Category: Internet of Everything
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The Consumer Experience Show #CES2018
For decades, the acronym CES stood for Consumer Electronics Show. A few years ago, in recognition of its expanded scope, the show organizers changed it from an acronym to simply a word, CES. The meaning of CES continues to evolve and some of the descriptors that might be used to describe CES in 2018 include…
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Viodi View – 01/05/18
As a preview of the types of things that can be expected at next week’s International CES, this issue is devoted to Viodi interviews from International CES2017 published in the last two weeks. The topics covered in the videos referenced below range from Mobility to IoT/Smart Home to Content Production Tools to Fashion Technology. Go…
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DSRC or 5G?
Which radio technology will win the day in the autonomous vehicle future; DSRC (Dedicated Short Range Communications) or 5G (or 5GAA (PDF))? As Brian Daugherty, CTO of the Motor and Equipment Manufacturers Association (MEMA) suggests in the above interview, these different radio technologies are likely to be complementary, fulfilling different needs. An important premise is…
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How Telcos Can Play a Prominent Role & Monetize the IoT
Introduction: With extraordinary potential, impact and influence, the Internet of Things (IoT) promises to make a lot of money and improve efficiencies for many different industries. At the IoT Developers Conference, Ericsson cited a Gartner Group prediction of “$1.9 Trillion value-add IoT revenue across industry sectors in 2020.” Indeed, IoT is one of the hottest tech…
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Threat of Disaggregated Network Equipment – Part 3
Introduction: Disaggregation of IT equipment started with Facebook driving the Open Compute Project (OCP) to open up the design of compute servers. It then extended to bare metal switches and white boxes (such as those from Pica8), which are a huge threat to traditional switch/router equipment vendors. The threat is now extended to transport/transmission equipment…
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The $50 Million Smart City Challenge
Will the U.S. Department of Transportation Smart City Challenge do for urban mobility what Google did for gigabit broadband? That is the $50M question as the U.S. Department of Transportation recently launched a contest that is challenging cities and counties (with populations of 250 to 850k) to find ways to use technology to improve mobility and…