Tag: ambient data

  • A brief history of Ambient IoT

    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…

  • Things abandon Internet for Intranets of Things

    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…

  • Neighbours in Radio History

    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,…

  • Embrace the ambient data in your space

    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…