Applied AI Weekly News

Justin Grammens

Welcome IoT Weekly News Readers!

Lots of great stories and coverage happening this week on the Internet of Things. I had the pleasure of presenting the topic of IoT to the American Association of University Women! It was an amazing event that I was blessed to have been a part of and sharing my experience in the industry.

Additionally, a reminder that Lab 651 will be doing a workshop on Machine Learning and Data Classification at IoT Fuse this year. There's limited tickets left for our workshop so be sure and register today!

Please enjoy the issue this week definitely checkout The Premier Connected Home Conference, May 22-24 in San Francisco and hosted by our friends at Parks Associates.

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News

Armored Things Is Looking to Improve Emergency Response Using the Internet of Things

The company is currently funded mainly by bootstrap funding, but is in the midst of its first institution fundraiser. With university pilots on the horizon, Johnson said they’ve been in contact with potential institutions who are interested in putting the technology in their own venues when it becomes available.

Apple Gets It Just Right - From the Internet of Things to the Internet of Life

You see, our devices—call them what you may—are extremely personal and now can help make us smarter and perhaps even help make us more healthy. It's less a thing and more a vital component to life.

Google to Acquire Xively IoT Platform From LogMeIn for $50M

"This acquisition, subject to closing conditions, will complement Google Cloud’s effort to provide a fully managed IoT service that easily and securely connects, manages and ingests data from globally dispersed devices," Antony Passemard from Google wrote in the blog post.

Why the Internet of Things Is Taking the World by Storm

We know that IOT is undertaking the world by storm. This article talks further in details about how it is impacting our daily lives. The IOT will connect people to cities, patients to health services and will help in bringing real time consumer behavior closer to companies.

Sponsor

Expanding Smart Home Solutions: Attend CONNECTIONS in May

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For 22 years, CONNECTIONS™ has been on the cutting edge with industry insights, consumer data, and trends in the connected living space. The 22nd-annual conference highlights the expansion of smart home solutions in the home and new business strategies that enhance the consumer experience with connected solutions.

Business

Oil and Gas Companies Increasingly Invest in Clean Tech, Analytics and the IoT

Corporate venture investments by oil and gas companies hit record highs in 2016 and 2017, after a slight dip following the 2014 crash in oil prices. These investments have been concentrated in clean tech companies and technologies with the potential to improve operations.

How the Internet of Things Could Fracture Wi-Fi

Wi-Fi is the invisible workhorse of modern life. But Wi-Fi is struggling. And the next phase of the Internet, the so called "Internet of Things", could break it.

Manufacturing Technology Trends That Will Change Your Life

As technology continues to make leaps and bounds in all areas of business, manufacturing is also benefiting from technological improvements. And though it may not initially seem this way, these technological improvements have the potential to transform your life.

Google Cloud, FogHorn Partner to Boost the Industrial Internet of Things

By bringing FogHorn to the mix, the data collected can now be spread to the edge of IoT networks, improving visibility into the factory floor, supply chains, and industrial operations.