Bluetooth mesh is maturing, but will commercial lighting adopt it? I am in the middle of a deep dive into Bluetooth's viability in enterprise and commercial spaces, so when I saw this article I had to look. It talks mostly about the rise of Bluetooth … [Read more...]
Cloudflare aims to create a “third place” for computing jobs
This week, Cloudflare introduced its Workers platform to the world as a new form of edge computing. The news is worth taking a closer look at given all the intense focus on edge computing today. For example, the telcos are all pushing forward with … [Read more...]
Lunera wants to define the shape of edge computing
This week I met a company called Lunera that's embedding computing in LED light bulbs. Literally. Each LED bulb slots into a traditional enterprise or commercial lighting ballast and contains an ARM Cortex A7 quad-core processor that also has Wi-Fi … [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...]
Internet of Things News of the Week, July 21, 2017
Particle gets $20 million: IoT development platform Particle, which used to be known as Spark, has received $20 million in venture capital to expand its platform. Particle is a public IoT success story from an era when everyone had a hardware-based … [Read more...]