
For many years I covered the the Federal Communications Commission, specifically the years-long fight to get some sort of formal network neutrality regulation passed. Then I started digging into the so-called internet of things a half decade ago as … [Read more...]