IoT, M2M & embedded solutions

All Smart City strategies have one thing in common: a nervous system of connected objects that gather and transmit data. These objects may do any number of things – monitor pollution levels, check water levels, measure noise levels, optimize garbage…

The connected objects that are part of the IoT/M2M world have a vital need to communicate — it is their very essence. But they have some economic constraints, in terms of financial costs and energy consumption. Faced with these constraints, not all…

Recent headlines like “Facebook and Cambridge Analytica: What You Need to Know as Fallout Widens” and “Far more than 87m Facebook users had data compromised, MPs told” have people in a panic. Some are accessing their own metadata, shocked to learn…

For several years now, the Internet of Things (IoT) has been the talk of the technological town. The promise of connecting millions of devices, from toasters to automobiles, seems to be on the brink of materializing, as experts tout the advantages…

Machine Learning, or automatic learning, is a buzzword that rhymes with science-fiction for an entire generation of us who still remember Hal, of 2001: A Space Odyssey, the computer blessed with a superior intelligence and consciousness that were…

Everyone has heard of the Internet of Things (“IoT”); it certainly is one of the most significant technological “trends” of the last few years. So significant, in fact, that its scale defies understanding: in 2016, the number of objects connected to…

Dads, you too can enjoy that warm trickling feeling of a hot shower once again without rising at the crack of dawn. Necessity is the mother of invention, and in my house, with two teenage daughters, I had to end the curse of cold morning showers by…

We already had security-based concerns about the rampant ubiquity of new gadgets enthusiastically developed by connected object developers with the best of intentions and scant awareness of software vulnerability issues. Recent events have…