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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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Ask your digital transformation provider…
Would you choose to receive dental treatment from a dentist with bad teeth? Fitness coaching from a coach that is unfit? Change management consulting from an organisation resistant to change? At the First International Innovation 4.0 Forum this week, we…
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Who owns the future?
Occasionally a book will provide the opportunity for the reader to travel back in time and delve into the mind of an author that was thinking far ahead, at least as far as the reader’s present. What a pleasure to…
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The catallaxy of Industry 4.0
Consider the following prediction by Matt Ridley, in his 2010 book The Rational Optimist: I forecast that the twenty-first century will show a continuing expansion of catallaxy — Hayek’s word for spontaneous order created by exchange and specialisation. Intelligence will…
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Are we selling discomfort?
What’s your product? “It’s a real-time data stream of who/what is where/how in any physical space” anyone at reelyActive might answer today. Okay. But what are you really selling? Curiously, what we’re really selling today may very well be discomfort.…
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