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How is IoT different from telemetry or M2M (machine-to-machine)?

See “what is IoT?” But in a sentence, it is different because it is the beneficiary of the proliferation of mobile devices, etc. and it has driven the price down…

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IoT Device Design Skill Sets

When starting a company or introducing a new product in the Internet of Things space, beginning with a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) is advisable. When the offering includes hardware, consider…

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Low-Code Platforms

There is much recent attention to low-code software platforms. A deficit of programmers is a catalyst for some of these ventures in addition to potential benefits of lower solution development…

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Security Concepts

Stories about security breaches involving Internet of Things implementations hit the news periodically, usually when the impact is significant enough to attract media attention or when the reason for the…

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Sensing

Sensors may be “at the heart” of the Internet of Things fundamentally. But, in practice, they are usually detecting events or changes in the physical environment in remote locations (“the…

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Should I use AI or ML in my solution?

Machine learning is a branch of artificial intelligence (AI) and computer science which focuses on the use of data and algorithms to imitate the way that humans learn, gradually improving…

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The Public Perception of IoT

This blog post came about as the result of a question to my wife. To be fair to her, she has never had any involvement in IT, so the answer…

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Time-Series Data

All discussions about IoT data include the highly-important type known as “Time-Series,” which is, as the name implies, successive readings paired with their corresponding points in time. Potentially generating a…

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What are “things” in the Internet of Things?

It’s typically a piece of equipment or object that you are trying to remotely monitor. It could be an HVAC system or it could be a field full of corn…

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What are the advantages of no-code development environments?

There is some confusion around what people mean when they use the term “no-code” (and also “low-code”). The idea, theoretically, behind no-code is that you do not need to be…

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What is “cloudless IoT?”

It is an IoT solution that either does not connect to a cloud service of any kind or does not need a cloud service in order to function. So, typically…

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What is “device management”?

Device management is the ability to add a device to whatever kind of network or connectivity that device is using to communicate. That process is usually called provisioning. You are…

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What is “edge computing” and when is it needed?

Think about the “edge” as being the physical location of wherever the IoT solution is happening remotely. So, it’s not where the user is. It’s where the remote thing is….

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What is “the Edge”?

One of the trending topics in the technology world today is the concept of “the Edge,” but does it mean the same thing to everyone? Varying descriptions imply this term…

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What is 5G? What benefits does it provide?

5G is a collection of technologies that make up the next generation of cellular technology. The two big selling points of 5G are: 1) much higher bandwidth than is typically…

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What is a “digital twin?”

Effectively, it’s a computer model of a physical thing. That model is not like taking a picture of the physical thing, it’s a set of business logic and rules that…

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What is a “gateway”?

A device that has the only (or primary) job of routing data from one technology to another. So, for example, a LoRaWAN gateway is one that sends and receives messages…

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What is a “message broker,” like MQTT or AMQP?

A message broker is a piece of software and the infrastructure that it runs on whose job it is to receive and distribute messages. These messages are data packets, data…

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What is a “microservice environment”? What makes it better for IoT?

It is what Prism Core and Prism Edge are built on. It uses a software development model where instead of writing one giant program that performs a set of functions,…

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What is a “time series database”? How is it different from a “regular” database?

A time series database is specifically about being able to store the same information over time and then being able to quickly aggregate that information. This is very common in…