Brilliant Home Technology nabs $21M in additional funding: After raising an initial $3M from SV Tech Ventures, The Box Group, and Miramar Ventures, smart lighting company Brilliant announced a $21M Series A round of funding this week. This round was … [Read more...]
Internet of Things Podcast: Vitamix COO blends with Bluetooth
Both Dell and Salesforce made big announcements about their internet of things plans this week, so Kevin and I try to break that down for people. We also review the latest August lock and doorbell hardware and answer a listener question from Sally … [Read more...]
GE discovers that industrial IoT doesn’t scale
This week Reuters did a deep dive into problems with GE's industrial IoT efforts. The company had taken a two-month "time out" to fix problems with its Predix software platform designed for the industrial IoT and has asked executives to cut costs. GE … [Read more...]
What exactly is the edge of the network?
Spend time with anyone offering enterprise or industrial internet of things products and you'll encounter the term edge: edge devices, the network edge or edge analytics. But the term by itself is almost useless because depending on who you are … [Read more...]
How to scale the industrial IoT
This week on The Internet of Things Podcast we take a deep dive into the launch of the EdgeX Foundry platform for the industrial internet of things. Dell’s Jason Shepherd describes the newly launched open source effort as a way to scale IoT like we … [Read more...]