As GE preps to sell some of its digital businesses — perhaps even its Predix platform, which is designed to take manufacturing data and analyze it as part of GE's industrial IoT efforts — I've been thinking about the fate of companies at the edge. It … [Read more...]
IoT news of the week for August 2, 2018
JBL Link View pre-orders begin: Following the recent release of Lenovo’s Smart Display, JBL now has its own Google Home entry, the Link View; pre-orders have begun at $249. The functionality is identical to that of Lenovo’s model; JBL even included … [Read more...]
Nice S.p.A acquires Fibaro and other IoT news of the week for July 13, 2018
Nice S.p.A acquires Fibaro for $73 million: Nice S.p.A, an Italian company that makes smart home management software purchased Fibaro, a Polish maker of a Z-wave-based home automation systems. The deal follows an investment by Nice in Fibaro as well … [Read more...]
5 reasons the IoT needs smarts at the edge
Edge computing is hot right now, but not everyone understands why so many people are so focused on keeping their data in gateways or on on-premise services instead of sending it to the cloud. While it may seem like a huge shift to bring processing to … [Read more...]
IoT News of the week for Jan. 26, 2018
Awesome paper on hacking sensors and what it means: I love human ingenuity, not only for building things up, but also because we can figure out novel ways to take things apart. Unfortunately this poses security risks as we combine our physical and IT … [Read more...]