Washington state has enacted a law to protect health data: Most people are unaware that the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) only protects health data shared by doctors and insurance companies. So when your medical data … [Read more...]
IoT news of the week for Sept. 2, 2022
Hello Kitty, meet Raspberry Pi: There’s yet another use for the inexpensive Raspberry Pi compute board. And you’re not likely to guess it, so I’ll just tell you: Someone made a cat doorbell using a Pi. No, the cat doesn’t press a button or show up on … [Read more...]
IoT news of the week for August 20, 2021
Amazon now offers machine learning at the edge instead of in its cloud: Amazon Web Services detailed how customers can use AWS Outposts (which is a service that replicates AWS services from the cloud on a company's own local gear) and Amazon's … [Read more...]
There’s something about Singapore
Singapore's smart city efforts have been covered extensively in the media, yet I learned two things in a recent conversation with two officials responsible for the underlying data platform. The first is that many of the U.S. smart city efforts are … [Read more...]
IoT News of the Week, February 17 2017
Here’s a wrap up of important news in the internet of things this week. You can get this in your inbox each week by subscribing to my newsletter. This is a good IoT project: London installed equipment to track the WiFi on people's phones as they … [Read more...]