IoT news

UWB technology is not planning to be used for connectivity but instead for location based services since it offers fine ranging which would allow to deliver a high level of accuracy of the position of the device and also the distance. It can be used for all non-GPS i.e. indoor or similar use cases where the exact location is important. The FiRa consortium is backed with some well-known industry names: ASSA ABLOY Group, NXP Semiconductors, Samsung Electronics, Bosch, Sony Imaging, LitePoint and the Telecommunications Technology Association (TTA) so the technology probably has potential. The article showing more details can be…

Recently I have been exploring the features of virtual assistants and now I'm planning a visit to Berlin with my family during our summer vacation. Nowadays, planning is a bit different than before, since we also need to plan things that might be interesting for our 3-year old kid. That's not a problem for sure, there's a bunch of interesting places in Berlin, but it would be really useful to have a solution that could give us on the move information about nearby facilities, parks, events - just to ease those unpredictable moments. When you look at it, city like…

I have read an interesting article about partnership with the American operator Senet and pest control product maker Woodstream Co. Their products are actually rodent traps with LoRa connectivity that gives these traps mobile and web monitoring, real-time alerting and multi-year battery life. The major benefits are faster emptying of the traps, disease control and no manual servicing of all the traps i.e. less people needed to do the job. More information here. This is really one interesting IoT application.

I have managed to read an interesting article from Bain (a management consulting company) that gives a good overview of IIOT trends. For me the fact that the predictive maintenance has failed to take off as broadly as expected is also a surprise. The artice gives some good trending graphs about: Short and long-term predictions about implementation Concerns over integration issues A very useful chart showing which IoT applications are gaining the most traction from vendors and customers perspective the IIOT market 201.7 and 2021. IoT M&A deal value A very useful chart showing number of developers on LinkedIn mentioning each IIoT…

If you are a coffee lover as I am, than you'll be thrilled with Coffee Cloud startup and their goal of making "our" world better. NO MORE bad taste of first morning cups of coffee, because someone was lazy to clean the espresso machine. It's all about the quality of the entire supply chain, so you'd have satisfied customer in the end. You can check the rest of the benefits that Coffee Cloud solution brings on their web page and here's a short video overview of it.

Although the 2019. has started almost 20 days ago, I have stumbled upon a good overview article about IoT future predictions and trends to watch. These trends are described in the telecom industry, cybersecurity, data and sensors, cloud edge and hybrid solutions and finally smart cities. The article gives a broad overview about trends. Here is the article.