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Making a Dumb Steering Wheel Smart #CES2016
A steering wheel cover that provides feedback via the cloud to parents who want to monitor their kid’s driving habits is what made SMARTwheel™ a CES 2016 Innovation Awards Honoree. Its sensors can turn an older car from dumb to smart. More than monitoring, this cover is about providing a way to improve people’s driving…
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Measure Once & Cut Once #CES2016
Precise dimensions are critical for both DIYers and professionals in understanding the requirements for any sort of home remodel project. Stanley demonstrates a couple of different laser-based measurement devices that allow rapid measurement, as well as creation of internal maps. This is the type of device that will easily enable the generation of meta-data to create low-cost augmented…
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A Beacon to Improve Agricultural Efficiency #CES2016
Even before sensors and artificial intelligence turn farm implements into automated planting and harvesting machines, the so-called, Internet-of-Things promises to incrementally improve efficiency. In the above interview, Franz HÖpfinger of Fliegl Agrartechnik discusses the add-on sensor/transponders – Bluetooth beacons – they developed that turn “dumb” grain trailers into smart trailers, automating the weighing process, tracking…
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The Smart Home for 80% of the Population
The smart home business model is too expensive for up to 80% of the population according to Kevin Meagher. Speaking at CONNECTIONS™ 16, Meahger, SVP Business Development of ROC-Connect, believes the way to get to the larger market is to create a free baseline service that opens up the market for add-ons. He indicates that this is…
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Smarter Telecom Workers Through Augmented Reality #AWE2016
At least one telecom operator is using Augmented Reality as a tool to help its technicians be more productive. APX Director of Sales, Sean Wood, describes how the Dutch-based communications provider, KPN, is able to deliver information to smart glasses that allow a technician to see things like work-orders, product information and customers’ data with just…
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Gigabit to Businesses Big and Small
Melanie Murphy of AT&T talks about their relatively rapid rollout of a gigabit fiber network into Cupertino, the hometown of Apple. This Silicon Valley burg has a variety of businesses and Murphy talks about how the city of Cupertino realized the needs of the businesses and was instrumental in a relatively rapid rollout of gigabit…
