Patrick Burns

“All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.” - Baruch Spinoza TL;DR: Mobile IoT needs GPS GPS is traditionally not low power Getting GPS right with low power requires a tricky...

Last week, Armis Labs identified a new attack vector, dubbed "BlueBorne", that targets any device with Bluetooth capability. This includes mobile, desktop, and IoT — accounting for roughly 8.2 billion devices across Android,...

My seventh-grade son, Brendan, is basically familiar with what Dad does for a living — helping companies bring IoT products to market. He gets the basics of how the technology works...

I recently came across a new report, Survival of the Timeliest-Can Unlicensed LPWA beat NB-IoT?, with conclusions about the LPWAN market. Two things caught my eye: 1. There can be only one...

Two IoT Arenas Companies competing to sell you their wireless IoT connectivity technology can be thought of as competing in one of two separate “arenas”: an indoor arena or an outdoor arena. The Indoor...

In a recent, tragic case, a Bluetooth tracker that was advertised as having a wide area geolocation capability has failed to locate a lost Alzheimer’s patient after 17 days. 17 days...

Unless you're a networking nerd, synchronization is probably more familiar as a term used with wristwatches or iTunes than as an IoT term, but the future of the IoT may actually...