Kevin is back this week and we kick off the show discussing GE’s decision to spin out its industrial IoT business. From there we talk about the closure of Lighthouse, the smart camera maker, a critical update for Hue bulbs and Qualcomm’s new IoT … [Read more...]
The tech world wants to sell you video at the edge
I was in Seattle this week at Microsoft's Build conference, where video was one of the stars of the show. The software company demoed a camera-equipped drone flying over oil pipelines that was using machine learning to recognize oddities in the … [Read more...]
Podcast: Mobile World Congress news and a deep dive into IOTA
The big news from this week has been Amazon’s proposed acquisition of Ring for $1 billion or more. Kevin and I explain the deal and share our concerns before turning to the issue of smarter cameras, including the recently reviewed Google Clip. From … [Read more...]
IoT news of the week for Feb. 23, 2018
Another piece in place for Google’s IoT toolbox: Just last week, when writing about Google’s purchase of Xively, I noted that Google didn’t have any IoT customer success stories. That changed this week as Google’s IoT Core product became generally … [Read more...]
The next step in IoT is vision, so let’s give computers depth perception
I talk a lot about computer vision because I think it's a core enabling technology for vastly more efficient understanding and use of the world around us. When a computer can see, it can apply its intense analytical powers to the images and offer … [Read more...]