#IoT saving the Amazon
As a passionate environmentalist who’s always looking for economical win-win solutions to thorny environmental issues, this one caught my eye! Chris Rezendes of INEX Advisors blogged recently about a...
View ArticleNew report projects major greenhouse gas cuts with M2M implementation
For much of my career I was an environmental strategist, emphasizing new technologies that could cut waste and boost the economy. As a result, I was delighted to read a new report that projects up to...
View Articlesurvey: M2M natural evolution of “consumerization of IT”
A new survey of worldwide IT decision makers (ITDMs as the acronym goes…) by Harris Interactive for SAP includes some pretty convincing reminders that the Internet of Things (in this case the emphasis...
View ArticleMQTT: important Internet of Things facilitator?
As I mentioned at the time, part of the news when IBM announced its new heavy-duty MessageSight appliance to handle the vast quantity of real-time data sharing between sensors on the Internet of Things...
View ArticleMy presentation tonight on human communication and the IoT
I just uploaded my presentation to tonight’s Boston/New England IoT Meetup, which will be held in Providence beginning at 5:30. I’ll be speaking about what’s often overlooked in the introduction of...
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Cormoran Project: Ad hoc human networks and the IoT
I first became interested in mesh networks when I was focusing on the role of individuals in homeland security — what I call “networked homeland security.” I learned about a project at the University...
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Hallelujah! The Internet of People launches
Most readers of this blog probably already know Rob van Kranenburg, arguably THE leading European Internet of Things theorist. What you may not know is that, for the past year, he and a core group of...
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Essential Truth: Gathering “Ground Truth” through IoT
This is the second in my occasional series of “Essential Truths” — key principles and questions about the Internet of Things. On Tuesday, when I speak to our next Boston/New England IoT Meetup on the...
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Essential Truth of the IoT: empowering individuals!
I am still euphoric after last night’s IoT Meetup in Providence (such a meeting of the minds!) and it inspired me to write another of my posts about what I see as “Essential Truths” of the IoT! In...
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#IoT breakthrough! 3-D printing tiny batteries to allow “smart dust”
Last Friday my wife and I were driving through the wilds of Utah (aside: wow, is the West different from The Hub of the Universe!) when we chanced upon SciFri, which was doing a great segment about...
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$100 billion potential savings in medical costs: more evidence for GlowCap!
In the draft of the article on the Internet of Things that Cisco’s Dave Evans and I hope to sell to the Harvard Business Review, the lede (BTW, I love old newsie terms, like “pieing the type”…) is...
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ivee Sleek: 1st Wifi voice-activated assistant for home
I’m still dubious about the Internet of Things refrigerator meme (although, as someone who shops daily for dinner and only decides what to cook about 2 hours before hand on the basis of a web search...
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Shodan: maybe this will get people to take IoT privacy/security seriously!
Wired has an article this week about Shodan, the “IoT search engine,” which I hope scares the bejesus out of enough companies and government officials that they’ll finally realize how absolutely...
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et. al.: Head Start cuts due to sequester
When I relaunched this blog, I promised that it would occasionally touch on non-Internet of Things, non-big data issues. So here goes. Instead of going into the Army, I started my career as a...
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GE Eggminder: could this simple product build IoT awareness?
As someone who spends much of his time introducing the Internet of Things to people who’ve never heard of it, much less thought about how it might improve their lives, I think there might be something...
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Finally! Feedburner feed finally available for this blog!
It took me forever, but I finally figured out how to create an easy-to-use Feedburner feed for this blog! All you have to do is to click on the RSS chiclet in the upper right-hand corner of this page...
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Fewer, faster, finer: good values for #IoT innovators!
Just had a great conversation with a brilliant consultant, Michael Woody, the president and founder of International Marketing Advantages, Inc (he and I have the same wonderful literary agent, Michael...
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More evidence U.S. lags dangerously behind EU on IoT privacy
There’s new confirmation that the U.S. remains dangerously behind the European Union on the twin issues of Internet of Things privacy and security. As I’ve warned before, especially in the context of...
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GE Crowdsourcing Design For 3-D Printing Project
OK, I admit to losing all sense of objectivity on this one! After all, it hits all my sweet spots: Internet of Things (AKA GE’s “Internet of Things”) 3-D printing crowdsourcing/collaboration. As I...
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CRUCIAL: more media coverage underscores need for IoT emphasis on privacy &...
Sorry to keep harping on it, but two recent articles in high-visibility publications — The NY Times and Forbes — underscore my contention that security and privacy issues threaten to derail the IoT...
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