Applied AI Weekly News

Justin Grammens

Welcome! This weekly issue covers a wide range of articles published on the Internet of Things. As we are in Minneapolis/St. Paul, I particularly enjoyed the lead story below by Minnpost on why the Twin Cities is poised to be a leader in IoT going forward. I suggest checking it out.

We also cover a whole host of other categories: Business, Enterprise, Consumer, Development, Crowd Funding and Events. A little bit of news and information on IoT for everyone! Please tweet this article to your followers.

News

Why MSP Is the Once, Current and Future Internet of Things (IoT) Alley

Great article on some of the success stories going on in the Twin Cities around the IoT and why our city has history in this space and positioned to be a leader in the future.

Source: Courtesy of Playtabase

Internet of Things Examples

Some examples of smart devices coming to market or already here. Range from the useful to the completely not needed. I enjoy seeing all of the innovation people are trying in this market though!

The Grand Scheme of (the Internet of) Things

Short article on a lot the same concepts that I've been talking with people about - where the term IoT came from, where Amazon and IBM are speaking to the customer and that data really is the key to this whole system working.

ARM Dives into Low-Power IoT Communications

Energy consumption ( or lack there of ), is a huge part of the future of the IoT. If devices can't be powered for extended periods of time, much of the promises we are betting on to change the marketplace won't happen. ARM launches Cordio to drop power consumption and increase battery life by 60%.

Business

Surge in Real-Time Big Data and IoT Analytics Is Changing Corporate Thinking

This is so true. Coverage on how corporations are now, more than ever, are using analytics and real time data to do analytics and adjust their thinking.

Source: iStock

Data Center, IoT & NAND See Double Digit Growth

Desktop sales are dropping, but IoT and data centers are seeing double digit growth at Intel. Just another sign that we are moving into a world of more physical computing and large scale data analytics.

Enterprise

Translating the Internet of Things | Red Hat

I found it interesting that RedHat of all companies would be interested in talking about the IoT. I soon realized though that they (among many other Linux advocates) have an opportunity to plan a major role in all of the data processing and even possible endpoint strategy as the space evolves. This article discusses what they are doing with regards to Smart Energy and Smart Cities.

Consumer

Disrupting Honeywell: The Startups Unbundling Honeywell in the Smart Home

An article talking about Honeywell, but really could be any legacy company in the space of connected homes. There's been a huge influx of investment of smaller companies disrupting the market and causing the larger players to have to innovate. This is a good thing for everyone!

Wearables

Six Wearables To Enhance The Wearable Revolution In 2015

A few of the more unique wearables you might not have heard about or seen coming out this year.

Development

Gobot - Golang framework for robotics, physical computing, and the Internet of Things

If you are interested in the Go Programming Language and would like to use it to control things in the physical world, this is a really cool project!

First Flexible IoT-Supporting Beacon Needs No Battery Replacement

Very cool technology allowing beacons to be built and deployed with no batteries. Allowing it to run nearly indefinitely.

Crowd Funding

Bluz: A Cloud-Connected, Bluetooth LE Development Kit

The first ever Arduino-like, Spark powered, IPv6 enabled, IFTTT integrated, remote programmable, security first, IoT BLE dev kit.

jamstik+ The SmartGuitar by Zivix

A portable guitar that teaches you to play, sounds like any musical instrument and connects wirelessly so you can play guitar anywhere.

Events

LiveWorx 15. It’s On! May 4-7, 2015 in Boston, MA

The future of the Internet of Things is happening now. Make plans to attend LiveWorx 2015, the only conference to bring together hundreds of real-world success stories with the IoT.

Design Thinking Hands-On / Hackathon!

This event will engage participants in design thinking to develop real world solutions to energy efficiency in the workplace.