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The Heat Is On & Helping Monitor the House
Heat sensing with personal devices is about to take off, according to an article in today’s Wall Street Journal. In the above interview, Rob Riordan, EVP and director of corporate development for Nsight, talks about using thermal technology to add more accurate detection to their home monitoring service. We caught up with Riordan at International CES…
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Building Blocks – Adding Value to the Internet of Things
Cable companies as value-add providers of data from the disparate Internet of Things is on display in the above CableLabs’ demonstration at The Cable Show 2014. Clarke Stevens explains the prototype they created that allows consumers to view the location of public transit buses on an app; an app that can live on multiple devices, including…
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Lights, Set-Top, Action
What happens when you mix a home lighting system with a set-top box? Clark Stevens of CableLabs demonstrates this unlikely convergence of the so-called Internet of Things and how CableLabs envisions being able to help cable operators create applications that marry these two disparate “things” into a better experience for the consumer (e.g. viewer hits…
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Managed Broadband TV – A Decade Old Overnight Success
Editor’s Note: The above video and the following notes represent what was presented as opening comments at the NTCA Southeast Regional meeting in Savannah, GA. The purpose was to set the baseline for a discussion regarding the latest developments in delivery of video services. Non-technical directors of telecom cooperatives were the target audience for this…
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How Cable Began – The Rest of the Story #Summit 21
Most people in the telecom industry are probably aware that the cable industry sprung to life in rural areas that were too isolated to receive off-the-air broadcast signals. No doubt, many have heard about the guy with an appliance shop that was attempting to sell TVs and had to figure out a way to bring the…
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“Rural America Is a Big Part of America” #Summit21
It’s one thing to talk about or even see pictures of rural America, but it doesn’t compare to experiencing it first hand. Last April at the ACA 2014 Convention, I had a chance to catch up with the lone Representative from the very rural state of Vermont. Interspersed in the above interview with Representative (D-VT) Peter Welch are some images captured…
