A lot happened in the Internet of Things world over the past week, and Internet of Things Podcast hosts Stacey Higginbotham and Kevin Tofel bring you up to speed in this week's Internet of Things Podcast. Is popping RFID tags into employees that bad? … [Read more...]
The quickest (and cheapest) way to start a Smart Home
Want to get started with a smart home but don't know where to start? Stacey Higginbotham to the rescue. In this video, she explains the quickest and cheapest way to get started. All you need is an Amazon Echo Dot and a smart outlet plug, such as … [Read more...]
Swidget wants to build smarts into your walls
Smart homes generate a lot of clutter. I look around my home today and each room has its cluster of white or black devices with glowing LEDs. Most of my outlets sport an unsightly transformer blob that acts as a repeater, a doorbell chime or some … [Read more...]
Bluetooth mesh is here, and boy, is it complicated!
I can see why it took two years to develop a mesh networking topology for Bluetooth. Basically, the members of the Bluetooth Special Interest Group are shoehorning the low power personal area network into an entirely new use case. The SIG and its … [Read more...]
Internet of Things News of the Week, July 21, 2017
Particle gets $20 million: IoT development platform Particle, which used to be known as Spark, has received $20 million in venture capital to expand its platform. Particle is a public IoT success story from an era when everyone had a hardware-based … [Read more...]
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