Category: IoT

  • The Google “Physical Web” Proposal and LID

    About ten years ago, I came up with that silly (?) idea that people could be identified with URLs. That those URLs could have particular functionality around them by which anybody — with the right permissions — could interact with them. And that, when people walked around with their mobile devices, those devices could broadcast…

  • Why Bosch thinks the #IoT needs to be open-source

    Matt Asay points to a key slide in a recent Bosch presentation: Here we have a $40+ billion dollar company, which concludes: 2-5 major IoTS platforms (in next 5-7 years) At least one of them will be Open Source Bosch not able to develop one of these proprietary platforms alone and customers/partners would not accept…