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IoT Security: Navigating the Challenge and Solutions

IoT Security: Navigating the Challenges and Solutions

The Internet of Things (IoT) is expanding at an unprecedented rate, with advancements in technology, falling costs, and a burgeoning market making it one of the most dynamic fields today. However, with this rapid growth come significant security challenges. Let’s delve into the current state of IoT security and explore effective strategies to address these […]

IoT Security a Challenge As Device Numbers Rise

IoT Security a Challenge As Device Numbers Rise

It is indisputable that the Internet of Things (IoT) is the next Industrial Revolution, given the impact it will have on the way people, businesses and governments live and work. Boston Consulting Group (BCG) predicts $267 billion USD will be spent on IoT technologies, products, and services within 3 years. IoT, then, is the future. […]

How To Get Your IoT Project Off the Ground

How To Get Your IoT Project Off the Ground

We all know IoT is on the way to becoming a seriously big business in the next few years, with a likely annual growth rate of as high as 50 percent, taking the market worldwide to US$1.7 trillion by 2020. This growth will be based on more vendors and enterprises embracing IoT and its opportunities. […]

IoT Goes Beyond the Connected Home

Beyond the Connected Home: Revolutionary IOT Applications

IoT has traditionally been associated with the Connected Home. The idea that your car can talk to your front door, which can talk to your lighting, which can talk to your stove. The standard example of IoT is that your car – using embedded software and the cloud – is able to inform your front […]

Sizing Up the Internet of Things Opportunity

Sizing Up the Internet of Things Opportunity

When the Internet of Things (IoT) first became a “thing”, just a few years ago, expectations for the space were astronomical. Analysts were predicting the market for connected devices by 2020 could be as high as 100 billion units. Thankfully, in terms of managing expectations and pleasing investors, forecasts these days are less hyperbolic. But […]

How to Control LED Lights with a Raspberry Pi

How to Control LED Lights with a Raspberry Pi

As an IoT (Internet of Things) shop, we love working with new technology and creating fun useful side projects.  We have worked on everything from a temperature sensor for the office, to a boost controller for a Subaru WRX.  So when one of our staff was working on a theater room for his house, we […]

Introducing Kids to CS

Introducing Kids to Computer Science

In today’s tech-centric world, introducing kids to computer science is so important. Despite that the technology industry is one of the fastest-growing industries in the US, many schools cannot afford computer science programs. According to Newswire, only about 25% of high schools in the US offer computer science classes. With our schools not yet able […]

Nest Thermostat Disaster, When IoT Goes Wrong

Nest Thermostat Disaster, When IoT Goes Wrong

The Nest thermostat has been an iconic example of an Internet of Things device, but today it is the epitome of IoT failures. Nest had an epic meltdown for devices all across the world that left homeowners out in the cold… literally. As the New York Times reports, “The problems with the much-hyped thermostat…affected an […]

3 Creative Ways to Elevate Your Professional Development

3 Creative Ways to Elevate Your Professional Development

What does football have to do with professional development? Let me explain…sometimes I like to imagine what life would have been like if I had become a professional football player. Now, don’t get too excited, there was little chance of that ever happening, but I find it an interesting thought exercise. Call it Monday morning […]

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