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November 2, 2016
Published Peter Radsliff on November 2, 2016
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Here are five things on our reading list this week that are worth a look for those who, like us, want to keep up with fast moving IoT trends: 1) The Gartner Top 10 Strategic Tech Trends for 2017. This years trends are all about AI, machine learning, and smart things – and the promise of an intelligent future as we mentioned in our previous blog on Digital Twins (which is trend number 5 in the Gartner report). Gartner analysis is always worth a read. In case you aren’t a Gartner client and haven’t seen the report yet, a summary of it is […]
October 26, 2016
Published Peter Radsliff on October 26, 2016
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Last week Gartner unveiled its Top 10 Tech Trends of 2017. They were announced by at Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2016 in Orlando, Florida. The trends were characterized in to three themes — intelligent, digital, and mesh. Here are the top 10, listed by category: Intelligent: 1) AI & Advanced Analytics 2) Intelligent Apps 3) Intelligent Things Digital: 4) Virtual and Augmented Reality 5) Digital Twin 6) Blockchain Mesh: 7) Conversational Systems 8) Mesh App and Service Architecture 9) Digital Technology Platforms 10) Adaptive Security Architecture As an IoT platform company that enables smart IoT connected devices, we were delighted to see […]
October 19, 2016
Published Peter Radsliff on October 19, 2016
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Musings from our visit to the 2016 Smart Kitchen Summit in Seattle, where the future of food and cooking was chopped, diced and puréed We recently attended the Smart Kitchen Summit, which brought together leaders in the category—all in conversations about the kitchen, food and the potential of technology to simplify lives, reduce waste, and help people make better decisions about what they cook and eat. The summit, created by industry commentator Michael Wolf, in one year’s time has grown to a standing room only affair for designers, CEOs, major appliance brands and up-and-coming startups. Here are the recurring messages […]
October 12, 2016
Published Peter Radsliff on October 12, 2016
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We are literally moving into the age of smart talking products, a new category of the Internet of Things given voice by the advent of Amazon’s Echo/Alexa, and now the newly introduced rival Google Home. And still to come, perhaps, an Apple Siri-enabled equivalent expected in the near future. The recent Google Home announcement drew a lot more attention to the emerging category, which has been called voice-activated or virtual personal assistants. In the lead-up to the Google announce-ment, market research firm Gartner predicted the VPA-enabled wireless speaker market will be a two-billion dollar business by 2020 – with 3.3% […]
September 1, 2016
Published Peter Radsliff on September 1, 2016
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WILL NEW BUSINESS MODELS DEFINE IOT’S FUTURE? Wall Street Journal reporter Christopher Mims did an insightful piece on IoT technology adoption a couple of weekends ago, entitled The Internet of Things Is Here, and It Isn’t a Thing. Mims astutely assessed: “The killer app of the Internet of Things isn’t a thing at all—it is services.” We couldn’t agree more. We actually think HaaS (Hardware as a Service) will become the new SaaS (Software as a Service) and is the future of connected consumer products. As the article vocalized, and what we have been preaching to consumer brands for a long time, […]
August 26, 2016
Published Peter Radsliff on August 26, 2016
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One of the biggest decisions facing consumer products companies undertaking development of connected products is whether to build their own IoT cloud or to adopt a commercially available IoT platform. Here are some thoughts to consider. More building blocks are available than ever before—from Amazon Web Services, IBM Watson IoT, Microsoft Azure, and others—enabling companies who have the understanding and expertise to assemble their own cloud-based IoT infrastructure. And, the websites of some building block companies make it sound like they offer an end-to-end connected product solution, but that is only true if you engage their professional services to build your own IoT […]
August 20, 2016
Published Peter Radsliff on August 20, 2016
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Among the trends for 2016 that we predicted earlier this year was that Connected Product Awareness Would Grow. Now just after the mid-point of the year, we are beginning to see evidence that suggests consumer IoT products indeed are finally getting a boost in at least one critical venue: at retail. One indication of this happening can be seen at your local Best Buy. A year ago there were relatively few small in-store displays of IoT products to be found. Fast forward to today, and displays of smart lights, thermostats, video monitors, doorbells, and various other smart products abound in the […]
August 16, 2016
Published Peter Radsliff on August 16, 2016
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A recent Wall Street Journal article “How Mobile Games Rake In Billions” offers consumer product brands much food for thought. The July 28 article by Sarah Needleman delved into the trend of ‘in-app’ purchases and how the mobile gaming industry is earning billions of dollars, 99¢ at a time. The revenue from mobile games, largely coming from purchases of virtual goods, is estimated to hit almost USD $37 billion this year. ‘CHEATS’ ARE THE NEW ‘WINS’ The term ‘in-app’ or ‘in-game’ refers to purchases that are made while a person is playing a game that they usually acquired for free. […]
August 12, 2016
Published Peter Radsliff on August 12, 2016
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GOOD NEWS: CONNECTED PRODUCTS JUST GOT CHEAPER We were pleased to announce a few days ago our support of low-cost, low-power Wi-Fi chips by Espressif Systems. The highly integrated low-power Espressif ESP8266EX Wi-Fi chip was specifically engineered to make connected products economically feasible in mobile devices, wearable electronics and other lower priced IoT applications. In collaboration with our systems integration partner in China, Axalent Solutions, we’re delighted to be rolling out the Arrayent/Espressif solution in our first customer implementations later this year in China. (see our news release). With this addition to our platform support, as our CEO Cyril Brignone pointed out […]
August 9, 2016
Published Peter Radsliff on August 9, 2016
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ARRAYENT AND AXALENT TO LAUNCH FIRST CUSTOMER ROLLOUTS WITH LOW-COST, LOW-POWER ESPRESSIF WI-FI CHIPS IN CHINA THIS YEAR REDWOOD CITY, CA and SHANGHAI, CHINA – AUGUST 9, 2016 – Arrayent, Inc., developer of the Arrayent Connect IoT (Internet of Things) platform chosen by the world’s most trusted consumer product brands, today announced support for low-cost, low-power Wi-Fi chips by Espressif Systems. Espressif, Arrayent and Axalent Solutions have collaborated to enable the Arrayent Connect Agent firmware stack on the Espressif ESP8266EX integrated Wi-Fi chip and are announcing plans for the first customer rollout of the Arrayent/Espressif solution later this year in China. […]