Applied AI Weekly News

Justin Grammens

Greetings! We had another awesome week covering all of the great things that are going on in IoT. I found an excellent primer on the technologies of the Internet of Things listed as the lead article below. Other articles of interest are work that Verizon is doing to build out clusters, social robots and the IoT as the third wave of the Internet. A great mix of articles in this issue.

Finally, be sure to checkout IoTHackDay in the events section. To be held on October 17th, IoTHackDay is a fun, free day that brings together teams, novel ideas, and an entrepreneurial spirit to dream up and build cool new devices to solve every day problems.

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News

A Primer on Technologies Building the Internet of Things

This is one of the best primers on the Internet of Things I have seen. It covers everything that you need to know in this sector of technology from sensors, networks, wireless technologies, standards, adoption, cloud, big data and analytics. Regardless of your expertise, you will get something out of reading it.

Microlocation in IoT Can Save Time, Money & Lives

There have been a number of "startup accelerators" focused on helping entrepreneurs working to bring their product ideas or prototype to market. This article shows why these are becoming increasingly popular.

Microsoft Drops a Slimmed down Windows 10 for the Internet of Things

Microsoft released version of its Windows software that runs on an ARM processor and designed to run on Raspberry Pi 2 boards and Arduinos. Time will tell if this is worth much and might be too little too late as there is already a strong user base on ATMEL and running Linux. For the time being it's good to see coverage of Arduino and new options when building IoT solutions.

Self-Driving Cars Compete With The IoT For The Title Of Most Hyped Technology; Big Data Out

From the article, "Big Data was dethroned by the Internet of Things last year (but it was still estimated to be five to ten years from the Plateau of Productivity), only to completely disappear from Gartner’s hype radar this year. Big data is out. So what’s in?"

Datafloq - 4 Challenges for the Internet of Things for it to Be a Success

An interesting take on some of the hurdles we are seeing as obstacles to adoption for the the Internet of Things.

Sponsor

Particle

Particle offers a suite of hardware and software tools to help you prototype, scale, and manage your Internet of Things products.

Big Data

Internet of Things: Where Does the Data Go?

IoT is all about the data. This is a great article from the Chief Evangelist of Apache Cassandra on sending, storing and analyzing the data of the IoT.

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Industrial

Verizon Puts 50,000 Docker Containers to Work on a Massive IoT Cluster

Wow! Verizon demonstrated 50,000 Docker containers launched in 100 seconds, on a Verizon cluster powered by the Mesosphere Datacenter Operating System (DCOS). Verizon is positioning themselves as the go-to provider for the explosion of IoT devices in the coming years.

Consumer

Social Robots - The Most Promising Area Of Robotics

While not the complexity of the robots I've seen when binge watching the TV series HUMANS, the idea of social robots and interacting with them like they are part of your family in a social setting is an interesting thing to watch and think about. The future of these interactions are here today.

Wearables

Quanttus: Why Continuous Blood Pressure Monitoring Is a Game-Changer

An interesting piece of technology coming out of Quanttus, the stealthy Cambridge, Massachusetts-based startup that raised $19 million last year.

Wearable Tech Will Shift From Novelty To Norm In 5 Years

An article citing some good reasons around why wearables are only going to rise in use over the coming years.

Video

Our Thinking - the IoT as the Third Wave of the Internet

We think that companies’ ability to adapt and thrive in this new era of the Internet of Things is very likely to determine who the next set of winners and laggards will be in this new connected age. - Simona Jankowski

Development

123D Circuits

A fun and interesting way to use software to allow those to virtualize hardware development.

Events

IoTHackDay

IoTHackDay is a fun, free day that brings together teams, novel ideas, and an entrepreneurial spirit to dream up and build cool new devices to solve every day problems. Register today!