Hitachi Vantara to buy Waterline Data: Hitachi's IoT-focused organization, Vantara, has agreed to buy Waterline Data, which makes software to organize data inside companies. Waterline's software analyzes metadata to understand what types of data are … [Read more...]
Podcast: Google’s smart home vision explained
This week Kevin and I discuss the aftermath of the big Google event, covering the new devices, the focus on ambient computing, and changes to the Nest subscription and Works with Assistant programs. From there we cover a new smart lock backed by … [Read more...]
IoT news of the week for September 20, 2019
Plutoshift has raised $8M: Plutoshift, a company that provides prescriptive intelligence for industrial processes, has raised $8 million from a surprisingly diverse group of investors. They include Fall Line Capital and Unshackled Ventures, both … [Read more...]
Do we need another industrial wireless standard?
This week, Microsoft, Advantec, and Hitachi sighed a deal with a company called Behr Technologies to bring a new form of low-power networking technology to the industrial manufacturing arena. The standard was developed at the Fraunhofer Institute and … [Read more...]
Hitachi’s new IoT play and Nest becomes a security company
On this week's Internet of Things Podcast, hosts Stacey Higginbotham and Kevin Tofel discuss the big news from Nest. August also updated its line of locks and promised a better doorbell. Meanwhile, rumors of an Amazon Alexa security system or even … [Read more...]