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IoT news of the week for Jan. 7, 2022

January 7, 2022 by Stacey Higginbotham Leave a Comment

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Amazon’s Sidewalk network is getting larger: We caught wind of a new Sidewalk outdoor radio back in December and figured it was meant to be used by Amazon to broaden its LoRaWAN footprint. Turns out, we were correct. Amazon will use professional … [Read more...]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Airthings, Amazon, CES, Garmin, intel, Lasso Labs, Sidewalk, Veea

Podcast: We’re thankful for smart cows

November 25, 2021 by Stacey Higginbotham 2 Comments

Heading into the holiday weekend, Kevin and I share what we're thankful for (mostly y'all, our sponsors, each other, and Thread), while also talking about the sad sale of Tile to Life360. We also discuss Clevr, Qeexo, and efforts to make AI … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Podcast Tagged With: Apple, Aqara, AT&T, Clevr, fitbit, Garmin, google, homekit, Juniper, Life360, qeexo, Samsara, SmaXtec, Tile, Twilio, Very, WearOS

Amazon’s Halo band does what’s it’s designed to do

December 14, 2020 by Stacey Higginbotham Leave a Comment

Amazon's Halo fitness tracker is now available for anyone to buy for $99.99 (plus $4.99 a month). So should you get it? Unless you want to avail yourself of the body scans and feature that tracks your tone of voice, or you want access to a variety of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Reviews Tagged With: Amazon, Amazon Halo, Apple, fitbit, Garmin, Wyze

Why does the data from different health and exercise trackers vary so much?

December 1, 2020 by Kevin C. Tofel Leave a Comment

On our most recent IoT Podcast, Vipul called in to our voicemail hotline with a question about fitness trackers. He has a few wearables and observes that there’s a wide variance between their results for steps taken and calories burned. He also … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, How-To Tagged With: Amazon Halo, Apple Watch, calories, Fitibit, Garmin, Google Fit, health tracking, heart rate, wearables, Whoop

Are you hardcore enough for the Whoop fitness tracker?

November 18, 2020 by Stacey Higginbotham 1 Comment

After a $100 million fundraising event last month, you can expect to hear a lot more about the Whoop fitness band in your feeds and the media. The device is unlike most fitness bands in the market and is probably best thought of as a connected coach … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Reviews Tagged With: Apple Watch, fitbit, fitness tracking, Garmin, health data, sensors, wearables, Whoop

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