Patrick Burns
CEO/Co-Founder Haystack Technologies, Internet of Things tech pioneer, dad, coach, martial artist, sometimes mountaineer & jazz pianist. New hobby: K-12 education reform.
Can IoT Predict Earthquakes?
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...
Shopping in the LPWAN Market? Choose an LPWAN That Will Survive.
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...
Indoor IoT and Outdoor IoT – They Need to Become the Same
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...
Bluetooth for Geolocation? – A Tragic Misuse Shows Why this is a Bad Idea
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...
5 Reasons Why Synchronization is Critical to IoT
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...
