Google Home works with multiple voice assistants? Google claims that its Home products only work with Google Assistant. Sonos, however, disagrees, and to prove it has even offered to demonstrate how its own technology supports both Alexa and Google … [Read more...]
IoT news of the week for Oct. 16, 2020
Infiot thinks factory devices need their own SD-WANs: If you hang out long enough in the networking world or the world of enterprise IT, you'll eventually come across the term Software-Defined Wide-Area Network, or SD-WAN. The concept of an SD-WAN is … [Read more...]
IoT news of the week for Sept. 25, 2020
Did the CBRS auctions fail? For the last few years, I've been writing about the creation of private cellular networks created using newly freed spectrum in the Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) band. The idea was that corporate campuses, … [Read more...]
Podcast: Manufacturing trends during the pandemic
This week on the IoT podcast we begin by talking about what the widespread adoption of ultrawideband chips in phones could mean for the IoT. From there, it's on to Google's always-listening software update, humans coming back into the QA loop, and … [Read more...]
How the pandemic is changing operations in U.S. factories
Manufacturers have been adding connected tech and more automation to their factories in recent years. While the manufacturing sector has been an early adopter of dedicated sensors and controllers for decades, in the last few years, manufacturers have … [Read more...]