Welcome to another show! We're spending the first few minutes of the show diving into the rise of RF sensing in the IoT, covering the news of Amazon applying for an FCC waiver to use radar for sleep tracking, the FCC creating a notice of proposed … [Read more...]
What’s in my smart home in July 2021
It's been two years since I moved from my home in Austin to a rental home on Bainbridge Island outside of Seattle, and one year since I moved into my permanent home here. Which means I've had ample time to set up a new smart home infrastructure that … [Read more...]
Private networks are coming. Businesses are not ready.
Yes, it was just two weeks ago that I wrote about factories not yet deploying 5G networks. And that's still true. But in the meantime, as companies investigate 5G, they are also assessing the validity of private networks — networks that don't share … [Read more...]
IoT News of the Week for July 9, 2021
Solid-state lighting moves a bit further: Amber, a startup building solid-state silicon to control lighting, has signed a deal with Infineon to commercialize its next-generation lighting controller, Amber (which I profiled last year). Amber's … [Read more...]
Podcast: The IoT is a privacy nightmare and more 5G
Imagine all of the potential problems associated with the internet of things, and then settle in, because I think we talk about all of them in this episode. We start by detailing research out of Northeastern University that shows old data isn't … [Read more...]