The reelyActive Blogs

  • This week we attended the 10th annual Batimatech conference, at the junction of construction, technology and sustainability. Given that just about every Internet of Things (IoT) project we work on happens in and around buildings, we were curious to explore…

  • We’ve heard it countless times before… You can’t build a business around a product that is truly free. You need to impose some artificial constraints to make money. False. Today is reelyActive’s anniversary, and looking back at our thirteenth year,…

  • There’s an IT in IoT. There’s also an OT in IoT, albeit with a small ‘o’. The Internet of Things (IoT) can serve both Information Technology (IT) and Operational Technology (OT) in an organisation. The IoT’s sensor, identification and real-time…

  • While many organisations profess to embrace a culture of innovation, few are bold enough to say NO and to rightly reject the foolish notion that innovation is anything more than incessant, needless change. Let’s make April 1st a day to…

  • We first celebrated Internet of Things Day in 2013 when we monitored the temperature of our IoT Day beers using proprietary IoT hardware and software that we largely created ourselves. Yesterday, on “IoT Day Eve 2024” the world witnessed a…

  • The Internet and the sharing economy have democratised access to mobility, accommodations, and even everyday objects and commodities. So why is that by 2012, a person on-the-go could already hail their “own private driver” in minutes, yet in 2024 the…

  • The World Wide Web turns 35 years old today, March 12th 2024, and its inventor, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, expressed in an open letter the exacerbation of his concerns since the Web’s 30th anniversary, which we blogged about five years ago…

  • Is reelyActive now the billion-dollar startup that some anticipated exactly ten years ago today? On November 8th, 2013, our three-minute pitch won us the title “World’s Best Startup“, and a sizeable trophy, at the finals of the global Startup World…

  • From the standpoint of both applications and economics, Bluetooth Low Energy and RAIN RFID technologies are rapidly converging. In short, that’s our key takeaway from the RFID Journal Live 2023 exhibition floor in Orlando last week. Bluetooth Low Energy and…

  • The recently released 2023 Bluetooth Market Update includes as a “Driver for Tomorrow” what the SIG calls Ambient IoT. To celebrate IoT Day (today, April 9th), we thought it would be fitting to reflect on how the concept of ambience…