Applied AI Weekly News

Justin Grammens

Welcome IoT Weekly News Readers!

I took a break on publishing over the 4th of July holiday, but am back this week with an issue packed full of the latest and greatest articles on the Internet of Things. Our company, Lab 651 has been doing more work recently with clients in the areas of Big Data, AI and Bitcoin, so I have included few additional articles this week on those technologies and how they relate to the IoT.

Finally, I'm very happy to have been chosen along with my Co-Founder, Rod Landers to speak at the Inventors Network of MN event this month on How To Add The Power of The Internet of Things To Your Inventions. We look forward to seeing you there!

I hope you enjoy this issue and remember to follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook

News

What is IoT?

The Internet of Things, at its simplest level, is smart devices - from refrigerators that warn you when you’re out of milk to industrial sensors – that are connected to the Internet so they can share data, but IoT is far from a simple challenge for IT departments.

Semiconductor Engineering and IoT Myth Busting

The Internet of Things (IoT) means many things to a large number of people, but one thing is clear—every discussion involving the IoT invariably includes some rather dramatic growth predictions for how many connected devices will be sold and who will be the primary beneficiaries.

IoT In The USA: 3,000 Companies, $125B In Funding, $613B In Valuation, 342,000 Employees

An IoT-focused publication and accelerator just released their inaugural IoT Revolution handbook, and the numbers are very, very significant. 2,748 companies in the U.S. alone, plus another 140 in Canada, make the IoT scene in North America.

Alexa, Cortana, and Siri Aren't Novelties Anymore. They're Our Terrifyingly Convenient Future.

Like card catalogs and AOL-style portals before it, Web search will begin to fade from prominence, and with it the dominance of browsers and search engines. Mobile apps as we know them—icons on a home screen that you tap to open—will start to do the same.

Sponsor

Lab 651

Lab 651 connects the physical world to the digital universe. We have teams of Product Designers, Embedded Systems and Mobile and Data Science Engineers ready to help build your connected product! Come check us out, meet our teams and take a tour of our lab to learn what smart, connected ( IoT ) products we can build for you!

Security

A Secure Model of IoT with Blockchain

The Internet of Things (IoT) is an ecosystem of ever-increasing complexity; it’s the next wave of innovation that will humanize every object in our life, and it is the next level of automation for every object we use.

The Fight to Defend the Internet of Things

The Internet has entered a new chapter called the Internet of Things (IoT). It follows the fixed-Internet era characterized by connected PCs and laptops through the 1990s, and builds on the mobile-Internet era spearheaded by the proliferation of smartphones during the first two decades of this century.

Business

How to Invest in the Internet of Things

Following the links you'll find sprinkled over this article should help you take the next step, and you'll soon be investing in the Internet of Things.

Fraud and the Internet of Things

During the past few years, the Internet of Things (IoT) has become one of the hottest movements of our time. Although many technology trends and buzzwords come and go overnight, it’s clear that the IoT is here to stay.

The Internet of Things for Banks: It's Here, It's Real, and It's Set to Grow Exponentially

Until recently, only devices such as computers, tablets and phones were able to connect to the internet. But now there are approximately 8 billion 'network aware' machines globally that are internet enabled and can communicate and interact with other machines, creating the Internet of Things (IoT).

Harnessing the Power of Blockchain to Transform Marketing and Communications

“Blockchain and the IoT create an interesting dynamic,” says Justin Grammens, co-founding partner of Lab 651 a Software, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering firm that works with a range of companies, from start-ups to Fortune 100 corporations, to develop IoT products and applications.

73% Are Using Internet Of Things Data To Improve Their Business

The title as written and many other insights are from the recently published Cisco Internet of Things (IoT) study.

Big Data

Data Science Case Study: Classification in IoT Towards Data Science

We are going to study the Daily Sports and Activities data set from the UCI Machine Learning Repository. The goal of this work is to train a classifier to predict which activities users are engaging in based on sensor data collected from devices attached to all four limbs and the torso. This will be accomplished by cleverly feature engineering the sensor data and training machine learning classifiers.

Elon Musk - OpenAI Is Teaching Robots How to Learn Just Like Humans Do

OpenAI, the San Francisco-based nonprofit research lab backed by Elon Musk, today announced a research milestone on its robotics work.

Predictive Analytics - Ramping Up IoT Value

Predictive analytics is at the heart of getting the best payback from IoT. Connecting devices and adding a few sensors or meters will quickly generate more information than your staff can handle.

Industrial

Industrial IoT Is the Most Important Tech Scene You Haven't Heard Of

Artificial Intelligence, the technology Hollywood predicts might be the death of us all - has been around for ages. Recently, although the hype around AI has continued to build, it hasn’t been matched by real-world rollouts. The same happened after the initial buzz caused by the Internet of Things (IoT), the yawns of once excited investors grew ever more audible as pundits across the web started considering that the fad was coming to an end. However, this couldn’t be more wrong...