Back in 1926, the great Nicola Tesla was prescient in his thinking when he said: “When wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain, which in fact it is, all things being particles of a real and rhythmic whole…and the instruments through which we shall be able to do… Read more
Medical Device firms have tremendous opportunities to harness the power of IoT especially given the typical product mix of capital equipment, consumables, software, and services. Capital equipment devices usually are installed and operated within the context of a hospital or clinical environment. Device manufacturers that mechanize and develop smart, connected device infrastructure could bring about… Read more
Looking back to our last post, we learned all of the Things in an IoT system must be able to communicate within a common framework. There needs to be a clear communication protocol in place that defines what the format of the payload looks like when Things communicate. When this framework is defined the full value of… Read more
In my last post I outlined a simple definition for the Internet of Things (IoT): “A system of connected Things capable of one-way or two-way interactions using a common framework, designed for systemic intelligence to achieve greater human good and / or for a broader business purpose.” Here are some aspects of this definition to… Read more
The technology space is abuzz with the Internet of Things (IoT), but what is it about IoT that makes it so new and revolutionary and maybe – the next “big thing”? I like how GE’s Marco Annunziata puts it in his Ted Talk, “We are moving to a world where the machines we work with are… Read more
