ISEA organiza, para el 25 de Enero a las 17:30, la charla “Experiencias en Logística conectada como acompañamiento en la transformación digital de fabricantes para su posicionamiento en la Industria 4.0.”
En esta ocasión, los ponentes serán los siguientes:
• Jon Murcia Lezama, en nombre de FAGOR ELECTRÓNICA S.Coop. Consultor especializado en Nuevos Modelos de negocio sobre IoT y Análisis de los datos, quien abordará las siguientes temáticas:
Resin.io, a startup with headquarters in Seattle and employees scattered across the globe, has raised a $9 million funding round to further its work on tools for software development and deployment for connected devices.
The company’s prior backer, DFJ, invested in the round, along with GE Ventures, Ericsson, and Aspect Ventures. Resin, founded in 2013, previously raised a $3 million seed round.
If you’ve ever seen the “check engine” light come on in your car and had the requisite repairs done in a timely way, you’ve benefited from an early-stage manifestation of what today is known as the Internet of Things (IoT). Something about your car’s operation—an action—triggered a sensor,1 which communicated the data to a monitoring device. The significance of these data was determined based on aggregated information and prior analysis. The light came on, which in turn triggered a trip to the garage and necessary repairs.
Believe it or not, there is now an Amazon Dash button that can integrate with AWS IoT, the managed services from cloud infrastructure provider Amazon Web Services (AWS).
“The AWS IoT Button is a programmable button based on the Amazon Dash Button hardware,” Amazon says in a description of the new product, which is available on Amazon for $19.95. “This simple Wi-Fi device is easy to configure and designed for developers to get started with AWS IoT, AWS Lambda, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon SNS, and many other Amazon Web Services without writing device-specific code.”
There’s no such thing as a free lunch or free energy, right? Not necessarily. Drayson Technologies, the London startup founded by Lord Paul Drayson, a very successful serial entrepreneur and former U.K. government science minister, is commercialising technology that harvests energy from radio frequency (RF) signals to potentially power a range of low-consumption devices.
These include products in the IoT space, including the company’s own proof-of-concept air pollution sensor, and even wearables that don’t require too much power.
Soracom, a Tokyo-based startup that provides a communication platform for developers of connected devices, announced today that it has raised a 2.4 billion yen (about $22 million) Series B from World Innovation Lab, Infinity Venture Partners, and other investors. The money will be used to enter the United States and other markets.
Soracom is a MVNO (mobile virtual network operator), which means it doesn’t operate its own network infrastructure, but instead has a partnership with NTT Docomo, one of Japan’s largest telecoms, for its 3G and LTE.
Microsoft today announced that it has acquired Solair, a company that provides software companies can use to work with all of their Internet-connected devices. The software can run as a cloud service or on companies’ infrastructure. Solair also offers a hardware gateway that companies can use on their premises to interface between their devices and the cloud.
The IoT’s true value lies in its disruptive potential for reimagining business processes and, ultimately, rewiring business, government, and society. Realizing that potential means shifting IoT applications’ strategic focus toward not just sensing, but doing.
