Applied AI Weekly News

Justin Grammens

Welcome to another issue of IoT Weekly News!

I've picked a number of articles this week covering a wide area of the Internet of Things. I noticed that the most popular article last week was a report from McKinsey on Unlocking the Potential of the Internet of Things. I've therefore decided to start this issue with a really cool executive summary from IBM on Saving the Future of the Internet of Things. If you are into in-depth analysis and reports, then the first article below is the one for you.

I've also chosen a number of other news articles from drone hardware, security perspectives, IoT funding, DIY and of course a fun Kickstarter project is included as well!

Hope you enjoy this issue and please remember to tweet it to your followers and follow us on Twitter!

News

Device Democracy : Saving the Future of the Internet of Things

Great high level executive report from the IBM Institute for Business Value on how businesses are transforming as the Internet of Things expands.

A Moment of IoT Silence Before We Disrupt

Good perspective from Don Dignee after attending a SEMI Arizona Chapter breakfast meeting in which leaders from Semico, Freescale and Impact Lab gave unique and down to earth perspective on where the "IoT market" is and is not today.

NVIDIA Jetson TX1 Brings Supercomputer Performance To Autonomous Drones

I've written about it before, but I feel that Drone deployments are the "most mis-understood segment of the IoT". Drones are infinitely capable of doing so much more than they are being used for today. I'm excited to see NVIDIA taking development of hardware for them seriously.

Security

Security: An Existential Threat to the Internet of Things

This is an interesting Q&A with James Kirkland, chief architect IoT at Red Hat, talks IoT barriers, security and possible regulation in the evolving smart world.

Building Security in the Internet of Things

This is a pretty cool summary of the basics of what the IoT is and how security plays into the devices and giving people a sense of security as they are using more smart connected devices.

Internet of Things: Privacy & Security in a Connected World

An FTC staff report from January 2015. This is filled with a lot of federal law enforcement, security and regulations, but I did find the first few pages interesting about how they describe the Internet of Things and its history.

Business

Funding to IoT Startups Has More Than Doubled In Six Years

Good set of charts here from CB Insights on the trend of funding that IoT companies have been able to achieve in recent years.

Internet of Things Security Issues Require a Rethink on Risk Management

The conclusion from this article is that, "The Internet of Things is here to stay, and it holds tremendous potential for delivering better business performance and an improved quality of life for the average consumer." Do you agree with this?

Big Data

Exosite: Actionable Business Insights through Big Data Analytics

Good coverage of an interview with Hans Rempel, CEO of Exosite on how the effective usage of the data that we are capturing from these devices is rare at best. His company is trying to change that.

DIY

Optimizing Crop Yield With IoT

For a recent hackathon, a group of strangers (now friends!) created Crop Squares — a system designed to optimize crop yield by better tracking weather and soil conditions.

Crowd Funding

MATRIX - The Internet of Things for Everyone

The World's First Smart Home App Ecosystem (3 killer apps included) + revolutionary platform connecting the physical and online worlds.