Author: jeffyactive
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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 how in future those buildings might be fitted with IoT infrastructure during construction, rather than…
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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, we can say with confidence that we have indeed operated a viable business based solely…
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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 location technologies digitally capture what is physically happening in day-to-day operations. Where should our organisation…
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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 celebrate those disruptors and their inNOvation-first culture! Isn’t innovation a good thing? In a word:…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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