We kick off this week’s podcast with a focus on chips and hardware starting with an explainer on Arm’s new Total Solutions for IoT and why it will help developers and device makers speed up time-to-market for connected products. We then talk about plans to put Linux on Arduino devices that were outed in a … Continue reading Episode 343: Return of the connected bunny! The post Episode 343: Return of the connected bunny! appeared first on IoT Podcast - Internet of Things.

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Episode 343: Return of the connected bunny!

The industrial automation world got a jolt of news with Emerson combining some of its industrial IoT software businesses with AspenTech in an $11 billion transaction. We explain why the deal matters and what it means, before hopping over to discuss Best Buy’s acquisition of Current Health. Then we review large funding rounds for Plume … Continue reading Episode 342: Explaining the IoT’s latest $11B deal The post Episode 342: Explaining the IoT’s latest $11B deal appeared first on IoT Podcast - Internet of Things.

Episode 342: Explaining the IoT’s latest $11B deal

Welcome to the weekly podcast! We’re moving Black Friday to October thanks to chip shortages and shipping delays. Meanwhile, Amazon is working on a smart fridge, Google is trying to use a $10 monthly subscription and Nest thermostats to help people go green and also launching new cameras and ways to surf its displays. The … Continue reading Episode 341: Smart cities and smart fridges galore The post Episode 341: Smart cities and smart fridges galore appeared first on IoT Podcast - Internet of Things.

Episode 341: Smart cities and smart fridges galore

This week’s podcast is all about Amazon (with a few other stories for variety). We start the show with a rundown of the devices and services Amazon launched at its device drop on Tuesday. We then explain what it means for the smart home and ask if this is what we want. We also question … Continue reading Episode 340: Amazon wants you to trust its devices The post Episode 340: Amazon wants you to trust its devices appeared first on IoT Podcast - Internet of Things.

Episode 340: Amazon wants you to trust its devices

This week’s show kicks off with the news of the Raspberry Pi Trading company closing a new funding round of $45 million. We talk about what the Pi Trading company is, how it relates to the Foundation, and how companies are building Pis. We then dig into Apple’s plans for healthcare, including plans for tracking mental … Continue reading Episode 339: Much ado about privacy and support The post Episode 339: Much ado about privacy and support appeared first on IoT Podcast - Internet of Things.

Episode 339: Much ado about privacy and support

I need to warn y’all in advance that we don’t discuss Apple news at all this week because nothing really jumped out at us for the IoT. But we did have a lot of other big news starting with Wyze raising $100 million and sharing the precariousness of its situation over the last 18 months. … Continue reading Episode 338: Wyze comes back from the edge The post Episode 338: Wyze comes back from the edge appeared first on IoT Podcast - Internet of Things.

Episode 338: Wyze comes back from the edge

This week we kick off the show discussing several smart devices that might provide a modicum of security or comfort in case of weather disasters associated with climate change. After that, we start the long goodbye to 3G and discuss how companies are reacting. And for those who are keeping track of algorithmic accountability efforts, … Continue reading Episode 337: Blast off with IoT in space The post Episode 337: Blast off with IoT in space appeared first on IoT Podcast - Internet of Things.

Episode 337: Blast off with IoT in space

We start this week’s show with a look at a new surveillance law in Australia that seemingly obliterates a lot of protections around how law enforcement officials can access data and what they can do with it. We also talk about a survey conducted in the U.S. that shows how willing many Americans are to … Continue reading Episode 336: Australia’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad surveillance law The post Episode 336: Australia’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad surveillance law appeared first on IoT Podcast - Internet of Things.

Episode 336: Australia’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad surveillance law

This week’s show starts off with old news that I forgot to tell y’all about last week: The Matter interoperability standard for the smart home is delayed until 2022. We talk about what that means and then turn to Google’s confusing fitness wearable strategy and the new Fitbit Charge 5 device. After that, we discuss … Continue reading Episode 335: Robots need a Myers-Briggs type The post Episode 335: Robots need a Myers-Briggs type appeared first on IoT Podcast - Internet of Things.

Episode 335: Robots need a Myers-Briggs type

Welcome to this week’s episode! We kick it off with a discussion of SmartThing’s new focus on the edge with local control and user-derived device handlers. We then dive into four security stories starting with a flaw in the software development kit (SDK) for a Wi-Fi module, challenges with random number generation on IoT devices, … Continue reading Episode 334: SmartThings’ new edge strategy The post Episode 334: SmartThings’ new edge strategy appeared first on IoT Podcast - Internet of Things.

Episode 334: SmartThings’ new edge strategy

Elon Musk’s SpaceX satellite broadband company is getting into the IoT with the acquisition of Swarm, a smallsat IoT connectivity provider. We talk about that deal, plus what it means that Helium scored $111 million in funding led by Andreessen Horowitz. After that, we talk about malvertising infiltrating the IoT and the Samsung smartwatch that … Continue reading Episode 333: An IoT networking bonanza The post Episode 333: An IoT networking bonanza appeared first on IoT Podcast - Internet of Things.

Episode 333: An IoT networking bonanza

This week, news slowed down a bit so Kevin and kick off the show talking about a connected manual device to physically press buttons or twist dials as needed to turn older appliances “smart.” After praising that idea we panned Amazon’s new soap dispenser for having a Wi-Fi chip that’s really underused. In other Seattle … Continue reading Episode 332: The IoT gets a good idea and a bad idea The post Episode 332: The IoT gets a good idea and a bad idea appeared first on IoT Podcast - Internet of Things.

Episode 332: The IoT gets a good idea and a bad idea

We start this week’s show with a $200 million funding for Wiliot, a company I profiled back in 2017 as one of the vanguards of low-power sensing. Then we tackle a creative idea that could see consumers create safe words for their smart homes to indicate when they might be in trouble. Next up is … Continue reading Episode 331: Safe words for smart homes and cheap mesh The post Episode 331: Safe words for smart homes and cheap mesh appeared first on IoT Podcast - Internet of Things.

Episode 331: Safe words for smart homes and cheap mesh

This week we got great news on the Matter front, as Amazon announced its plans for supporting the smart home interoperability protocol on most of its Echo devices. We talk about new features for Alexa developers before talking about new research from ARM showing a 32-bit ARM-based chip printed on flexible plastic. We then turned … Continue reading Episode 330: Amazon’s Matter plans and how IoT helps first responders The post Episode 330: Amazon’s Matter plans and how IoT helps first responders appeared first on IoT Podcast - Internet of Things.

Episode 330: Amazon’s Matter plans and how IoT helps first responders

Welcome to another show! We’re spending the first few minutes of the show diving into the rise of RF sensing in the IoT, covering the news of Amazon applying for an FCC waiver to use radar for sleep tracking, the FCC creating a notice of proposed rulemaking to use the 60 GHz spectrum for radar, … Continue reading Episode 329: Radar is coming to the smart home The post Episode 329: Radar is coming to the smart home appeared first on IoT Podcast - Internet of Things.

Episode 329: Radar is coming to the smart home

Stacey Higginbotham (formerly Sr. Editor at Fortune) and co-host Kevin Tofel discuss the latest news and analysis of the Internet of Things. Covers Consumer IoT, Industrial IoT and Enterprise IoT. Guests include Vint Cerf, Om Malik, and people from Amazon.com, AT&T, IBM Watson and more.

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