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We first celebrated Internet of Things Day in 2013 when we monitored the temperature of our IoT Day beers using proprietary IoT hardware and software that we largely created ourselves. Yesterday, on “IoT Day Eve 2024” the world witnessed a…
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Internet of Toilets
The Internet and the sharing economy have democratised access to mobility, accommodations, and even everyday objects and commodities. So why is that by 2012, a person on-the-go could already hail their “own private driver” in minutes, yet in 2024 the…
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The Web turns 35!
The World Wide Web turns 35 years old today, March 12th 2024, and its inventor, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, expressed in an open letter the exacerbation of his concerns since the Web’s 30th anniversary, which we blogged about five years ago…
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World’s Best Cockroach?
Is reelyActive now the billion-dollar startup that some anticipated exactly ten years ago today? On November 8th, 2013, our three-minute pitch won us the title “World’s Best Startup“, and a sizeable trophy, at the finals of the global Startup World…
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RFID Journal Live 2023
From the standpoint of both applications and economics, Bluetooth Low Energy and RAIN RFID technologies are rapidly converging. In short, that’s our key takeaway from the RFID Journal Live 2023 exhibition floor in Orlando last week. Bluetooth Low Energy and…
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A brief history of Ambient IoT
The recently released 2023 Bluetooth Market Update includes as a “Driver for Tomorrow” what the SIG calls Ambient IoT. To celebrate IoT Day (today, April 9th), we thought it would be fitting to reflect on how the concept of ambience…
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ChatIoT
In these times of growing uncertainty, there is one thing that is nonetheless certain: chatbots based on large language models (LLMs) can do no wrong. Over the past few months, this type of artificial intelligence (AI) has demonstrated to the…
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Infrastructure 4.0
This week HPE Aruba Networking announced, in this press release, their collaboration with Microsoft and ourselves, reelyActive, to facilitate migrating IoT workloads to the cloud. And while that announcement may be modestly titled, the implication for infrastructure interoperability in the…
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2023: Year of interoperability?
One of our first major client successes of 2023 involves writing temperature sensor data to a database. Ummm, okay? Whether you’re familiar with the state of the art of technology or not, you’re probably questioning why something as basic as…
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IoT and the coming recession
With all signs now pointing clearly towards an impending recession, should we be worried about the project of a global Internet of Things? In a word, YES. First, let’s take account of the global situation halfway through 2022: we’ve collectively…