Year: 2023

  • World’s Best Cockroach?

    World’s Best Cockroach?

    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 competition in San Francisco. The motivations of that competition’s founder included answering the question of…

  • RFID Journal Live 2023

    RFID Journal Live 2023

    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 RAIN RFID are both AIDC (Automatic Identification and Data Capture) technologies, and, perhaps fittingly, the…

  • A brief history of Ambient IoT

    A brief history of Ambient IoT

    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 became intertwined with the Internet of Things (IoT), in the form of a brief history…

  • ChatIoT

    ChatIoT

    In these times of growing uncertainty, there is one thing that is nonetheless certain: chatbots based on large language models (LLMs) can do no wrong. Over the past few months, this type of artificial intelligence (AI) has demonstrated to the general public how natural human language, that which it generates, can be brazenly applied to…

  • Infrastructure 4.0

    Infrastructure 4.0

    This week HPE Aruba Networking announced, in this press release, their collaboration with Microsoft and ourselves, reelyActive, to facilitate migrating IoT workloads to the cloud. And while that announcement may be modestly titled, the implication for infrastructure interoperability in the Internet of Things (IoT) is anything but! In fact, we’re prepared to argue that in…

  • 2023: Year of interoperability?

    2023: Year of interoperability?

    One of our first major client successes of 2023 involves writing temperature sensor data to a database. Ummm, okay? Whether you’re familiar with the state of the art of technology or not, you’re probably questioning why something as basic as writing temperature sensor readings to a database is considered a major success—let alone worthy of…