24.04.2025
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Modular IoT: Less Features, more Flow

In theory, you want the "best" tool. But in reality, yet another system in the stack means more integration, dependencies and more potential points of failure.
23.04.2025
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The Sorcerer’s Glossary: Finding Meaning in IoT

“Solution” is one of the most overused words in tech. In practice, it means any mix of products, services, and support designed to fix or improve something.
16.04.2025
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Forks: Why the Cult of Busy beats Business Strategy

A full calendar and a sprint board bursting at the seams. That must mean we’re crushing it. Right? No, this is the treadmill of corporate cardio.
11.03.2025

Ruggedized IoT Fasteners: Mountings + Bolts + Screws

The same machine (more or less) you use to send messages over the internet, those guys use, bouncing over a badly ploughed field, in the rain.
10.03.2025
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Human Factors: Decision making in the real world

Cross-functional training is a key element to a deployment. There is a natural reluctance to embrace new things. Knowledge empowers and dispels fear of change.
07.03.2025
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Swimming Cats: Municipalities and IoT

IoT companies that succeed with municipalities aren’t just technical ...no two cities have the same procurement rules, IT infrastructure, or political climate.
05.03.2025
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IoT Data Security: Three Headed Hydra

In the consequential world of access to data lakes, sensitive control points and site security, the hydra is a powerful metaphor.
27.02.2025
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Hardware: Mind is limitless, matter has constraints

Engineers know that certain connectors degrade, that certain adhesives fail under temperature swings and that vibration destroys solder joints.
20.02.2025
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Quality: How old is your SIM card?

He did what all experts do in such a situation; he wiped down and polished the SIM, cleaned up the PCB board ... electronics firing back to life on his screen