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  • Blog Post: Tip o' the Week #258 – The Network of Your Stuff

    As buzzwords go, 2014 has been a big year for the “ Internet of Things ”, or IoT . A term coined 15 years ago by a specialist in RFID , it was later refined in a paper as referring to a world where machines can share information (perhaps about themselves) with each other, to better manage the environment...
  • Blog Post: IoT at Future Decoded, Excel Docklands, London–12th November

    There's a 3-day conference called " Future Decoded " running at the Excel centre in London's Docklands, with the Technical Day on 12th Nov having keynote speakers such as Prof Brian Cox, Sir Nigel Shadbolt (founder of the Open Data Institute) and Michael Taylor, the IT Director of Lotus...
  • Blog Post: “Latent Data” – the secret sauce of the Internet of Things

    This is part 2 of a series of articles exploring the Internet of Things , starting with the first post, What is this “Internet of Things” thing, anyway? The secret sauce, the Holy Grail, the raison d’ être for Internet of Things is data . That much is pretty obvious to anyone...
  • Blog Post: What is this “Internet of Things” thing, anyway?

    I’m going to start the odd bit of blogging aside from the weekly Tips that will carry on making their way onto this blog. Here is the first in a short series looking at the Internet of Things. The term “ Internet of Things ” (or IoT) has achieved buzzword fever pitch in 2014,...