2019-06-11 15:54
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Internet of Things blog (IoT), Internet of Everything, data liberation and miscellany by W. David Stephenson
2019-06-10 17:39
I’m back at PTC’s annual LiveWorx lollapalooza, gathering ideas for my Industry Week column, starting with a presentation by Dell’s Supply Chain Director, Gentry Pate on ho… Read More
2019-06-01 18:48
As is so often the case, technological success can often result in unintended consequences that, left unremedied, could negate the benefits.
As my latest Industry Week column I looked at… Read More
2019-05-03 16:38
It’s been a while since I’ve addressed my concept of “SmartAging,” which combines “Quantified Self” health devices that can improve seniors’ health… Read More
2019-03-20 19:36
Tragically, the Boeing 737-Max includes an Internet of Things technology — the “digital twin” — that might have avoided the current tragedies, if only its use had bee… Read More
2019-02-26 19:40
Just came across a report from the World Economic Forum late last year that undermines management’s defense that ignorance is bliss when it comes to the IoT.
Titled “Europe, A… Read More
2019-02-09 14:37
Last week’s international political news was a dramatic reminder of how inextricably linked technology progress (in this case, 5G infrastructure) and high-stakes global intrigue and ev… Read More
2018-09-16 17:06
Pardon me: this is a very personal post.
For about an hour Thursday night we didn’t know whether my son’s home in Lawrence was one of those blown up by the gasline explosion… Read More
2018-07-26 16:50
Huzzah!
On August 7th, HarperCollins’ new Leadership imprint (formerly Amacom) will publish The Future Is Smart, my guide to IoT strategy for businesses and the general public. B… Read More
2018-06-19 13:30
Aiden Quilligan, Accenture Industry X.0, on AI:
Mindset and AI: must undo what Hollywood has done on this over years, pose it as human vs. machine.
We think it should be human PLUS machine… Read More
2018-06-18 19:25
I just had to take time out from my live blogging of PTC’s LiveWorx ’18 to focus on one of the topics Jim Heppelmann mentioned in passing in his keynote: the new variation on the… Read More
2018-06-18 12:59
Always my fav event, I’ll be liveblogging #LiveWorx ’18. Stay tuned!
Keynote: Jim Heppelmann:
“from a place to a pace” — how fast are we moving?
no longer… Read More
2018-06-07 13:33
pardon me in advance:this will be long, but I think the topic merits it!
One of my fav bits of strategic folk wisdom (in fact, a consistent theme in my Data Dynamite book on the open data pa… Read More
2018-04-30 13:09
This is the first of an occasional series of posts preceding the August 1st publication of The Future Is Smart. The book will introduce the Internet of Things to business audiences and help… Read More
2018-04-04 22:03
OK, you may say I’m over-sensitive, but a headline today from Google’s blog that others may chuckle about (“Noodle on this: Machine learning that can identify ramen by shop… Read More
2018-03-29 01:10
In the latter stages of writing The Future Is Smart, I came across Local Motors, an amazing company that is not only an IoT innovator but also might pr0vide a model to revolutionize American… Read More
2018-03-13 21:32
Right after I submitted my final manuscript for The Future is Smart I had a chance to spend an hour with old friend Jason Daniels (we collaborated on a series of “21st Century Homeland… Read More
2018-02-28 17:29
Late in the process of writing my forthcoming IoT strategy book, The Future Is Smart, I happened on the “IoT Design Manifesto 1.0” site. I wish I’d found it earlier so I co… Read More
2018-02-25 14:47
Pardon a political analogy, Just as the recent indictment of 13 Russians in the horrific bot campaign to undermine our democracy (you may surmise my position on this! The WIRED article about… Read More
2018-02-14 17:55
Permit me to (re-)introduce myself, LOL.
I haven’t posted since the end of October, because I was totally absorbed in writing The Future is Smart, my book about IoT strategy, which wil… Read More
2017-10-31 21:13
As the Red Sox’ Joe Castiglione might say, “Can you believe it?” (I should add a few more question marks to underscore exactly how unbelievable this IoT device is).
That&rs&hell…Read More
2017-10-21 17:58
Brilliant! Crowd-funded (even better!) Mycroft brings the rich potential of open-source to the growing field of digital home assistants. I suspect it won’t be long until i… Read More
2017-10-10 15:45
Critical Infrastructure and IoT
Robert Metzger, Shareholder, Rogers Joseph O’Donnell
a variety of constraints to direct government involvement in IoT
regulators: doesn’t tr… Read More
2017-09-13 17:30
Let’s not forget: human workers can and must still pay a role in the IoT!
Sure, the vast majority of IoT focus is on large-scale precision and automated manufacturing (Industrie 4.0 as… Read More
2017-08-03 18:24
It sounds (pardon the pun) as if the IoT may really be taking off as an important diagnostic repair tool.
I wrote a while ago about the Auguscope, which represents a great way to b… Read More
2017-07-22 15:10
I’ve been giving a lot of thought recently about how my vision of I0T-based “SmartAging” through a combination of:
Quantified Self health apps and devices to improve senior… Read More
2017-07-07 14:58
One of my unchanging principles is always to look to situations where there’s a lot at stake — especially human lives — for breakthroughs in difficult issues.
