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...]
Podcast: How Amazon treats your Alexa data
This week Kevin and I read and discuss the letter from Amazon responding to inquiries about how it keeps and handles data. We go in-depth because it's important to discuss the tradeoff between services and privacy. We also discuss a company leaking … [Read more...]
IoT news of the week for Jan. 18, 2019
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...]