Applied AI Weekly News

Justin Grammens

Greetings everyone! Another awesome week was had on the topics of the Internet of Things. This week I cover activity on business and investment, fun new technology on energy harvesting from radio waves, a video with show-and-tell of cool projects and a really good story at the end of this issue on designing for the Internet of Things. But first, be sure and watch the opening keynote from IoT Fuse:Conference 2016 as our lead story.

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News

Opening IoT Fuse Keynote – The World is Not a Desktop

If you didn't catch it in person or the live stream of the IoT Fuse conference keynotes, you are in luck! We recorded them both. I'll be sharing the morning keynote in this issue and the afternoon keynote and panel in the next issue. Enjoy!

Samsung's Artik Is the Perfect Example of Why IoT Is Confusing

I don't agree with some of what the author states regarding confusion, however with Samsung being a player both in the hardware and now the cloud based IoT platform market, they are in a very interesting position to own the entire ecosystem. Very similar what Apple has done in the consumer space. Is Samsung setting up to own the IoT ecosystem?

This Tiny Computer Has No Battery, Powered Wirelessly from Radio Waves

Wow! I find this technology extremely fascinating and major game changer as it's developed further. Being able to extract a small amount of energy of out thin air will allow some really cool new and exciting solutions to be developed.

Sponsor

AdaFruit Industries

Adafruit designs and manufactures electronics products, components, tools, and accessories and produces a number of learning resources, including written tutorials, introductory videos for children.

Business

Nokia Corporation Makes a $193 Million Bet On the Internet of Things

Lots of activity these past few weeks on investment into technology around the IoT. Here's an example of another one. This one is specifically in the wearables category.

Are You Ready To Integrate IoT And VR?

I thought this article was interesting as it showed some different solutions of how retailers should be thinking about using the IoT to help their customers with new and different shopping experiences.

Cypress to acquire Broadcom's IoT business for $550 million

The acquisitions are heating up now in 2016 as players are snapping up others to help them fill out their portfolio as more and more Internet of Things products are going be developed in the coming years.

SAM Labs Raises $4.5M to Turn Kids into IoT-Mavens

Great article on SAM Labs and the work that they are doing to create some exciting tools and software to help kids get involved with IoT programming projects.

Helium Raises $20 Million for Smart Industrial Sensors

Good article on the investment dollars that are coming in for development and sensors for IoT. It's going to be sensors as the starting point for deployment of new IoT solutions. You can't measure, what you can't sense.

Healthcare

Testing Medical Device Integration in the IoT

Good article covering many of the key points the health care industry will need to handle and the challenges to overcome as more connected medical devices come online.

Video

Watch SHOW-AND-TELL Google+ LIVE Hangout!

Really cool live show-and-tell hosted by Lady Ada from Adafruit showing off some of the cool projects people have been building with open hardware.

Design

The Internet of Things Needs Design, Not Just Technology

I enjoyed this article as it outlines a well rounded strategy on how one should be thinking about both designing and developing IoT solutions. Well worth the time to read.