Monetization, it’s a funny word– filled with a lot of meaning and adopted as a jargon term of late, especially when applied to the tech world. This is particularly true for the Internet of Things (IoT) and, jargon or not, it won’t become a reality unless innovators find ways to make money with it. Most […]
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Dear Cloud: Connected things have brains, too
One way to understand a market’s maturity is to look at how simplistically solutions are described. IoT has often been described as some sort of physical device that pipes sensor data into the cloud for deep learning. This is actually not a bad description. In fact, we do generally want to move as much intelligence as feasible […]
To recharge or not to recharge: a battery of IoT questions
Well, we technologists pretty much have that Internets thing solved. That series of tubes works pretty well. So well in fact that the carriers are busying themselves trying to bring Gigabit to everybody, though nobody really knows what they’re going to do with it (but we all want to be in one of those special […]
Welcome to yet another IoT platform
You’re probably thinking “Really?!? Don’t we already have enough?” And you’d be right. The last count I heard was there are over 125 IoT platforms in the industry. Doesn’t IoT have enough problems reaching maturity without more platforms muddying the waters? That’s not the worst of it, though. If you’re anything like me you are […]