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How Can You Make Video Relevant? #TIS18
“How can you make video relevant,” asks Tom Whitaker Senior Vice President of Shentel. He answers his own question by suggesting that operators need to find different ways to add value to the video product, including having features like whole home Wi-Fi and whole home access to video content. Whitaker brings his take on…
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Satellite Texting Without a Subscription #CES2019
[Added 8/26/22 – It appears that the FCC’s order opening the 5.925 to 6.425 GHz band meant the end of Sat Paq. Rob Reis writes on Higher Ground’s website that the service will be discontinued by September 2023.] The ability to send an emergency text with GPS location information is what Higher Ground offers with…
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Educating The Wannabe Cord Cutter #CES2019
Parks Associates reported in their December 2018 study that 13% of U.S. households have already fired their traditional pay television providers. FlexVU aims to grow the number of cord-cutting households. As explained by Anselmo Pilla, Senior Director of Marketing of Pixelworks, FlexVU is an ad-hoc consortium of companies with a goal of educating consumers as…
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The Self-Contained IoT Weather Station for Precision Agriculture #CES2018
Understanding and reacting to the weather can be the difference between a profit and loss for a farm or orchard. Arable displayed their solar-powered, self-contained weather station, the Arable Mark, at CES2018, which provides a farmer with an understanding of multiple parameters on their farm and not what is happening at someone else’s weather station.…
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The One-Minute Smart Home #CES2018
Retrofitting a home to become smart without the use of tools and with minimal effort and time is the goal of Switchmate. Switchmate CEO Dean Finnigan demonstrates several of their SimplySmartHome products, including smart light switches, doorbell sensors, and wireless (i.e. no power wires) high definition surveillance cameras at Showstoppers at CES2018. Finnigan was also…
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The Pocket Digestive Analyzer #CES2018
Understanding the impact of diet on health is challenging as it is difficult to easily and regularly quantify the interaction of foods within the digestive system. FoodMarble hopes to change that with its innovative device that detects and analyzes the composition of one’s breath to help individuals and their doctors understand and diagnose issues people…
