M2M and IoT Blog by Larry Bellehumeur

On May 29th, the White House announced the renewal of plans to impose 25 percent tariffs on $50 billion worth of Chinese goods. Just last week, the Section 301 tariffs were tabled while the countries negotiated. This link provides a comprehensive list of the affected products  https://ustr.gov/sites/default/files/files/Press/Releases/301FRN.pdf. The Trump Administration announced that the final tariff list will be […]

Hello and thanks for reading (or watching), One of the hottest trends in both consumer goods and technology is the smart wearables (namely smartwatches) that gather different biometric data.  These devices allow you to know about your heart rate, how you are sleeping and in some cases, more advanced metrics like your blood oxygen level.  […]

Hello and thanks for reading (sorry, no video on this one). Recently, the US Supreme Court struck down a previous federal law that prohibited sports gambling.  In a landmark ruling, the court struck down the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act which barred state-authorized sports gambling in every other state besides Nevada. What implications will […]

Thanks for watching (or reading), Ok, you’ve decided to add the power of IoT to your products or services.  You are looking forward to real-time communication, increased productivity for your team and a bunch of billing flexibility to differentiate your business. So, let’s get started. Hold up for a second…..you need to decide if you […]

Hello and thanks for reading/watching…. I think most of us spent a fair amount of time (maybe too much, actually) watching TV cop shows growing up.  Regardless of the show, one phrase was drilled into our heads on just about every one….”You have the right to remain silent”.  Whether it was from also watching the […]

Larry Bellehumeur | December 4, 2014 I always found it kind of ironic that cellular network providers are referred to as “carriers”.  For most of us, we grew up with our local postal delivery person being called “a letter carrier”.  The reason I find it ironic is that carriers (of the cellular kind), who offer […]

Watch our new Vlog post on youtube! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iDKAcd4_ao As someone who grew up in the 1980’s, I was a fan of David Letterman.  One of his favourite bits was his nightly Top 10 list.  The list was usually topical in nature and it brought some laughter to justify staying up that late.  Well, I can’t […]

**As a disclosure, I have been a Facebook shareholder since just after it went public** I think we all have grown accustom to a certain level of service… you don’t want your food served cold, you expect the dry cleaner to remove the stain and you expect delivery guys not to drag mud into your […]

Larry Bellehumeur | March 19th, 2018 Yes, I need help.  I am quoting Top Gun for about the 500th time in one of my blogs.  However, in my defence, this reference is actually justified, at least in my narrowly-focused mind.   In the movie, they mentioned how the idea of Top Gun was created to […]

By: Larry Bellehumeur | Feb. 26th, 2018 Based on the huge popularity of my last post, Top 10 business reasons to deploy an IoT Solution, we decided to do another Top 10 list. Traditionally, “SCADA” solutions (what we used to call IoT many years ago) were deployed by the Operations team and there was little, […]