This week Kevin and I spend a bit of time on industrial IoT news with Rockwell Automation’s $1 billion investment in PTC and also ARM’s buy of a Stream Technologies. On the consumer side, we debate Wi-Fi subscription plans and Nest’s price … [Read more...]
Bulbs are broken. Services will win in lighting.
One of the big promises of what people like to call digital transformation that's occurring with connected everything is a change in business models. Companies can go from selling things and having a one-time relationship with a client to selling a … [Read more...]
IoT news of the week for March 9, 2018
Haier's business transformation takes Six Sigma to the new era: For anyone trying to figure out what digital transformation will actually mean for their business, bookmark this article by Zhang Ruimin, chairman of Chinese appliance firm Haier. In … [Read more...]
InfluxData and the TICK stack for IoT data streaming
With every advancement in technology we get a new database to get excited about. With the cloud, we started caring about scale, and No-SQL databases rose to the fore. With social networks, graph databases became the hot new thing. And now, with the … [Read more...]
IoT News of the week for Oct 20, 2017
Samsung takes steps toward making its IoT vision real: In 2015 I sat in a CES hall listening to the head of Samsung describe his vision of a connected world where all devices worked together. This was after Samsung had purchased SmartThings, which … [Read more...]