Two years ago, Denver scored a $6 million grant from the federal government to pursue a smarter transportation infrastructure. The city matched those funds and so has roughly $12 million to spend on improving its transportation infrastructure with … [Read more...]
Here’s a startup building smart suburbs
Last week, I focused on smart cities, but this week I'm going to talk about issues associated with smart suburbs. In smart cities, the priorities tend to be safety, energy efficiency, and better transportation. In the suburbs, some concerns are the … [Read more...]
Podcast: The smart home goes public
This week’s show takes up last week’s news of Netgear’s Arlo divisionand Sonos filing for initial public offerings. Kevin and I share what we see in the filings and what it means for the smart home. We also discuss Amazon’s Prime Day deals and … [Read more...]
Podcast: Smart stents, surveillance tech and Alexa-powered faucets
This week’s episode begins on a grim note, as Kevin and I discuss the New York Times’ story about how smart home gadgets can become another point of control in abusive relationships. From there we touch on the new Wi-Fi WPA3 security standard and … [Read more...]
Swim.ai offers machine learning at the edge
I know I've been writing nonstop about the pendulum shifting back to computing on the device (so-called edge computing) as opposed to in the cloud, and this week's startup profile is yet another example of why this shift is … [Read more...]