General IoT

With IoT related M&A deals surpassing $20B in 2015 and startup funding reaching the $1B mark, the Internet of Things reached new records of financial activity and convinced yet the biggest critic that it has become a tech sector on its own. The 10 most relevant news in IoT 2015 These are the announcements, deals, and stories that shaped the IoT 2015 year. 1. Biggest overall announcement:...

PLEASE NOTE: There is a more recent 2020 ranking of Top IoT Applications which can be found HERE Needless to say that the current hype around the Internet of Things (IoT) is huge. It seems like every day a new company announces some IoT enabled product. And with it some (biased) prediction of where the market is going. Instead of making yet another biased prediction, we measured what the really...

Summary The Internet of Things definition: “Sensors and actuators embedded in physical objects are linked through wired and wireless networks”There are a number of similar concepts but Internet of Things is by far the most popular term to describe this phenomenonThe term Internet of Things was invented in 1999, initially to promote RFID technologyThe popularity of the term IoT did not accelerate...

Where is my chocolate? “You did not!” my mom screamed at me. “Well, Mom, it wasn’t my fault…”, I tried to explain. It was my fault and we both knew it. I was 14 years old and I had eaten the chocolate bar that Mom had bought specifically as an ingredient for the Chocolate cake she was about to bake for grandpa’s 70th birthday the next day. Do you remember a similar situation from your childhood?...