Exhibit A of… Read More
2017-06-14 17:59
I’m a big advocate of incremental IoT strategies (check out my recent webinar with Mendix on this approach), for existing companies that want to test the waters first. However, I&rsquo&hell…Read More
2017-05-23 12:56
Got here a little late for CEO Jim Heppelman’s keynote, so here goes!
Vuforia: digital twin gives you everything needed for merging digital “decorations” on the physic… Read More
2017-05-16 13:42
Some of you may remember that I’ve blogged several times about my enthusiasm for Amazon’s Alexa as a cornerstore of what I call SmartAging, the combination of IoT health-monitori… Read More
2017-05-08 14:26
I’ll speak at PTC’s LiveWorx lollapalooza later this month (ooh: act quickly and I can get you a $300 registration discount: use code EDUCATE300) on my IoT-based Circular Co… Read More
2017-05-01 20:11
creating your IoT strategy webinar
Hope you’ll join me and Mendix (which, BTW, Gartner just tabbed as a platform as service [Paas] “Magic Quadrant” leader for i… Read More
2017-04-22 01:48
I love it when manufacturers stop selling things — and their revenues soar!
That’s one of the things I’ll cover on May 2nd in”Define Your Breakout IoT” st… Read More
2016-10-25 01:58
Could EVERYTHING be “smart?” It may be happening sooner we thought, and with implications that are hard to fathom today.
That’s the potential with new technology pioneered… Read More
2016-10-19 14:31
Don’t say I didn’t warn you about how privacy and security had to be THE highest priority for any IoT device.
On September 19th, Chris Rezendes and I were the guests on a Harvard… Read More
2016-10-11 16:42
Could the IoT’s most profound impact be on management and corporate organization, not just cool devices?
I’ve written before about my still-being-refined vision of the IoT &mdash&hell…Read More
2016-09-28 15:04
The only issue Clinton and Trump can agree on is the need for massive improvements to the nation’s crumbling infrastructure, especially its roads and bridges. But, please, let’s… Read More
2016-09-15 20:33
What do you think constitutes “SmartAging?”
It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything about my IoT-based “SmartAging” concept, which combines:
Quantifi… Read More
2016-09-08 23:21
“….I yield to no one in my love of smart city technologies, but I’ve been mixing it up in government for far longer, so I was appropriately chastised by this Boston Globe… Read More
2016-08-22 19:20
Simultaneously sharing real-time data and collaborating (vs. linear methods where departments work in isolation from each other and sequentially) is a major theme of my “Circular Compa… Read More
2016-08-10 18:00
There’s a new high-speed 3D printer on the horizon which, coupled with the IoT, could really revolutionize product design and manufacturing.
I’ve raved in the past about 3D print… Read More
2016-07-20 23:43
Cities are the future of global civilization and the economy, and smart cities are the only way they’ll survive and prosper!
Join me and two SAP experts on the subject, Dina Dayal &hell…Read More
2016-07-12 17:19
Two major developments in the 3-D printing world, from Fictiv and (who woulda thunk it!) UPS, make me think the time has come for “distributing manufacturing” and getting away fr… Read More
2016-06-27 15:46
Wow: as the old Dinah Washington ditty went, “What a Difference a Day Makes.” Since last Thursday, I doubt even the most diehard IoT zealots have thought about anything but Brexi… Read More
2016-06-21 22:51
Several months ago I wrote about an analogy to the world of business prior to the Internet of Things, in which a metaphorical illness called “Collective Blindness” affected… Read More
2016-06-08 14:11
Colin Angle, CEO, iRobot:
smart home: people have hard time learning how to use current generation of smart home devices. Unacceptable delay in activation. we need “just live your life… Read More
2016-06-07 12:38
1st up is Jim Heppelmann, PTC CEO and co-author w/ Michael Porter of the great 2-part HBR series on IoT strategy & tactics.
But 1st, few words from David Pogue, the great consumer tech w… Read More
2016-05-31 17:44
Amazon Echo & services it can trigger!
I predict every elderly person will soon have a personal home assistant, ready to respond to their every command.
However, that home health aide ma… Read More
2016-05-25 18:38
A new Industry Week survey shows that most manufacturers are, at best, just testing the IoT waters, and few have made the management changes necessary that show they understand the IoT&rsquo&hell…Read More
2016-05-24 21:32
Several months ago I predicted that Amazon’s Echo might become the IoT’s killer device, primarily because it is voice activated. It appears that prediction is coming true, which… Read More
2016-05-02 23:44
I love IoT apps and devices that allow us to increase the efficiency of existing products and services, but long-time readers may remember that I have a special fond spot for “wha… Read More
2016-05-02 17:23
Zoe smart home hub
I’ve raved before about Echo, Amazon’s increasingly versatile smart home hub, primarily because it is voice activated, and thus can be used by anyone, regardle… Read More
2016-04-11 14:22
Oops: I’ve been preoccupied with all sorts of dreck since returning from my SAP event, so I haven’t been able to post.
