IoT news

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…

Idea behind "Ja, Preduzetnik" is to encourage people to become entrepreneurs. Guys will interview successful entrepreneurs from Serbia that will share their stories about life, about success and failure and business lessons. The first interview is very open, honest and inspiring and the guest is Nebojša Matić from MikroElektonika - an very important company if you are in IoT device development from the SEE region.

Agricultural technology is developing in a rapid pace and there is a lot of money being invested in Agricultural technology or shortened AgTech startups. AgTech works side by side with IoT since it uses soil sensors, cameras, weather stations etc. that gather data about farming operations and send data via different connectivity options to the edge or the cloud. All that data can then be used by algorithms or other software and turned into various insights, reports or automatic predefined actions. This artilce  lists several farm management platforms and also companies that are selling smart fungicides, using bio growth stimulants, selling…