Jeff Immelt just joined the board of Tuya Smart: IoT platform provider Tuya, which underlies a ton of connected devices including the Walmart Merkury brand, has named former GE CEO Jeff Immelt as a board member and as the chairman of the firm's … [Read more...]
Reader feedback on the 3 types of IoT
A few weeks back, I proposed that the internet of things is not a single, monolithic entity but could instead be broken down into three broad classes: enterprise, industrial, and consumer. It was something I had been unconsciously doing for quite … [Read more...]
When it comes to industrial IoT, the incumbents are winning
Industrial IoT is killing the traditional narrative of startups disrupting older players out of the market. Instead, leaders in industrial equipment are parlaying both their expertise and their customers' hesitation over new products into new … [Read more...]
We’re far off from everything being delivered as a service
One of the rationales behind a corporate investment in IoT is that it provides the data needed to understand products and equipment so well that they will never go down. Because once a company can predict the behavior of a product or machine, it can … [Read more...]
IoT news of the week for Dec. 14, 2018
GE is launching a new industrial IoT company: The restructuring of GE continues with the industrial conglomerate (less of one, but still really big) saying that it will create a $1.2 billion business focused on industrial IoT. In a surprise move, … [Read more...]