Forms have fields. Enter data into a field and the form’s database recognizes it, interprets it, and places it into the proper position. But databases are programs and as such are limited to recognizing what the programmer tells it to recognize. If the form is looking for alpha characters and you enter a number, it […]
Smart Homes: Bridging the AI Gap
Smart homes can start from the planning stage of a new build or they can be renovations of existing homes. Add a few controls, use a voice app, and Bingo, you have a basic Smart Home. But true integration and interoperability of IoT (Internet of Things) components requires more thought and planning than many realize. […]
A Window on Energy
Innovation comes at a price. Major foundations are willing to fund innovation when they see the value, regardless of the price or reward. Wells Fargo Foundation, for example, set up, with the U.S. DOE (U.S. Dept. of Energy) NREI (National Renewable Energy Laboratory), the Wells Fargo IN2 (Innovation Incubator) to fund and test renewable energy […]
The Air Is Filled with the Sound of –IoT?
Smart cities, smart houses, smart facilities, smart everything depend on the strength of the available communications networks. The IoT (Internet of Things) requires direct and indirect communications, device to device, device to central hub, device to monitoring equipment. The increasing deployment of cellular IoT modules in smart city infrastructure and building automation verticals is expected […]
Integrated and Interlocking
In the early days of desktop computers, “networking” meant Ethernet cables running, of lucky, in conduit—often through false ceilings—all throughout the office. The hub-and-spoke, client-server relationship between nodes on the network allowed minimum transfer of data between workstations. There was still need, in many offices, for “sneaker net” (carrying floppy disks between computers). Times change. […]
AI Meets IoT: What is the Artificial Intelligence of Things
What originally started as machine-to-machine communication limited almost exclusively to the telecom industry, the Internet of Things is now everywhere. According to Statista, the number of devices connected to the internet will exceed 38 billion by 2025. The figure is arguable though, for it is hard to draw the line as to what exactly an […]
Measuring Safety
The old adage that you can’t improve what you can’t measure has been used to explain why human behavior is often the hardest thing to change. Mechanical operations can be measured and ways to improve them found but how do you measure people’s activities? Perhaps there are ways. By converting actions into data streams and […]
Collaboration: Near, Far, and Future, Part I
Collaboration has many synonyms—association, combination, teamwork, alliance, joint effort, among others—but strangely, communications isn’t one of them. Strange because the main element of collaboration is indeed communication among individuals both near and far. Especially far, even in these dwindling days of COVID-19’s remote work and distancing, as remote work is giving way to hybrid work […]
Collaboration: Near, Far, and Future, Part I
Collaboration has many synonyms—association, combination, teamwork, alliance, joint effort, among others—but strangely, communications isn’t one of them. Strange because the main element of collaboration is indeed communication among individuals both near and far. Especially far, even in these dwindling days of COVID-19’s remote work and distancing, as remote work is giving way to hybrid work […]
Collaboration: Near, Far, and Future, Part I
Collaboration has many synonyms—association, combination, teamwork, alliance, joint effort, among others—but strangely, communications isn’t one of them. Strange because the main element of collaboration is indeed communication among individuals both near and far. Especially far, even in these dwindling days of COVID-19’s remote work and distancing, as remote work is giving way to hybrid work […]
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