By now, you’ve probably heard about China’s Social Credit scoring system. It combines facial recognition technology with all sorts of personal data to determine if you’re a good citizen. Jaywalk, for example, and you’ll be fined in under a minute, … [Read more...]
Where does your connected device data go? Firewalla tells you that and more.
If you’re reading this post, chances are you have one, if not several, IoT devices in your home. So how do you know that these connected devices are sending your data to the servers that you’d expect? The companies that make our video doorbells, … [Read more...]
IoT news of the week for May 31, 2019
An inside look at device production and citizen tracking in China: There have been numerous news reports over the years detailing the hardships of building connected devices in China. And more recently, we’ve heard about China’s efforts to track … [Read more...]
How Understory builds better weather insights
Weather data and insights is a huge business. IBM paid an estimated $2 billion for The Weather Company in 2015. In 2013, in the agriculture world, Monsanto purchased Climate Corporation for $930 million to get better weather data for crop insurance. … [Read more...]
How to think about organizing data
This week was full of travel to sunny and not-so-sunny locales. On Tuesday, I spent the day in San Diego at the SAS Analytics conference. (They are a sponsor of the show and the newsletter, but I paid my own way.) While there, I spent a lot of time … [Read more...]