Tag: IoT

  • IoT in 2026

    IoT History Successful Endeavours’ first IoT project, was in 1998. That is before Kevin Ashton used the term “Internet of Things” in a 1999 Procter & Gamble presentation. The trend was already establishing itself and the name stuck. What did an IoT project look like in 1998? This was a…

  • IoT Impact Award Winners 2023

    IoT Impact Award Winners 2023 The IoT Impact conference and exhibition was on again this year. We were sponsors and also meant to exhibit but a combination of COVID and other health matters at the last moment made it too difficult. We were finalists in the IoT Health Award category…

  • IoT Impact 2018

    IoT Impact IoT Impact is the primary IoT (Internet of Things) event for 2018. It is supported by IoTAA (IoT Alliance Australia) and is being held in Sydney at UTS from 10 – 11 September. We will be exhibiting.   You can register with our discount code to get a…

  • Artificial Intelligence Usage Now

    Artificial Intelligence There has been hype about Artificial Intelligence, or AI, ever since we starting thinking about creating it. Moves to create truly independently thinking systems are still struggling but expert and self-learning systems have made a lot of progress.   So I was interested to get an email from Karthik…

  • The Internet of Insecure Things

    Insecurity in Cyberspace This is not one of those topics that makes you feel better initially. In IoT Security we looked at how the emerging IoT world needed to protect itself against attacks. This is a different problem to pure Software Security which has its own challenges.   It was…

  • IoT Drives Change

    IoT Change Catalyst The Internet of Things, or IoT, continues to break new ground. Although there are still many things to be worked out, there is no doubt it will create new opportunities and enable value propositions previously unimaginable.   So I was please when Garrick Stanford from RS Components sent…

  • Solar Charging Improvements

    Powering Telemetry A big issue in the world of the Internet of Things, or IoT as it is abbreviated, is how to get power to remote devices. And this splits up into two separate but definitely related problems:   the power source the power consumption Obviously, if the power consumption…

  • arcHUB – Smart Cities case study

    Smart Cities This follows on from our look at Smart Cities and the technology mix being considered for how you implement them. For this post we will look at the development of a Smart City Telemetry sensor suite and the ICT communications that go with it. This is also a…

  • Smart Cities

    Smart Cities A Smart City is a blending of current and emerging technologies being employed to allow a city to better manage its assets and deliver value to its residents. It is an emerging concept and still very much in exploration. The 2 core technology areas being investigated as the primary value…

  • Cellular IoT Communications

    LPWAN = Low Power Wide Area Network LPWAN is typically thought about as cellular data networks but that involves a contradiction since cellular and low power are inherently in conflict with each other. For instance, a standard 3G or 4G cellular modem will have a peak current draw of up…