The Z-Wave Alliance is opening up: In the wake of this week's news that the three smart home giants are working under the Zigbee Alliance to create the CHIP standard, other organizations are making their own big moves. On Thursday, the Z-Wave … [Read more...]
IoT news of the week for Nov. 29, 2019
Cellular IoT will reach 5 billion connections by 2025: — Ericsson has put out its November 2019 Mobility report with fun data on 5G, smartphone data consumption, and the IoT. For the IoT, the big news is that we're about to hit an inflection point in … [Read more...]
How a customer satisfaction company plans to adapt for IoT
If you've wandered through a large airport in the last few years, you've likely seen a small, white, standalone terminal with four buttons that you could push to register how happy you were with the experience you just had while going through … [Read more...]
Podcast: Amazon’s Eero buy and RISC-V
There were several acquisitions this week and the end of two prominent IoT platforms to cover, so Kevin and I had a lot to talk about. We kick off the show with Amazon's purchase of mesh Wi-Fi company Eero and then segue into a conversation about … [Read more...]
Ericsson tries to make sense of the IoT’s needs
Amid all of the hype around 5G networks, we're losing sight of some very important realities, namely that pointing a 5G network at many IoT use cases is like using a fire hose to fill a pipette. So while there are some use cases that need a fire … [Read more...]