When it comes to edge computing and machine learning, there's a lot of marketing hype out there that ignores the reality of current deployments. Dan Jeavons, general manager of data science at Shell, said at a Stacey on IoT event on Thursday that … [Read more...]
What Arable learned bringing the IoT to farmers
Four years ago, I spoke with Adam Wolf, then the CEO of Arable, which was building a connected device designed to help farmers manage their irrigation and improve crop yields. Its device — the Arable Mark — was launched in 2017. It contained sensors … [Read more...]
IoT news of the week for Oct. 11, 2019
Dialog Semiconductor buys Creative Chips for industrial IoT: Dialog has purchased Creative Chips for $80 million to expand its industrial IoT options. Creative Chips makes silicon for rugged ethernet. Even as factories go wireless, we're still going … [Read more...]
CES day 4 was all about tech going new places
Wednesday was mostly meeting-free and I dedicated my time to wandering around the Las Vegas Convention Center trying to find cool things or new ideas. I kicked off the day with John Deere (NYSE: DE) discussing the latest in ag tech. I've been talking … [Read more...]
Smarter weed detection at an industrial scale
At Bosch Connected World, I spoke with Toby Meene of Bayer about weed-killing technology the agriculture giant was developing with Bosch. The technology would compete with the Blue River tech that John Deere acquired last year. However, the … [Read more...]