Las modas vienen, van, y muchas veces se repiten. En ULMA Conveyor Components S.Coop. (UCC) nos mojó la del “embedding”, o el arte de meter electrónica en los lugares más insospechados.
UCC fabrica y comercializa componentes para cintas transportadoras. Un mercado donde confluyen competidores locales y transnacionales, y en donde nuestro principal producto, el rodillo, es considerado una commodity.
Thanks to the Internet of Things (IoT), physical assets are turning into participants in real-time global digital markets. The countless types of assets around us will become as easily indexed, searched and traded as any online commodity. While some industries will be tougher to transform than others – those with physical limitations, such as manufacturing, will be harder to digitize – untold economic opportunities exist for growth and advancement. Our research shows this will create a new “Economy of Things” with significant consequences.
After five months of toiling 14-hour days, making a hardware IoT product from scratch and spending thousands of dollars of Other People’s Money, I and my two cofounders woke up with a jolt.
It suddenly dawned to us that our product would not sell. And unless we did something about it, the startup was doomed. This was December 2014.
Dreamy-eyed noobs that we were, we made tons of mistakes. I hope this post helps you avoid some of those mistakes because as much as we glorify failure in the startup world, it does hurt. A lot.
In a grand ceremony that attracted France’s economic minister, Sigfox announced today that it signed a major partnership with Samsung that could add significant momentum to its Internet of Things platform.
In addition, Samsung also said it was investing an undisclosed sum in Sigfox. The deal comes just a few months after Sigfox raised $115 million, the largest round of venture capital in the history of France.
Renesas Electronics is launching a platform to accelerate the development of low-cost Internet of Things applications.
The Renesas Synergy platform is one more example of a big electronics company — in this case, a Japanese chip maker — creating its own platform that enables hardware, software, and services that deliver the Internet of Things (IoT), which makes everyday objects smarter and connected to the Internet. In this crowded market, rivals include everyone from Intel to Qualcomm. They’re all chasing an expected $1.7 trillion IoT market by 2020, according to market researcher IDC.
Europe's electricity sector needs to open up to the Internet of Things, where objects are connected to each other via the World Wide Web, policymakers told a Berlin industry event on Tuesday (2 June).
“We know the development of electricity production and distribution schemes and our electricity grid, including smart meters and smart grids, will closely correspond to the further development of the Internet," said Peter Altmaier, the chief of staff of German Chancellor Angela Merkel and a former environment minister.
Qualcomm announced the addition of two new flagship Internet of Things Wi-Fi chips at a press event in San Francisco today. The QCA401x Wi-Fi chip will power end-point devices like light bulbs and home surveillance cameras. The QCA4531 Wi-Fi chip will power hub devices like media servers.
Qualcomm said the QCA401x is designed to answer manufacturer demand for increased computing, memory, and advanced features while lowering size, cost, and power consumption.
The day before the start of the Internet of Things World conference in San Francisco, Mode is unveiling its cloud-based IoT platform and announcing a new $775,000 seed funding round.
Mode says it serves as a virtual backend team for IoT companies. Through the cloud platform, it handles all backend services, such as user and device management and secure real-time access control.
Mode says its platform provides an intuitive cloud application programming interface (API) for devices, mobile clients, and application servers. IoT developers can utilize Mode as the backend infrastructure throughout the development cycle, from prototyping to product launch.
Organizations, both private and public, must prepare now to operate in the incomprehensibly immense Internet of Things (IoT) that lies ahead. As the IoT keeps scaling over the next decade, decentralized networks have the potential to reduce infrastructure and maintenance costs to manufacturers. Decentralization also promises increased robustness by removing single points of failure that could exist in traditional centralized networks. By shifting the power in the network from the center to the edges, devices gain greater autonomy, and can become points of transaction and economic value creation for owners and users.
