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Making Sense of All That Data: IoT Finds Its Missing Link | Electronics360

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Casual observers of the Internet of things likely think it’s all about automating appliances and entire homes, as well as devices like wearables that will supposedly make their lives better. But delve deeper into IoT and a different picture emerges: if this is all IoT had to offer, it wouldn’t be that big of a deal. In reality, the real revenue generating goldmines for the companies involved in ma...
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Watch This $100 Drone Try to Do a Bumblebee’s Job

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Japanese tinkerers created a tiny, flower-pollinating drone for a world without insects. Could there be anything gloomier to think about than a mechanical bee? It’s a sad fact—bee populations are in decline in many parts of the world. While the reasons bees are in trouble aren’t yet well understood, the problem has some technologists investigating whether drones could fly flower-spreading ...
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X10 Basics

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X10 is a protocol for communication among electronic devices used for home automation (domotics). It primarily uses power line wiring for signaling and control, where the signals involve brief radio frequency bursts representing digital information. A wireless radio based protocol transport is also defined. X10 was developed in 1975 by Pico Electronics of Glenrothes, Scotland, in order to a...
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The Emergence of Facial Recognition Technology

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The Emergence of Facial Recognition Technology Facial recognition has an image problem. In 2014, a Denver man was arrested for robbing two banks on the basis of surveillance video stills shown to acquaintances and his ex-wife. The case was dismissed, but the man was rearrested a year later — this time based on FBI facial recognition technology. The problem? The man who was arrested had a d...
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The Abandoned Cable Problem: State-of-the-Industry and Smart Solutions | Realcomm Advisory

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The Abandoned Cable Problem: State-of-the-Industry and Smart Solutions Author: Realcomm Staff Writer The exponential growth in the amount of voice and data communications cabling presents challenges for airflow and space management in building risers and plenum spaces. The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) has declared that excessive cabling is also a fire safety hazard that creates an...
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The walls have ears: Warrant granted for Amazon Echo recordings — RT America

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In fact, police seem to have already relied on his smart meter that measures electricity and water usage. Police found that on the night of the murder, Bates used roughly 140 gallons of water between 1:00am and 3:00am. Investigators believe that this could be a sign that he had used water to wash away evidence of what happened on his hot tub patio, Engadget reported.Regardless of what’s discovered...
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