This week's show has a lot of big numbers starting with $12.6 trillion, which is at the upper end of what McKinsey believes the economic impact from IoT will be by 2030. We cover the latest report, which is a reassessment of McKinsey's famous 2015 … [Read more...]
Blues Wireless and a new model for data plans
This week, Ray Ozzie's IoT startup Blues Wireless raised $22 million on top of an $11 million round raised in March of 2020. The premise behind Blues is that building IoT devices is hard, so how can a company make it easier for developers to add … [Read more...]
IoT news of the week for May 28, 2021
Is this an easier way to build digital twins? Digital twins are digital simulations of the physical world and a physical process. By applying real-world data to a virtual model people can understand how forces or stresses might affect an individual … [Read more...]
IoT platform provider Tuya files to go public
Tuya, the Chinese company that provides a backend service for IoT device makers, had filed to raise $100 million through an initial public offering. The company, founded in 2014, reported $179.9 million in revenue for 2020 and a net loss of $66.9 … [Read more...]
Why 5G network slicing is a big deal for IoT
This week, Ericsson announced that it's made network slicing commercially available for networks running its 5G equipment. This is a game changer for the industrial and enterprise IoT, and maybe later, for consumers. Network slicing may also allow … [Read more...]