Year: 2026
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Are things looking up after ten years?
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 reasons we’ve been able to enjoy such longevity has been by maintaining the agility and…
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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: IoT would be ubiquitous, like the Internet itself the next industrial revolution would be well underway,…
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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…
