Author: jeffyactive
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Anticipating the Social Dilemma
Three days ago, on September 9th, 2020, Netflix released The Social Dilemma which “explores the dangerous human impact of social networking, with tech experts sounding the alarm on their own creations.” A recurring theme in the eye-opening documentary-drama hybrid is how technology is manipulated to disconnect “users” from their own reality, and to predict and…
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Neighbours in Radio History
On May 20th, 1920, history was made from the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Co. building in Montréal with the transmission of the world’s first scheduled radio broadcast. An audience in Ottawa tuned in nearly two-hundred kilometres away to enjoy a live vocal performance which was transmitted successfully from an aerial atop the building on William Street,…
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Every Day is a New Normal
In the Spring of 2020, as COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic, and as lockdowns ensued, the question of the day was “when will we get back to normal?” Soon thereafter, as the unprecedented socioeconomic consequences of the pandemic became apparent, the question of the day became “what will be the new normal?” In either…
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GR8 changes ahead
It’s July 2020, and today we celebrate reelyActive’s eighth anniversary of incorporation amidst a global pandemic and a tumultuous global climate, both political and planetary. If anything is certain, it is that great changes lie ahead. After the team flew to San Francisco in March to proudly accept an Elastic Search Award for “making physical…
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Embrace the ambient data in your space
In February of 2020, we updated the one-liner of landing page to Embrace the ambient data in your space. We did this for two reasons: observing and processing all the ambient wireless packets in a space is a key differentiator of our technology platform enhancing the human experience by augmenting physical presence with digital data…
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COVID-IoT Day
We’ve been celebrating #IoTDay since 2013, and this year is certainly the most particular, as we and our fellow global citizens all find ourselves impacted by COVID-19, declared a pandemic four weeks ago. Social distancing and stay-at-home measures mean that many people experience a sense of physical isolation, while the Internet of Things (IoT), which…
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Oui, oui. Our office is Crap!
We kicked off 2020 in an awesome new space which we called Parc (Parc Avenue Research Centre). Perhaps because we were so backed up with work in Q1, we neglected to translate the name to French. To kick off Q2, today on April 1st, 2020, we proudly invite you to say “bonjour” to Crap, the…
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Location and traceability in times of pandemic
Yesterday (March 11th, 2020), the World Health Organisation’s Director General characterised COVID-19 as a pandemic. Today, in Montréal where reelyActive is based, and around the world, many find themselves directly and personally affected by measures intended to prevent the spread of the virus, including business, institution and school closures, as well as travel restrictions and…
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Predict not what you can create
We’re all familiar with some variant of the adage: The best way to predict the future is to create it. Our first blog post of each of the past three years has been about prediction. This year will be different. What’s different this year is our move into a new office which will serve as…
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Open hardware: a closed case?
If you’re familiar with our blog posts, you’ll know we never get bored populating them with puns (oof, there they are already). In case it isn’t obvious, the title is playing on the word case: we’ll be talking about enclosures here. Specifically, why is open hardware so seldom designed to take advantage of an off-the-shelf…
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