Last year, as an amateur (and I mean very amateur) developer, I created a simple Python app using Twilio APIs to run our IoT Podcast Hotline voicemail. Since the service has to run all the time, I decided to use an inexpensive Raspberry Pi as the … [Read More...]
Data is not the new oil, but it could keep customers loyal
Every business is after that sweet, sweet data. After all, data is the new oil. Businesses need to connect their products so they can mine data from them and then store the data in so-called data lakes in the cloud. These are actual sentences that … [Read More...]
Hubitat makes a strong case for the cloud-less smart home hub
On the most recent IoT Podcast, we talked about the Hubitat Elevation: A new smart home hub that doesn’t connect to the cloud. Instead, Hubitat keeps all of the device rules, automations and data locally. With all of the recent news about data … [Read More...]
More IoT News
IoT security is too hard, so we’re giving up
We're putting a lot of technology in a lot more places these days, and we're connecting it to the internet in the hopes of being able to see new patterns so we can change our lifestyles and … [Read More...]
IoT news of the week for May 18, 2018
Google plays hardball with hardware partners: This story actually focuses on Sonos playing hardball with Google over patents, with Sonos making an implicit threat to sue Google over patent … [Read More...]
Podcast: New Wi-Fi standards and robots
The Wi-Fi Alliance has created a new standard for mesh networks, and Kevin and I are on top of it, discussing what it means, who’s participating, and whether or not it matters. We then tackle … [Read More...]
Wi-Fi EasyMesh: The good, the bad and the ugly
I was initially excited earlier this week when I heard the Wi-Fi Alliance introduced EasyMesh, a mesh networking standard that promised to deliver “greater flexibility in device choice” for home … [Read More...]
How stealth startup Edgeworx helped me rethink the IoT edge
Are you sick of hearing the word edge yet? I am. The tech world is struggling right now to come up with the right way to express a complex shift in how it thinks about computing infrastructure. The … [Read More...]