Manufacturers have been adding connected tech and more automation to their factories in recent years. While the manufacturing sector has been an early adopter of dedicated sensors and controllers for decades, in the last few years, manufacturers have … [Read more...]
Here’s how Apple and Google are working together for a phone-based COVID-19 track and trace solution
On a recent IoT Podcast episode, we debated the idea of a phone-based method to track and trace COVID-19, which would certainly have some potential privacy implications. For example, South Korea has kept its number of COVID-19 cases lower than most … [Read more...]
Peer-to-peer track and trace networks are now a thing
Once governments lift their shelter-in-place orders, we'll still need a way to track infections and trace the contacts of people who are infected, especially if we want to resume any sort of normalcy. Governments at the federal level around the world … [Read more...]
IoT news of the week for April 3, 2020
Carriers and clouds make for an uneasy alliance: This week, two announcements came out that are worth discussing. Nokia announced a new service, called AVA Cognitive 5G, that helps telcos manage some of the challenges associated with building 5G … [Read more...]
Podcast: Use your wearable data to detect COVID-19
This week Kevin and I kick off the show with a discussion of who should be tracking you during the pandemic and what rules companies and governments should use in order to protect user privacy. We also dig into the importance of APIs after Apple … [Read more...]