How Bigbelly Evolved from a Waste-Management Firm to an IoT Company
The fast-growing business hopes to leverage a piece of vital urban infrastructure—the public waste bin—into a tool for deploying smart-city applications.
Spreo Beacons the Way at Mall, Hospital
A Florida shopping mall and an Israeli medical center are both employing the company’s beacon solution to help people navigate their way.
B&B Electronics Seeks to Stake Its Industrial IoT Market Position With New Name, Partnership Network
The hardware company, now called B+B SmartWorx, has announced a large network of ecosystem partners that provide network and managed services.
Gilbane Tests Out RFID System to Document Workers’ Hours
The construction company is using the technology to record who enters and leaves a 1-million-square-foot building site.
‘RFID Buzz’ Is a Double-Edged Sword
Hospitals need to curtail their excitement about the technology’s benefits and cure one problem at a time.
Observations from NRF’s Big Show, Part 2
RFID solution providers showed off some “secondary” retail applications.
Bluetooth Beacons Bring Services, Info to SeaWorld, LA Zoo Visitors
Both organizations are trialing a solution from The Experience Engine to deliver content to phone users as they walk through the parks, visit exhibits, or pass restaurants and gift shops.
Bluetooth Beacons Bring Services, Info to SeaWorld, LA Zoo Visitors
Both organizations are trialing a solution from The Experience Engine to deliver content to phone users as they walk through the parks, visit exhibits, or pass restaurants and gift shops.
IoT News Roundup
Open Interconnect Consortium releases IoTivity platform; new sensor platforms for developers, do-it-yourselfers; U.S. Congress launching an IoT Caucus; Google shuttering consumer Google Glass product; Kontact.io shipping Cloud Beacon.
As the Internet of Things Grows, Is Privacy Possible?
The Internet of Things will instrument our world and, in doing so, simplify many aspects of our lives. Yet, the flip-side of gaining so much data about our physical world is the risk of being able to correlate events and data-points in a way that harms consumer privacy.