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  • Investing in a Value-First Sharing Economy

    Investing in a Value-First Sharing Economy

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    Last month we had the pleasure of reading The Sharing Economy and subsequently meeting the author, Arun Sundararajan, with whom we shared our praise, at the New Cities Summit. The book, which we’ve added to our bibliography, eloquently ties together many of our pioneering thoughts on innovation and economics, which we’ll discuss here, starting with…

  • LPLAN as amenaBLE to M2M as LPWAN

    LPLAN as amenaBLE to M2M as LPWAN

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    This week we attended the Wavefront IoT Roadshow where much of this year’s hype was around LPWAN technologies which allow simple, inexpensive radio devices to communicate short messages with cellular base stations kilometers away. An excellent example of the potential of this technology is the SMOCKEO smoke detector which automatically and securely communicates status and…

  • Vint Cerf and the Good Fight for the IoT

    Vint Cerf and the Good Fight for the IoT

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    At the 2nd IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things we had the honour and privilege to hear Vint Cerf, a true role model and one of the fathers of the Internet, present a keynote on the IoT. More than that, we had the opportunity to snap the photo above as we shook his hand…