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Smart Pills raise privacy concerns in personally connected world
This week’s Smart Health series features rising concerns over the use of smart pills, a collaboration that enhances a wearable pet tracker, and a wrist-worn device that lets you control your world. . Will smart pills cause privacy issues? . ePill is one example of a smart pill designed to monitor patient behavior and streamline treatment ...
Apple, home automation service providers expand reach + products
This week’s Smart Living roundup features ADT’s investment towards the development of a new security app, AT&T’s expansion of its Digital Life smart home platform into new markets, and the emergence of a new smart home model. ADT leads Life360 Series C funding . Life360, an app that helps people keep track of the whereabouts ...
Smart World Weekly: Smart lighters, smart concrete + more
This week’s Smart World Series features a strategic partnership for home automation, a smart lighter to help smokers kick the habit, and how smart infrastructures are helping build smart cities. For those who missed this week’s Smart World Series, here’s a chance to catch up on the exciting developments in the connected world. Each week, ...
Smart infrastructure helps erect Smart Campuses
This week’s Smart Infrastructure roundup features data-driven infrastructure that supports smart campuses, a new system to aid grid managers, and the latest developments for smart meters. OSIsoft collaborates on smart campuses . OSIsoft, maker of scalable and secure infrastructure for the management of real-time data and events, signed a collaborative deal with Tongji University, Carnegie ...
Will smart cities ever take off?
This week’s Smart City roundup takes a look into the progress of smart cities, a smart sustainable city rising in the desert, and a smart concrete formula that could help give rise to smart cities around the world. Where is the smart city? . With so much talk of a future where everything is connected ...
Smart lighter helps smokers kick the habit
This week’s Smart Health roundup features a smart lighter to help smokers quit, a fitness system fueled for growth, a smart collar to better understand our pets. Quitbit for healthier lungs . Smoking is an addiction and though some claim they can easily quit if they want to, it’s not always so simple. But in ...
Home automation goes commercial with strategic partnerships
This week’s Smart Living roundup features a fresh team up with Insteon and Microsoft, Direct Energy’s partnership with Nest, and home automation service providers renewed focus on commercial initiatives. Insteon Windows apps coming this summer . Insteon, maker of home automation solutions, revealed that its apps for Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8will be available ...
Watch LIVE : Where does IBM fit in the software-defined world? #IBMedge
IBM recently concluded Impact 2014, an event showcasing Big Blue’s comprehensive portfolio offerings for mobile, cloud, the Internet of Things, Big Data and security. Now IBM is once again inviting IT professionals and practitioners on May 19-23, 2014 at The Venetian in Las Vegas Nevada for Edge2014. IBM Edge2014 is all about infrastructure innovation, with ...
Smart World Weekly: Invasion of smart boards, HUDs + more
This week’s Smart World Series features the top trends in the Internet of Things (IoT), how wearable devices can transform education and the workplace, and the president’s push for smarter infrastructure. For those who missed this week’s Smart World Series, here’s a chance to catch up on the exciting developments in the connected world. Each ...
On smart infrastructure funding, Obama urges Congress to act now
This week’s Smart Infrastructure edition features the fate of dwindling government infrastructure funding, an infographic of how machine-to-machine (M2M) capabilities save money for service providers, and how the United Kingdom is handling infrastructure construction for the future. Obama pushes smart infrastructure initiatives . By September 30 of this year, spending authorization for the Highway Trust ...