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Use Cases for Amazon Echo Look More like Smart Phone than Smart Home
Amidst SO MUCH technological advancement, from the proliferation of sensors to form factors to new modes of interaction to software intelligence, many product companies make the grave mistake of over-complicating connected versions of their products. Too many buttons...
In which I’m Interviewed on Enterprise Forces Driving Consumer Adoption of IoT
With the adoption of consumer IoT and smart home devices lagging, analyst Jess Groopman explains to Jeremy Coward why industrial uptake could be the savior of consumer IoT. What follows is an excerpt form a recent interview by Jeremy Coward. You can access the full...
Why Interoperability Holds the Keys to the Smart Home
Investment is pouring into the Smart Home. But is ‘the home of the future’ really viable when it’s just a bunch of Internet-connected appliances? The so-called “Smart Home” market— that is, replacing your current in-home appliances and products with an Internet...
Exploring the True Role of Interoperability in the Smart Home
Lately, you might have noticed a new section at your local big box retailer: “Smart Home.” Although the idea of connecting everyday objects in the home to the Internet seems quite novel, it’s not really the connectivity to the Internet that’s so new. What’s new is the...
Understanding the Insecurity Surrounding Connected Car Security
What once seemed far-fetched, niche, even space-age is now central to the immediate roadmap of just about every automotive manufacturer in the world. In reality, connected cars aren’t all that new: sensors, telemetry, even performance data have been part of automotive...
Five Driving Forces Simultaneously Accelerating & Decelerating Connected Car Security
Although the automotive industry isn’t particularly new to data or telematics, competitive forces are placing huge pressure on manufacturers to figure out how to actually use all these data. What’s new is the imperative for manufacturers to, in real-time and even...
Top Internet of Things Conferences for 2016
Industry practitioners in the IoT and Smart Systems space suffer no shortage of conferences and events to attend. There are dozens of events each month around the world, some taking a broader brush of the space and others focusing on specific markets, technologies,...
In the all-knowing Internet of Things, what happens to my data?
We can find a lot of information on the Internet—arguably more than any single creation in our history. We can search for just about anything: Where can I get a quality New York bagel in Tangier? How many people live on Easter Island? What exactly is “dark matter,”...
3 Questions You Need to be Asking about IoT Security & Privacy
Newsflash: Security in the Internet of Things calls for a completely different approach than that used for “traditional” web-centric IT. Connecting more things changes the way we secure things As objects, people, infrastructures, and environments in the...