Did want to call your attention to a long IoT Day intervie… Read More
2016-03-22 16:21
Greg Gorbach, ARC Advisory Group, Industrial Internet of Things:
ARC is an analyst firm, in Boston.
new service models
new products
new production techniques
new business processes
new compe… Read More
2016-03-21 17:07
I’m back in Sodom and Gomorrah in the desert, AKA Las Vegas, to speak at another SAP IoT conference: SCM CRM IoT 2016, and to live blog again!
Keynoters: Hans Thalbauer, sr. vp of exte… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
Hey, everyone else has weighed in with an explanation on why Flight 370 crashed, so I did, today, with a piece in the Harvard Business Review blog in which I blamed it on lack of &ldquo&hell…Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
In case you missed it, old friend Christopher Dorobek put together a great (in all modesty, LOL …) panel today for his “DorobekINSIDER” series on GovLoop about how the Int… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
Pardon me for “shouting” in this headline, but I just had a stark realization that if one of my Internet of Things Essential Truths had been practiced by Rolls-Royce and Mal… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
Hi! I’ll be joining old friend Chris Dorobek for his “Dorobek Live” discussion on GovLoop next Wednesday to talk about how the Internet of Things is changing governme… Read More
2016-03-08 17:41
A degree of precision in every aspect of the economy impossible before the IoT is one of my fav memes, in part because it should encourage companies that have held back from IoT strateg… Read More
2016-03-08 17:41
A degree of precision in every aspect of the economy impossible before the IoT is one of my fav memes, in part because it should encourage companies that have held back from IoT strateg… Read More
2016-03-01 01:45
Get ready for the age when every product will have a “digital twin” back at the manufacturer, a perfect copy of not just the product as it left the factory floor, but as it… Read More
2016-02-25 12:41
Yesterday’s NYT had the most thoughtful piece I’ve seen about the long-term implications of the FBI’s attempts to get Apple to add a “backdoor” to the iPhone th… Read More
2016-02-17 22:55
Think again, if you’re a small and medium-sized business (SMB) that is holding back on Internet of Things projects until the price of software and components such as sen… Read More
2016-02-17 22:55
Think again, if you’re a small and medium-sized business (SMB) that is holding back on Internet of Things projects until the price of software and components such as sen… Read More
2016-02-17 15:57
I’m up first this morning, & hope to lift attendees’ vision of what can be achieved with the Internet of Things: sure, cool devices and greater efficiency are great, but… Read More
2016-02-16 17:12
Hmm. Never been to Vegas before: seems designed to bring out the New England Puritan in me. I’ll pass on opulence, thank you very much…
SAP HANA/ IoT Conference
Up front, very i… Read More
2016-02-10 14:55
As if there wasn’t already enough reason to make privacy and security your top IoT priority (see what I wrote earlier this week), now there’s more evidence Uncle Sam may be acces… Read More
2016-02-09 01:51
This just in: your Internet of Things strategy will fail unless you make data privacy and security the absolute highest priority.
I didn’t always think that way.
Long-time readers know… Read More
2016-01-25 20:47
What if you’re interested in the Internet of Things, but are a little scared of making a major commitment and making major expenditures until you build your familiarity level and start… Read More
2016-01-09 16:56
POST-SCRIPT : LATE-BREAKING NEWS: GE WILL ANNOUNCE TOMORROW THAT THEY’RE MOVING THEIR WORLD HEADQUARTERS TO BOSTON. EVEN THOUGH THE HEART OF THE COMPANY’S INDUSTRIAL INTERN… Read More
2016-01-07 15:48
I don’t know about you, but, in the face of grim news globally, I’m determined to make this an incredible year of change and growth.
Happy New Year!
I took a longer than normal t… Read More
2015-12-02 16:16
I want to offer you six great reasons — five of them are seated with my wife and me in this photo — why we all should make global warming a primary focus of IoT projects for… Read More
2015-11-20 17:26
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Could Amazon’s Echo be the Trojan Horse that gets the smart home and IoT inside our homes — and consciousness?
Typical Amazon Echo commands
I’ve always… Read More
2015-11-02 19:23
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Fasten your seatbelts! I think I’ve finally zeroed in on the Internet of Things’ (IoT’s) most important potential economic benefit and how it coul… Read More
2015-10-26 14:44
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Keynotes:
Came in on end of presentation by Rep. Suzan DelBene, D-WA, co-chair of the House IoT Caucus and an IT industry vet. Her litany of federal inaction in the face of r… Read More
2015-10-19 12:58
I always love the Internet of Things Global Summit in DC because it’s the only IoT conference I know of that places equal emphasis on both IoT technology and public policy, especi… Read More
2015-10-08 15:07
Got your attention? I find there’s nothing like the fear of death to focus one’s attention.
AliveCor
Somehow I managed to forget blogging about one of the real highlights of last… Read More
2015-10-01 15:47
Claro IoT Service Diagram Cards — collect the whole set!
Some IoT advances are as important symbolically (especially as key steps in the IoT’s maturation) as in their own right… Read More
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