This year, I wanted to avoid giving IoT gifts, partly because I hadn't tested as many products as I normally do and partly because I think everyone is pretty turned off by the potential for security risks and privacy encroachments. I have seen at … [Read more...]
Podcast: The IoT Holiday Gift Guide
This week Kevin and kick off the show on a serious note, pointing out that the U.S. is approaching China in terms of the number of people per every IP camera. We draw a line between that fact and the surveillance capabilities that Ring allows through … [Read more...]
Podcast: Nanoleaf Canvas review and a talk with Tuya
We kick off this week’s podcast with Kevin’s struggles to get his Google Home to talk to Wink. Then we unpack some of the standards news out from the ZigBee Alliance and the Open Connectivity Foundation, which is introducing OCF-over-Thread. From … [Read more...]
IoT news of the week for Oct. 18,2019
IoT devices will give a boost to PKI certificates: One of the popular ways to secure a connected device is to keep a secret identity stored on a secure portion of the chip and then check that identity against a certificate stored in the cloud. There … [Read more...]
IoT news of the week for Sept. 7, 2018
Industrial IoT platform Relayr acquired: Good news for those invested in the industrial IoT. Munich Re, an insurance firm, acquired Relayr for $300 million this week. Relayr helps industrial and enterprise clients connect their machines to the … [Read more...]