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IoT news of the week for June 21, 2019

June 21, 2019 by Stacey Higginbotham 1 Comment

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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...]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: 5G, Accenture, FCC, ge, IDC, industrial internet consortium, Insteon, Mobiledge X, Signify, SmartRent

IoT news of the week for Jan. 4, 2018

January 4, 2019 by Stacey Higginbotham Leave a Comment

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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...]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: August, Chamberlain, FCC, Lockitron, Ring, Samsara, smart city, Tooshlights

The internet of things is becoming a surveillance tool

October 29, 2018 by Stacey Higginbotham Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Analysis, Featured Tagged With: Amazon, Apple, Chamberlain, FCC, FTC, GDPR, google, nest, Tesla

IoT news of the week for Dec. 15, 2017

December 15, 2017 by Stacey Higginbotham Leave a Comment

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On net neutrality: Thursday the FCC repealed 2015 rules that enshrined network neutrality into law along partisan lines (the same way the law was enacted originally, albeit with years of conversation and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...]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: Amazon Echo, Cognitive Systems, Dotdot, Eero, FCC, Foxconn, Gemalto, net neutrality, Qualcomm, Thread, Wi-Fi, zigbee

The open web is dead, but do we have to kill the internet too?

December 5, 2017 by Stacey Higginbotham Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Analysis, Featured Tagged With: FCC, net neutrality

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