Year: 2026
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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, was invited to present the opening keynote. As longtime readers of RFID Journal, we were…
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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 course, it’s difficult to predict the future, and, alas, in hindsight, we were naively optimistic.…
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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 our experienced human developers. Perhaps so, but that’s not the reason for our demise. AI…
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