And the Oscar for best home hub goes to... Samsung's SmartThings. That's according to The Wirecutter, which I used to write for, and which has done a deep dive on smart home hubs. However, it also offers the caveat that most people probably don't … [Read more...]
A new Linux Foundation effort for the edge
The Linux Foundation has cobbled together a few different technologies with the aim of making it easier for companies to avoid lock-in with edge computing solutions. The technologies run the gamut from a virtualization engine for gateway devices to a … [Read more...]
Wind River aims to help industrial IoT learn from the cloud
Wind River has formally completed the buyout that separates it from Intel, and once again the 37-year-old company is on its own. I spoke with President and CEO Jim Douglas to understand how the company, once a scion of the industrial and embedded … [Read more...]
The tech world wants to sell you video at the edge
I was in Seattle this week at Microsoft's Build conference, where video was one of the stars of the show. The software company demoed a camera-equipped drone flying over oil pipelines that was using machine learning to recognize oddities in the … [Read more...]
Zededa creates a new architecture for the edge
Edge computing efforts are a dime a dozen nowadays, but after mocking the launch of Zededa a few weeks back for its buzzword-heavy press release without any technical details, I talked to the company's CEO, Said Ouissal. He explained exactly what the … [Read more...]