Author: jeffyactive
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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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IoT and the coming recession
With all signs now pointing clearly towards an impending recession, should we be worried about the project of a global Internet of Things? In a word, YES. First, let’s take account of the global situation halfway through 2022: we’ve collectively endured two years of a global pandemic, inflation and interest rates are taking a greater…
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RFID Journal Live 2022
When we first attended RFID Journal Live in 2013, reelyActive was not even a year old, and yet we proudly showed off the innovative real-time location system (RTLS) that we had rapidly developed based on our own proprietary active RFID (radio-frequency identification) hardware and reel technology. Back then, we were solving a hardware problem: offering…
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Things abandon Internet for Intranets of Things
This April 1st, tens of billions of “things” are expected to abandon the Internet and spontaneously reconnect in countless ephemeral Intranets of Things. The Internet of Things was a foolish idea anyway. An anonymous thing choosing to be identified as f0:01:ed:01:04:22 The term Internet of Things (IoT), coined by Kevin Ashton in 1999 to describe…
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Empathic Spaces succeed Smart Spaces
What do you call physical spaces that can sense their own occupants and environment? In 2014, we decided to adopt the term Smart Spaces. We shared our vision of this concept in our video entitled Smart Spaces put Things in Context and proudly registered the domain name smartspac.es. Why Things? Because of our innovation of…
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