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...]
Denver’s smart city dreams start with smart data management
Two years ago, Denver scored a $6 million grant from the federal government to pursue a smarter transportation infrastructure. The city matched those funds and so has roughly $12 million to spend on improving its transportation infrastructure with … [Read more...]
OK IoT fans, here’s what’s next!
As more and more companies connect their devices to the internet or even a local intranet, they are realizing that there's a lot of data coming off sensors, robots, and other devices. And that data is valuable. Specifically, some of that data is so … [Read more...]