I try not to speak much about my wife in my blogs, as she doesn't normally like it. However, this one was kind of funny... I was doing some research on "dead reckoning" for this blog and she thought I was looking up a movie review. I laughed at it (as she doesn't always understand […]
M2M and IoT Blog by Larry Bellehumeur
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Some interesting and sometimes 'frivolous' Consumer IoT products
\n\t I am not one to criticize people buying IoT products for things that might not totally be necessary to improve your life. Considering the overall increase to IoT spending helps a company like Novotech, why would I? More importantly, I have blogged a lot about how I have personally used M2M to improve my […] -
Can a mobile app replace a personal trainer?
The other day, I was watching a gentleman try to train his dog to bring him a bottle of water from a cooler in the park. No, I am not kidding, and no, I have no idea why I was watching this. Two things amazed me...first, the dog was pretty much doing it, and second, […] -
The Battle to Standardize IoT Heats Up
I heard a funny comparison the other day when someone asked about the fight between two well-backed efforts to standardize IoT. The comment compared it to “VHS vs. Beta, only on a much larger scale”. At first glance, one might wonder….how can you compare the impact of a standardization in the Consumer video world to […] -
Yawn...IoT predictions
You would think that I would be a huge fan of closed systems. I mean, I love Apple, and they are the biggest closed technology system on the planet. Steve Jobs used to talk about how companies needed to make both the software AND the hardware in-house to make things run smoothly. The result is […] -
Cisco makes a big move into IoT, eh?
Submitted by Larry Bellehumeur on March 11, 2014 - 11:02am In case some of you don’t understand the joke in the headline, it refers to how Canadians have a horrible habit of adding “eh?” to the end of many sentences, turning statements into questions. Funny thing is that I don’t even realize that I am doing it most […] -
Why M2M takes Big Data to new heights
I read a great article (trying to find it, to give it its proper due, but have been unsuccessful) that outlined some of the ways that US retailers are using big data to better target particular groups of shoppers. The group they were targeting here might surprise you.....the “late night Dad”. When the drug store […] -
Giving consumers the power to "jolt" their brain...what could go wrong?
Back in college, as a way to make money to pay for tuition (and maybe the odd beer), I used to work a weekend security job on the overnight shift. One of the biggest issues used to be staying awake all night....which I must now confess, I usually did not. There was only so much […] -
M2M: Just as sweet by any other name
M2M - The Industry Ok, that is a first – I have never used a quote from Shakespeare before. The title of this blog, in case some of you don’t remember your Grade 10 English class, is a play on Shakespeare’s line from Romeo and Juliet (“a rose by any other name would smell as […]