Whether employee or consumer, patient or citizen, one truth underlies all of the hats we wear: we’re all people. Our experiences, perceptions, and inclinations as creatures of pattern, privacy, and comfort inform how we engage with the world around us and with the...
That the Internet of Things offers retailers tremendous opportunities is no secret. But how to apply it effectively, usefully, ethically, and sustainably remains a mystery. Even for the largest retailers in the world, initiatives using sensors to create meaningful...
Today’s IoT forecast called for a partnership between IBM and the Weather Company. If this announcement is at first perplexing, keeping scrolling down as IBM is also announcing (literally in the same press release) it will be investing $3 BILLION dollars to create a...
A lot of people are wanting to know more about these ‘beacon’ things. What are they in the first place? What do they do? And– a question recently assessed by Reveal Mobile– how many of them are already out there?? Let’s start with the basics: Beacons are...
There’s a reason consumer-facing companies have been struggling to know what to do with the Internet of Things. It’s certainly not for lack of hearing about it — we hear about dozens of new bright, shiny [connected] objects every day, it seems....
