What are iBeacons?
Editor’s note: This is the first post in a series looking at beacon technology and the burgeoning beacon ecosystem. Apple galvanized the whole area of proximity-enabled applications and services when...
View ArticleA new dawn of car tech: customization through software, not hardware
BMW’s Vision ConnectedDrive concept car. Image: BMW.Throughout much of early-to-mid 20th century, cutting-edge design and technology found its way into cars. Following the invention of the integrated...
View ArticleThe challenge of connecting anything to the Internet
Subscribe to the O’Reilly Solid podcast to stay on top of topics related to the Internet of Things, hardware, software, manufacturing, and the blurring of the physical and virtual worlds. A few weeks...
View ArticleGoogle’s Physical Web vs Apple’s iBeacon
Editor’s note: This is the second post in a series looking at beacon technology and the burgeoning beacon ecosystem. In the first of this series, I covered some of the basics behind proximity,...
View ArticleWhat today’s fitness technology means for tomorrow’s office
Contributing Author: Claire Niech Attend O’Reilly’s Solid Conference, June 23–25, in San Francisco. Solid is our conference exploring how the collision of software and hardware is fueling the creation...
View ArticleWhy the Internet of Things isn’t the same as the new hardware movement
The Internet of Things (IoT) has been committing a lot of buzzword imperialism lately. It’s a hot term, marching across the technological countryside and looking for rich disciplines to capture....
View ArticleBeacosystem evolution, hurdles, and resources
In this post, the third of our series, I’ll look at some of the issues in using and deploying beacon-based solutions, some of the trends in both hardware and software offerings, and share some...
View ArticleMining the value of the IoT
Jon Bruner and Dr. Michael Chui recently discussed Chui’s latest research on the Internet of Things as part of our IoT Profiles Series. A full recording of their conversation is embedded at the end of...
View ArticleThe smartest way to program smart things: Node.js
Node.js is on the rise for programming hardware. The full Google V8 version helps run Intel’s Edison chip. The IoT community has already embraced Node.js for embedded devices and robotics, with...
View ArticleSignals from the O’Reilly 2015 Solid Conference
Practitioners, entrepreneurs, academics, and analysts came together in San Francisco this week to discuss the Internet of Things and the new hardware movement at the O’Reilly 2015 Solid Conference....
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