Not too long ago, I wrote a blog to explain the basics of the Internet of Things (IoT). Now I’m back to write about a particularly fascinating subject: IoT and how it is transforming our homes, right in front of us! When I began to explore the areas where IoT can create a “smart home,”…
It’s not every day that one of L-Tron’s technology partners is featured in the mainstream media, but Zebra Technologies’ April 2014 announcement of its proposal to acquire Motorola Solutions’ Enterprise division was big, mainstream news. Motorola’s Enterprise business focuses on mobile computing, communications and data-capture technologies, while Zebra is best known for its barcode-printing, asset-tracking…
I wrote recently of Zebra Technologies’ sponsorship of the 2014 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference at Boston’s Hynes Convention Center, specifically noting the participation of Jill Stelfox, Zebra Vice President and General Manager of its Location Solutions division, in the panel discussion, Big Data: Lessons for Sports. Stelfox was also on hand at Zebra’s SSAC14 exhibit…
In its infancy, the Internet provided most users a new means of human-to-human communication. If I visited your company’s website, it was to see and read graphical and textual information about your company and its products, and to identify an email address or phone number by which to contact you. Next came e-commerce, or human-to-machine…
I wrote recently about the consumer-IoT’s “basket of remotes” problem, the realization that the growing divergence of a “hodge-podge of ad hoc solutions managed through fragmented systems” risks needlessly complicating consumer’s already busy lives. Fortunately, industrial and commercial sources such as Advantech are already well ahead of their consumer counterparts in delivering comprehensive integrated IoT…
Searching Google for “Internet of Things” produces 2,090,000,000 results. The Internet is a very big place, but 2.09-billion results is a lot, even from a pool as large as the Internet. By comparison, “Justin Bieber” yields only 793-million results and “Cloud Computing” just 567-million. Yet for many among us, IoT remains a frustratingly vague concept…
It’s hard to master big concepts like Cloud Computing with head down and full focus on the nuts-and-bolts components upon which such grand-but-figurative infrastructures depend. I’m a literal sort working with literal components for whom thoughts of figurative infrastructures can be distracting. The Cloud, Big Data, The Internet of Things? Huge, empowering concepts, no doubt,…
When you’re the largest retailer on the planet, you have the power to direct positive change that benefits entire industries. Such was the case in 2003 when Wal-Mart announced what would eventually become known simply as “the mandate,” a requirement that, by 2006, its major suppliers equip all cases or pallets of products with smart…
We know Zebra Technologies best as the industry leader in barcode-printing and RFID technology, as its identification and tracking solutions have been deployed in a surprising range of applications. Still, some applications are just more exciting than others, especially when they impact enterprises about which we’re as rabidly fanatical as football, basketball, baseball, soccer and…
The wisdom of The Internet of Things strategy has, perhaps, been best demonstrated in my personal life by the fact that I now accept being tracked via my smartphone. For me, the benefits greatly outweigh any nebulous privacy concerns. The smartphone that is now my constant companion serves also as my personal radio-frequency identification chip,…
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