Ecobee raised more money: Ecobee, the thermostat maker you may recall from the opening story, has raised an additional $47 million Canadian dollars ($36 million) to close its C round of funding at CA$127 million. Ecobee has raised a ton of money, and … [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 Sigfox’s new sensorand network in a box offering before … [Read more...]
Smarter weed detection at an industrial scale
At Bosch Connected World, I spoke with Toby Meene of Bayer about weed-killing technology the agriculture giant was developing with Bosch. The technology would compete with the Blue River tech that John Deere acquired last year. However, the … [Read more...]
IoT could help your city sue polluters for bad air
One of the reasons I'm such a proponent of getting more data from more things and analyzing it is because if we do it right, we can understand what things cost at a granular level. The business world clearly believes this. We see, for example, … [Read more...]
Internet of Things News of the Week, July 7, 2017
Intel lays off 140 working in IoT: This isn't unexpected after the decision to stop producing several maker boards a few weeks back, but Intel has laid of 140 people in Ireland and in the U.S. who worked on its Joule, Edison and Galileo boards. … [Read more...]