Applied AI Weekly News

Justin Grammens

Welcome IoT Weekly News readers! This week had a number of interesting articles pop up. Everything from Blackberry looking to make a turnaround using it's technology to Chick-Fil-A using sensors to smart vending applications and everything in-between. Don't forget to checkout a number of interesting Kickstarter projects in the IoT space at the end of this issue as well.

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News

Recursive Awesome and Partners Create Lab 651, LLP

As the number of Internet of Things devices is projected to sky-rocket to more than 20 billion by 2020, there is a strong desire by companies looking to capitalize on this market and find reliable partners who can build and deliver smart connected devices. Lab 651 has been formed between Mechanical, Electrical and Software Engineering disciplines to address this need.

BlackBerry's Radar, Internet of Things Meets Trucking System, Critical to Turnaround

I've been watching Blackberry for a number of years and their development of QNX and thinking just when they might put that technology ot good use. It looks like they are now making some in-roads. The company is down, but certainly not out and has a lot of time to make a significant turnaround.

Chick-Fil-A Stays Cool (and Safe) with IoT Sensors

I've done a lot of work in my career with companies to build food safety products. With the advancement of technology and the Internet of Things, it makes a lot of sense for any company producing a product that is a consumable to think about bringing in connected devices to their facility. This article covers those aspects with Chik-Fil-A.

Qualcomm Wants to Bring LTE to More IoT Devices

If you are hardware geek you'll like this article. It's all about some of the new chipsets that Qualcomm is working on to give LTE connectivity to battery powered sensor devices.

Sponsor

IoT Fuse Hosts Conferences, Hackdays and Monthly Meetups!

IoT Fuse unites accomplished doers, makers and hackers with the brightest executives, investors, entrepreneurs through a yearly conference, hackathons, meetups and more. Join us at an upcoming event!

Business

The Internet of Things: Enabling Intelligent Solar Assets

This is a cool article as it's all about how the IoT is going to help the solar industry be able to leverage and build better solutions around assets in the field. They have defined a new term called PV IoT.

How Smart Vending Illustrates the IoT

This article focuses a lot around Intel's Smart Vending solution and the solutions that they offer in this space. Having worked with C-Secure, I will say that there's a number of other options in the space of vending where I think smaller players have an advantage to be nimble and quick to respond.

Big Data

3 Steps to Profit With Shared Data Experiences

This article touches on a number of the value propositions of using data and specifically data from multiple sources to build one live data stream that is stronger than the sum of its parts.

How the IoT Makes Us Consider Edge Processing

In the future, we'll be looking for smarter edge devices to help us catalog only the most pertinent pieces of data. As the cost for hardware is coming down and the size of computing is getting smaller, things are only going to get both smarter, smaller and faster.

IoT Decision Making Improved with Impact-Sourced Human Experts

This article made a lot of sense to me. I'm currently working with a client right now where we are using Mechanical Turk to bring in workers to help us define and structure data that is currently unstructured data. Whomever can learn and make sense of the data coming off these devices will be the market leaders in the future.

HP's IoT Strategy: Servers, Security, and Vertica

HP has strived to become a relevant player in a number of new technologies. The personal desktop was just a small piece of what the entire company has been doing for decades. This article is about a new product called Vertica that they have developed to work with many of the leading open source data streaming and analytics tools.

Crowd Funding

KnittBar - The Internet of Things (IoT) Power Solution by Knitt Labs

KnittBar is the world’s most amazing versatile smart power bar. It will give you a new way to look at electricity and how to use your appliances and electronics in a better way; a smart way.

Save $400 per Year While Reducing Your Water Usage by 60% by Aiga

The world’s 1st IoT shower device; It's modern, easily installed, fits any shower, & reduces your water usage while saving you money!