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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…
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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…
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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…
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The Summer of the Future of Work
Happy Canada Day! Across the Northern Hemisphere, the start of July marks a summer break from work and school which resume in full swing in September. What’s different in 2021 is that the September return-to-work will for many mean going…
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Back to normal thanks to Industry 4.1
April 1st, 2021 marks the start of the first full month of the second year of the COVID-19 global pandemic. In short, it has been a very long time since things have been “normal”. Can we even define what exactly…
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Farewell open source
A year ago today we found ourselves in San Francisco proudly accepting an Elastic Search Award. A year ago today, COVID-19 had not yet been declared a global pandemic, and the Elastic Stack was open source. Today, the Elastic Stack…
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Already a decade? For reels?
Valentine’s Day 2021 represents a special anniversary for reelyActive: ten years ago today the first sketches of the “reel” concept were inscribed in Jeff’s notebook below (left page). At the time, the concept was entitled daisy chain / icicle light…
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Open for business today and a better tomorrow
As we begin 2021 in the second (or even third!) wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, businesses around the world have by now, with few exceptions, been forced to shift, scale or even suspend their operations. During the first wave, many…