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Software that keeps an eye on Grandma
Much of health care — particularly for the elderly — is about detecting change, and, as the mobile health movement would have it, computers are very good at that. Given enough sensors, software can...
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Strata Week: Political data mining “bait-and-switch”
Here are a few stories from the data space that caught my attention this week. Inaugural 2013 app takes as much as it gives The Presidential Inaugural Committee (PIC) launched the first official...
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Strata Week: The power of the Internet, wielded by machines and things
Soon, everything will be an Internet platform Ben Schiller at Fast Company took a look this week at a recent report by Jon Bruner on the industrial Internet. “According to Jon Bruner [the industrial...
View ArticleSoftware, hardware, everywhere
Real and virtual are crashing together. On one side is hardware that acts like software: IP-addressable, controllable with JavaScript APIs, able to be stitched into loosely-coupled systems—the mashups...
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More 1876 than 1995
Photo: Wikipedia Commons. Corliss Engine. Philadelphia’s Centennial Exposition of 1876 was America’s first World’s Fair, and was ostensibly held to mark the nation’s 100th birthday. But it heralded the...
View ArticleOobleck security
I’ve been thinking (and writing) a lot lately about the intersection of hardware and software, and how standing at that crossroads does not fit neatly into our mental models of how to approach the...
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Slo-mo for the masses
Edgertronic version evolution, from initial prototype A through production-ready prototype C. The connectivity of everything isn’t just about objects talking to each other via the Internet. It’s also...
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Death to the screen
You know the “Next Big Thing” is no longer waiting in the wings when you hear it dissected on talk radio. That’s now the case with the Industrial Internet — or the Internet of Things, or the collision...
View ArticleExploring software, hardware, everywhere
Last week, Tim O’Reilly and I sat down in San Francisco and had a conversation about the collision of hardware and software. The fact that digital entrepreneurs see hardware as part of their available...
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Toward an open Internet of Things
In a couple of posts and articles, we’ve nibbled around the notion of standards, interoperability, and the Internet of Things (or the Internet of Everything, or the Industrial Internet, or whatever you...
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What’s a tech company, anyway?
John Deere’s Field Connect system logs soil moisture data from probes installed in customer fields and transmits the data to a website for customers to access remotely. Uber has encountered a series of...
View ArticleWhy PayPal jumped the software-hardware gap
PayPal is a software company, but when I met with Josh Bleecher Snyder, director of software engineering at PayPal, it was to talk about hardware. He’s leading the development of Beacon, PayPal’s new...
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Extracting value from the IoT
Union Pacific uses infrared and audio sensors placed on its tracks to gauge the state of wheels and bearings as the trains pass by. The Internet of Things (IoT) is more than a network of smart...
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Talking to big machines
GE’s 3.2-103 wind turbine analyzes tens of thousands of data points every second and communicates seamlessly with neighboring turbines, service technicians, and operators.One of the core ideas we set...
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The next industrial revolution
If you Google “next industrial revolution,” you’ll find plenty of candidates: 3D printers, nanomaterials, robots, and a handful of new economic frameworks of varying exoticism. (The more generalized...
View ArticleFrom factory to data center: The O’Reilly Radar Podcast
Editor’s note: you can subscribe to the O’Reilly Radar Podcast through iTunes,SoundCloud, or directly through our podcast’s RSS feed. The Industrial Revolution had a profound effect on manufacturing —...
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Welcome to the age of indie hardware
Editor’s note: this is an excerpt from our new report When Hardware Meets Software — download the free report here. Download the free report.All trends rise and fall. A new generation of smart techies...
View ArticleWhat you need to know for the hardware-software convergence
As I noted in “Physical and virtual are blurring together,” we now have hardware that acts like software, and software that’s capable of dealing with the complex subtleties of the physical world. So,...
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We need an Internet that performs flawlessly, every second of every day
Editor’s note: this interview with GE’s Bill Ruh is an excerpt from our recent report, When Hardware Meets Software, by Mike Barlow. The report looks into the new hardware movement, telling its story...
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Embracing Java for the Internet of Things
Hardware and software are coming together in new and exciting ways. To get a better sense of this excitement, one need look no further than the nascent explosion of connected devices and technologies....
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