Andrew BraunSome smart cities see blockchains as a potential avenue toward empowering and connecting citizens and communities in some surprising ways.
Drone Delivery Services Want to Carry Pizzas, Packages, and Even Blood
If the current rate of progress on drone delivery services continues, a lot of things could soon be buzzing around over our heads in cities and rural areas.
The Internet of Trash Is Here to Make Your City Cleaner
If you think the street trash cans can’t be further improved, you just haven’t been introduced to the surprisingly large world of the Internet of Trash.
How Streetlights Are Making Cities Smarter
Streetlights play an important part in a smart city, as hundreds of millions of poles worldwide are being retooled to act as IoT data collection points.
Could Electric Highways Change How We Power Our Trucks?
Experiments run by Siemens have been successfully putting charging cables above highways so that trucks can connect and charge while they drive. Will we find this implement worldwide soon?
The Internet of Prisons: IoT Is Changing How People Do Time
Find out what kind of technology is being incubated in our prisons and how the Internet of Prisons might affect the broader IoT ecosystem.
Can We Power IoT Devices with Just the Energy Around Us?
The world around us is alive with energy – the question is how can we harness it? Can we power our IoT devices with just energy around us? Let’s find out.
Bizarre IoT Devices that Exist for Some Reason
Everything you own is gradually being put online, solving problems you didn’t know you had and making your life just that much weirder.
The Internet of Trust: Four Blockchains that Are Changing IoT
The emergence of blockchain makes it a perfect match for IoT products and solutions. Here are some of the ways that blockchains are changing IoT for the better.
How Long-Distance Wireless Power Will Change IoT
What if every electronic device could be charged using something like Wi-Fi? The rise of low-powered IoT devices can now shoot electricity through the air.
Intel Thinks IoT Devices Are Going to Get a Lot More Powerful
Future IoT development will be oriented towards using powerful new processors to do AI computing at the device level, which makes it a lot more powerful.
Why Is Blockchain a Disruptive Technology?
While Blockchain is still in its early stages, combined with IoT, it’s gearing up to be one of the most disruptive technologies in recent history.
How IoT Can Play a Part in Education
App-based class management systems and cloud-based learning tools are becoming more common in schools, and other IoT innovations are about to take place in the education sector.
Smart Glasses Never Actually Died
Many people might think smart glasses are dying, but the fact that companies have been rolling out their own smart glasses show they’re growing.
What Is a Smart City?
Smart cities aren’t all about flying cars and robotic sidewalk cleaners. They’re more mundane than that: improving traffic flows and reducing energy waste are just a few of the priorities driving the modern idea of a smart city.
Meeting the Need for Low-Powered IoT Sensors
The trick to keeping wireless devices running for years depends on a combination of low-powered IoT sensors and the right networking technologies.
Security, Privacy, Virtual Reality: How Hacking Might Affect VR and AR
As VR and AR becoming more popular, there could be some very real risks to security and privacy, even crossing the border into the physical world.
Flying Cars Are Closer than They’ve Ever Been
Dozens of companies are developing some form of flying car technology, and many prototypes have already been successfully test-flown.