The internet of things has been a buzzword for a few years recently but it has become one of those things that everyone likes to include everything. Most companies can see the potential but don’t know where to begin. We mention a few points here that can potentially be low-hanging fruits when considering an IoT […]
The internet of things has witnessed 204% growth YOY over 2014 in the manufacturing sector. Companies that have implemented the solution have reported an improvement in key metrics. This means that it has grown faster in manufacturing than any other industry. The IoT for manufacturing solution is a bundle of technologies that consists of the […]
Source: http://www.verizonenterprise.com/resources/reports/rp_state-of-market-the-market-the-internet-of-things-2015_en_xg.pdf
My search for the cheapest controller for IoT sensor data collection led me to investigate the Arduino family. Since I came from a Microsoft background, I had investigated the Raspberry Pi and Intel Galileo, both tipped to run the new version of Windows. You can run Linux on each of these right now which gives a […]
I recently got a hold of Texas Instrument’s sensor tag. This is a combination sensor containing: pressure temperature humidity accelerometer gyroscope magnetometer The WIKIPedia page highlights some interesting uses for the tag. It doesn’t look very useful for industrial applications – appears to be geared towards the Mobile development community targeting personal applications. Other interesting […]
The internet of things claims to connect “things” to the internet. When envisioning projects, an understanding of the sensors available and the price range for sensors serve as starting points. We wanted to break things down and figure out what broad category of sensors are available. We’ve broken things down to the sensor level. You will also […]
This nicely sums up Microsoft’s view of the internet of things.