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I have recently stumbled upon Twillio and it's definitely quite an interesting company. The company main focus is handling the backend and connecting to various telecom hardware by exposing a globally available cloud API that developers can use to build communications systems. Here I am writing about the products called Super SIM (one SIM to connect IoT devices globally) and Narrowband (the SDK and developer kit for the NB-IoT). The Super SIM is done in partnerships with Singtel, Telefonica and Three group to provide a SIM card that works everywhere in the world. The Narrowband focus is currently only on…

We can often hear that the prisons are overpopulated and that situation is getting worse and this is definitely a problem to be solved - why not to do it with IoT technology. Geosatis is bringing interesting use case for IoT in a mission of offender rehabilitation, enhanced public safety and reduced recidivism. They made turn-key solution covering ankle bracelets, indoor base stations, victim protection devices, monitoring software and mobile app, and also predictive analytics services. It seems that with a a bit of today's available technology you can do a lot for the victims to feel safer, offenders to…

Here's the hearing impaired doorbell hack that you may find helpful for someone who's having a problem of not getting a fully functional solution with commercial off the shelf hearing impaired products. General idea of this hack is to be able to see lights flashing in the multiple rooms at the same time. A possible upgrade of the solution would be to have additional sensor (movement, noise) that is able to give input about people presence in the room and thus make a system rule for which rooms to flash the lights. On the same website you can find many useful tutorials, one…

Micro:bit Educational Foundation  is a not-profit organisation with a vision to inspire every child to create their best digital future. So, next generation of hardware and software designers have used Micro:bit to provide learning to more than 5 million chilrdren about IoT and SW development. There have been national roll-outs in primary and secondary schools in Singapore, Iceland, Denmark, UK and also Croatia where we have the largest extracurricular STEM program in the EU – Croatian Makers movement. We already have some young individuals that do inspire us, like Alber Gajšek with its MAKERbuino, and I hope this kind of movements will inspire creativity of many other…

Using different kinds of airship balloons for getting rapid on-demand wireless network coverage or capacity upgrade is not a new concept, some of you maybe remember the HiperSfera project that was in front of its time. Anyhow, on Alibaba Cloud Computing Conference 2018. Wei Wu, Director of Ecological Cooperation, Alibaba Cloud IoT  announced the news about the industry’s first LoRa Airship Balloon: “Alibaba Cloud Arial IoT LoRa Station connects from 20 meters under ground to 40,000 meters in the space”. Alibaba Cloud is member of LoRa Alliance and it provides a complete set of LPWAN solutions for: smart meters, smart cities, smart manufacturing, smart agriculture. This…