The reelyActive Blogs

  • 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…

  • 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,…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…