Just five years ago the pundits at Ericsson were predicting that there would be 20 billion industrial devices with built-in cellular connectivity by 2020. Other pundits jumped on board with staggering numbers of their own -- also in the tens of billions....
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Opportunity is Knocking; It’s Time To Open the Door
IoT Opportunities are knocking. Will you open the door and adopt? Or do you need to...
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Are We Ready for Wireless Meshes?
Tim Taberner, of B+B SmartWorx, looks at the traditional problems of using wireless mesh networks in...
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Just a few years ago I gave a number of talks that analyzed ideas first put...
Continue ReadingIoT on the Beach
Every company will migrate to industrial IoT at its own pace, deploying appropriate IoT technologies when...
Continue ReadingIoT Tech: The Universal Translator for the Industrial Tower of Babel
Nobody can afford to re-engineer their existing processes and machines every time they want to extract...
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The Internet of Things
The Internet of Things – Industrial Tools vs. Consumer Toys When people talk about the Internet...
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Temporarily escaping another interminable Midwestern winter was a treat by itself, and the 2015 M2M Evolution...
Continue ReadingThe Right Tool for the Job
For IoT you need new tools like Wzzard and new skill-sets, like “IoT-class” systems integrators who...
Continue ReadingIsolation vs Surge Suppression for Serial Communications
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Mike Fahrion
For 20 years, Mike Fahrion has been sharing his unique perspective on life, liberty and the pursuit of anything and everything of interest to an engineer. A master of M2M device connectivity, Mike has an insatiable curiosity in how everything is connected; people and places, machines and man, politicians and reality. He loves left field (he spends a lot of time there) – but you’ll find him funny, irreverent, thought provoking and always connected.
Tim Taberner
Tim Taberner is a frequent speaker and widely-published author on IoT topics, having been involved in this space since before the phrase ‘Internet of Things’ was coined. Previously, Taberner has held engineering, sales and marketing positions at Transmitton, Arcom Control Systems, and most recently at Eurotech.
Brian Foster
Brian Foster is new to blogging but definitely not new to talking about legacy devices and data connectivity. A former career submariner and Navy man, Brian brings an extremely organized mind, a willingness to work in a very small office, and a love of acronyms to his work. Check in with him and weigh in on what you think matters. Feel free to congratulate him on the 10 straight Navy wins in the annual Army/Navy game