Other IoT

According to this article the answer would be...not far from it! due to the fact that the smart home of today can't provide the integrated and contextualized experience that homeowners expect from a “smart” system. Althouh competition is good since it increases choice, it leads to a fragmented market and a worse user experience. To combat this fragmentation one approach is to use "glue" type apps like IFTTT or even universal control apps like Gideon or Muzzley. The other approach is use the tech giants platforms (Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Apple) and devices that claim compatibility with these. There are basically four types…

Although many IoT articles can be found that go in the direction LoRaWAN vs Cellular IoT this article depicts a different picture where these two can be used in a harmony. The end customers don't care much about the connectivity solution anyway! LoRa chips use around 5x less energy hence they can be used with cheaper batteries and the chips also cost less. The throughput is lower as well so the target applications are actually different and LoRaWAN and C-IoT  can and do work together. Due to this fact Orange is pursuing both LoRaWAN and C-IoT path. The similar transition…

SafeTrx Mariner TS1 is a part of broader SafeTrx application solution for logging, tracking the vessels, monitoring and reviewing of co-related events, developed by 8 West.  Since large vessels already have AIS and marine VHF radio as a safety and SAR alert systems, idea of SafeTrx is to focus on smaller vessels and boats. What about surfers, kayakers,  kiteboards or other extreme water sport adrenaline junkies for whom smartphone application is not an option? For all of them 8 West is developing  SafeTrx Mariner TS1 - a small device that can be installed anywhere. We got one device for testing as a part…

We have already been writing about LoRa vs. Sigfox and about NB-IoT, but what triggered me to write review about Senet and about their business model is the idea of becoming LoRaWAN network operator. Sigfox, as a company, is taking care so that the local Sigfox operators can build up the network in a right way. MNOs would  just need to make SW upgrade of their existing LTE network to get NB-IoT or LTE-M working since they are already using all the other elements an operator needs. I have been asking myself what about LoRa, it’s an open standard, there’s a…

MyDevices is an IoT solution company with the idea of helping people to quickly design, make a prototype and go to market with their IoT solution.  This seems a bit bold statement, so I decided to check out their business concept. They have simple drag and drop IoT project builder called Cayenne. It contains a "Cayenne IoT ready" catalog of devices but it also allows adding new device to the library by utilizing MQTT API  and on the IoT Ready Program partners we see a lot of well known names. Also, there's a myDevices Cayenne Community that can help you with your project…

We’ve already been writing about Arduino development boards, but now I’d focus on development boards that do offer NB-IoT and LTE-M connectivity. The reason for this is the fact that lately we see a lot of IoT business development being done by the MNOs, thus availability of NB-IoT and/or LTE-M connectivity is becoming a common thing these days all over the world. If you’re aiming a large scale IoT project or just some hobby IoT project, I believe that it would be a waste of time to do it all by yourself. The best practice would be to use all…