M2M and IoT Blog by Larry Bellehumeur

For the past two months, my wife (along with millions of other parents) is doing her new day job: a 3rd and 9th-grade teacher. The kids are still doing a fair amount of work online through various platforms and seem to be maintaining some schedule. Like most parents, though, we are wondering how long this can continue as it is.  ...

I have written before about how much I am not a big fan of malls (or any in-store shopping for that matter). I usually know what I want, and, if available online, I will typically buy it. Based on trends over the past decade, I may be somewhat alone on this, as the percentage of people who shop has not...

5G is everywhere. It is not the actual network itself, as it is only available sparingly in some areas but instead, let's talk about how our lives are going to change. Who needs to go to a hospital when your doctor can operate from anywhere? Traffic jams?  They will disappear once we all have self-driving cars that talk to the...

Many Canadians have questions about the elusive 5G. Although other countries have had great success with 5G, we still haven't seen Canada take to 5G as quickly as many originally thought. Here is a brief article about 5G, what it is, and when it's set to thrive in Canada.   What is 5G? 5G stands for "fifth-generation technology" standard for...

As an avid follower of the stock market, I am always on the lookout for an early sign of a trend to make money. There have been some great long-term trends over the past few years, ranging from the move for people to eat healthier, the “greening” of the energy market and, of course, the move towards IoT and other...

When one thinks of construction, a lot of things may come to mind: cool pieces of large machinery, very tall cranes and of course, very hard-working men and women. One thing that you might not think of is technology, and that belief is well-founded. The construction and infrastructure industry has been routinely ranked very low in technology use compared to...

One of the most heated topics in the world of retail used to be, “should you use the automated checkout line?” Many people were adamantly against the use of them as they felt they were putting cashiers out of work. However, I am not sure that this is as much the case anymore. On my last trip to the grocery...

Watch our walkthrough video of all ports, LED lights and features on the LX60, as well as the contents in each box you'll receive after purchase.   LX60 Benefits   The Sierra Wireless AirLink® LX60 is the industry’s first LTE and LTE-M / NB-IoT router for commercial and enterprise applications. The LX60 offers: Superior coverage - LTE-M/NB-IOT Connects to...

The Terminal for Global Deployments Offering 12 Bands of LTE Cat.1, 7 bands 3G and Quad Band 2G, the PLS62WT Terminal facilities easy to integrate connectivity on globally deployed mature networks. Java for Fast Application Development Embedded Java eases and speeds application development, offering a broad choice of tools, reusable code, a proven security concept, on-device debugging and multi-threading. The...

Here's a link to the podcast of this article: https://iotms.podbean.com/e/special-covid-episode-5-the-nerds-take-over/   Larry - Scott, thanks for taking time out of your schedule to join us on the podcast. To start, many people listening are experts in using traditional landline-based connectivity for both their in-office workers as well as those working from home. First Question Aside from the obvious factor of...