Hologram gets $65M for IoT connectivity: Hologram is a seven-year-old company that provides cellular connectivity and management tools to IoT customers. The company just raised $65 million in a round led by Tiger Global. It brings the total funding … [Read more...]
Podcast: An IoT networking bonanza
Elon Musk's SpaceX satellite broadband company is getting into the IoT with the acquisition of Swarm, a smallsat IoT connectivity provider. We talk about that deal, plus what it means that Helium scored $111 million in funding led by Andreessen … [Read more...]
Podcast: Safe words for smart homes and cheap mesh
We start this week's show with a $200 million funding for Wiliot, a company I profiled back in 2017 as one of the vanguards of low-power sensing. Then we tackle a creative idea that could see consumers create safe words for their smart homes to … [Read more...]
IoT news of the week for April 30, 2021
Microsoft discovers 25 security vulnerabilities in OT devices: Security researchers at Microsoft have shared research showing that a large class of industrial and embedded IoT devices are vulnerable to a class of memory allocation function … [Read more...]
Podcast: Everything you need to know about Project CHIP
This week's show launches with a deep dive on Project Connected Home over IP after the Zigbee Alliance released many new details about the specification. We discuss when you can expect it, the devices you'll see, and the security model. Then we cover … [Read more...]