The wearables market is a subset of the Internet of Things, and we here do try to stay away from talking about IoT because it's such a huge topic. But the Energy Harvesting Journal has made an interesting attempt to illustrate the IoT ecosystem -- and, as a result, find a place in it for wearables. The publication separates the IoT world generally into three groups: a … [Read more...]
Top IoT Vendors to Collaborate on Standards
We sometimes forget how miraculous it is that our technology talks to each other. The ability to hook a computer to a network, or Skype to a landline, is not preordained. It takes interested parties to sit together and set standards. The "Internet of Things" is a great idea, but suffers mostly from being an endless series of data islands. A dishwasher can talk to the … [Read more...]
Intel to Target Wearables, IoT With New Business Group
For those of you who keep track of such things -- and it is important -- know that Intel has formed an Internet of Things business group. The IOT Solutions Group will have products like the new low-power Quark processor and its Atom chips for embedded systems. It will be headed by Doug Davis, who ran Intel's embedded chip group. He'll report to CEO Brian Krzanich and … [Read more...]
A Wearables Taxonomy, and Where It Falls Short
Stained Glass Labs, an incubator for wearable tech startups, has put together an interesting taxonomy of the wearables and the Internet of Things industry as it currently exists. This is the accompanying infographic. We've written about a lot of these companies, and it's a pretty well-thought out list as far as it goes. But where this taxonomy falls short is that it doesn't … [Read more...]