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Yes, as in “we’re still having to look up things” after ten years. Specifically radio-identifiable things, for which there’s still no observed, standard way to look them up.
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One-Four: The Reckoning
reelyActive celebrated its 14th anniversary on July 27th, 2026, and today we kick off our fifteenth fiscal year. If, statistically, most businesses fail within five years, you might say we’re entering super-cockroach startup territory! Looking back, one of the key…
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Gorilla-free RFID & IoT
Last week, we attended the 20th anniversary edition of the IEEE RFID conference in Santa Fe, NM. To mark this milestone (pun intended), Mark Roberti, founder and former editor of RFID Journal, a pillar in the industry for a quarter-century,…
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IoT Day, 13 years on…
April 9th is IoT Day, an occasion we first celebrated in 2013 when reelyActive was a mere 9 months old. If you had asked us then where we’d expect “things” to be in 2026, we’d likely have argued that: Of…
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AI has made IoT middleware irrelevant
We knew this day would come. AI has made what we do irrelevant. As of today, April 1st, 2026, reelyActive has no business stewarding open source IoT middleware. You might think it is because AI can write code better than…
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The building blocks of construction and IoT
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…
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One viable business. Zero artificial constraints.
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,…
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IT-friendly IoT
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…
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A day to celebrate inNOvation-first culture!
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…
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IoT Day
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…
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