The British telecoms regulator Ofcom has formally approved the deployment of white-space broadband technology in the U.K., following trials. White space broadband…
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Investors throw $115M at French IoT network outfit Sigfox
Sigfox, the French startup that’s rolling out an international internet-of-things network, mostly by partnering with local network operators, has scored a massive…
Read MoreQuietyme seeks to track and tame noisy nurses and neighbors
Noise is a significant problem in hospitals, costing them patient satisfaction and possibly dollars now that certain payments are tied to satisfaction…
Read MoreApple spotted driving sensor-equipped vehicles in the Bay Area
San Francisco CBS affiliate KPIX has been following a mysterious minivan tooling around Concord, California, with a roof rack fool of advanced…
Read MoreConnected canine outfit Whistle buys competitor Tagg, raises $15M
When Whistle first came on the scene with in 2013 with its dog activity monitor, there was already an established player in the…
Read MoreDeclining sensor costs open up new consumer applications
One of the factors in the growth of the Internet of Things (IoT)—the networking of the physical world within existing Internet infrastructure—is…
Read MoreUS Cellular gets into the connected home biz
Regional mobile carrier US Cellular announced a new home automation and security service called OnLook, which looks to be aimed squarely at…
Read MoreWunderBar sensor kit gets notifications app for broader appeal
The open-source WunderBar kit is a distinctive attempt to get app developers to shift their attention to the internet of things. It…
Read MoreThere’s an opportunity for tech in the EPA’s proposed smog rule
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency wants to tighten the rule for regulating ground-level ozone, or smog, a move that regulators hope will spark new technology development to reduce emissions.…
Read MoreZendrive wants to help on-demand car services find better drivers
Quantified driving Zendrive doesn’t just want to grade our own behaviors behind the wheel, but also those of the taxi drivers and car-sharers that chauffeur us around our cities.…
Read MoreThe internet of things isn’t producing a data deluge … yet
It might seem like the world is awash is in connected devices, but we haven't seen anything yet. But the companies storing data from all those sensors say they're not worried about how much there'll be as much as about making it easy to use.…
Read MoreSee how a Brooklyn nonprofit is using the internet of things for environmental justice
A Brooklyn nonprofit has launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund air quality monitors that it hopes to deploy around the country to get people involved in reducing pollution.…
Read MoreMicrosoft Health platform launches with payments-friendly, $199 Band wearable
Microsoft Health works with Windows Phone, Android and iOS devices. Much of it is based on Microsoft's cloud-based "intelligence engine", and the company wants startups to build health-related services around it.…
Read MoreTelefónica will build a hub to extend the functionality of its Thinking Things sensor platform
The hub's development is only on the Spanish carrier group's to-do list, so there are scant details right now, but it will handle the fixed lighting and heating that Thinking Things can't yet control.…
Read More‘A journey of culture’: Getting buy-in from employees to track their movements
If hospitals can convince nurses, doctors and other staff to track their movements, everyone -- patients included -- stand to win. At Structure Connect, a hospital executive explained how her institution got staff on board and some of the insights they've discovered as a result.…
Read MoreWeatherSignal starts tracking pressure on iOS using the iPhone 6’s barometer
Weather tracking isn't just Android owners any more. OpenSignal has made its crowdsourced climate-monitoring app available on iOS though only iPhone 6 and 6 Plus users can take measurements.…
Read MoreHow biosensors could put a smartphone at the center of 21st-century medical care
Biosensors are on the verge of changing the way we use our smartphones to investigate the world around us.…
Read MoreWeightless SIG shelves white spaces, but it has new internet-of-things spectrum in mind
TV white spaces haven't emerged as global networking band like Weightless had hoped. So now it's planning to build its internet-of-things connectivity network on the same industrial bands used by ZigBee, Z-Wave and Sigfox.…
Read MoreGarbage-measuring sensor firm Enevo pulls in another $8M in funding
The Finnish company offers waste collection firms volume and temperature sensors that go in their bins, then manages the resulting data to optimize collection routes and times.…
Read MoreWe will drown in sensors before we ever build a true internet of things
As much as we like to think of the internet of things as something linked by standards, it will be a hodgepodge of trapped sensor data for quite some time.…
Read MoreData is meaningless until you’re focused on the user and the bottom line
The promise of the internet of things is in cheap data, but we need to turn that data into insights to make it useful. And before we do that, we need business models for sharing data.…
Read MoreSensors, sensors everywhere (but especially in the fields): FarmLink raises $40M
A company called FarmLink has raised $40 million in equity capital to further its business of analyzing sensor data to determine how much food a field can ideally yield. It's just the latest in a string of investments at the intersection of agriculture and data.…
Read MoreThe Gigaom Interview: Max Levchin on data, sensors and building the future of finance
Part of the original "PayPal Mafia" and also formerly of Slide, Max Levchin has made a return to financial services startups with his newest venture, Affirm.…
Read MoreWall Street meets hippies as green energy turns into big business
Think Wall Street is just about money? A recent trip to the heart of New York's financial district shows a paradise of urban planning springing up.…
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