Image via Autodesk. Autodesk’s Forge Fund is backing Israel-based Internet of Things (IoT) startup Jumper.io. Financial details of the investment were not disclosed, but Autodesk said that it’s part of a seed round of funding. The Internet of Things 10 types of enterprise deployments As businesses continue to experiment with the Internet of Things, interesting […]
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When you spend a lot of time with someone, their characteristics can rub off on you. But what happens when that someone is a robot? Recommended for You As artificial intelligence systems become increasingly human, their abilities to influence people also improve. New Scientist reports that children who spend time with a robotic companion appear
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In my last column, the takeaway sentence was: “We need to focus on our only assets, our people, to do our job.” This issue, I’d like to talk about “Their people;” the people who live and work in the connected environments our industries are helping to create. Satisfaction and Productivity of corporate assets — “their
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An article by Paul Lalancette, Sef Tuma, and Francesco Venturini, at Accenture. The potential for “connected homes” enabled by the Internet of Things (IoT) to become a major market opportunity is no longer in doubt. The benefits for consumers, such as controlling energy costs, increasing security and having a home that learns how to behave
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MobileIron is throwing its hat into the Internet of Things (IoT) ring with the announcement on Tuesday of a new IoT division that will focus on securing customers in the healthcare, energy, manufacturing and automotive spaces. Vice President Santhosh Nair will lead the charge in building out the new business, which aims to create an
REUTERS/Rick Wilking Verizon on Wednesday said that it will start offering “pre-commercial” 5G service to certain customers in 11 US cities sometime in the first half of 2017. The affected cities include Dallas, Denver, Houston, Miami, Atlanta, Seattle, Washington D.C., Sacramento, Ann Arbor, Bernardsville, NJ, and Brockton, MA. Verizon says it will choose customers for its
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The home security market is at the beginning of a boom that is being driven by technological advances. Growing crime and cybercrime rates are also driving the expansion in home security. The rise of internet-connected smart homes will intersect with the growing cyber security market, which is on track to reach $1 trillion by 2021,
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Enterprise mobility management (EMM) software provider MobileIron has launched a new Internet of Things (IoT) division in its company to help customers make more sense of their implementations across the entire technology lifecycle. The announcement, made at the firm’s analyst outing earlier today, puts more emphasis on MobileIron’s IoT play. The company cited a Bain
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MobileIron, which went public in 2014, has been known mostly for helping large companies manage mobile devices, especially in a time when people tend to bring their own. Today it announced it was expanding that mission to the Internet of Things. When you think about it, it’s a logical move for a company that is
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Dive Brief: A University of Southern California project using cameras and sensors to gather analytical data about student engagement and the intersections of teaching and learning is just one of a growing number of initiatives on campuses nationwide to harness the Internet of Things (IoT) to improve outcomes and create innovation within the burgeoning tech
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