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How to Think Like Amazon in IoT & Prototyping: the USA vs. China
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How to Think Like Amazon in IoT
Amazon does some pretty amazing things. This is the company that first took over the bookselling world, then over the retailing world. This is also the company that pretty much kicked off the cloud computing craze of recent years. And they are poised to shake up the delivery business and upend the grocery industry.
The thing is, Amazon doesn’t have some secret technology or access to resources that other companies don’t. They didn’t invent the internet, or cloud computing, or package delivery. What Amazon has is imagination and the ambition to act on their imagination…Read Article

USA vs. China
Over the last 2 decades there has been a great rush to move manufacturing out of the US and into Mexico then China. The reason was simple, the cost for labor was vastly lower and this translated into much lower product costs.
With the explosion of the Internet of Things and the large number of new products being designed for this market, I was recently asked “who should I talk to in China to help me with prototyping my new product?”
I’ve never had a particularly good experience with low volume production in China so I reached out to a few design houses and asked them for their input…Read Article

What is Proximity Computing? The 3 Types
Proximity computing, or edge computing, is a means of processing data physically close to where the data is being produced, i.e. where the things and humans are — in the field area, homes, and remote offices.
Since they don’t live in the cloud, we need to complement cloud computing with many forms of computing at the edge to architect IoT solutions.
Discussions about edge computing often overlook how many types of “edge” computing there are. We’ll take a look at the fundamental drivers for edge computing and the many types of edges to consider…Read Article

Should You Use an IoT Platform?
You simply don’t need to build the complete IoT infrastructure yourself. There’s no point reinventing the wheel.
By using a platform, you’ll save costs because you’ll have more functionality with less engineering effort, sooner. And you can focus your development efforts on what really matters: your core value proposition.
Think about it. IoT platform vendors have large teams of developers improving features, fixing bugs, and making sure their offering is rock solid. By leveraging their work, the quality and stability of your product will ride the wave of their investment…Read Article

Increasing Senior Longevity with IoT
The trend to use technological innovations to help seniors live longer, more fulfilling lives is catching steam around the world. Generally known as the Aging 2.0 movement, it holds huge promise for our seniors, especially when it comes to the Internet of Things (IoT).
In fact, though we may not always associate technology with America’s expanding senior population, IoT — along with a new round of connected wearables, portables, and emergency support systems — is about to change that…Read Article

Imagining the Airport of the Future
Think back to your most recent experience at the airport. For all its romance of a bygone era, the airport experience has become a drag.
You show up hours early only to stand in line after line, with harried TSA agents doing their best to stay positive or at least neutral as they deal with hordes of worn-out and tired passengers just trying to get home.
There has to be another way…Read Article

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