IoT in the Freight Industry
In this episode of the IoT For All Podcast, Himanshu Mehrotra, Vice President of Product Management at FourKites, joins Ryan Chacon to discuss IoT in the freight industry. The conversation covers how IoT and AI enable revolutionary shipping visibility solutions, such as real-time transport visibility platforms, the importance of IoT in providing real-time data and […]
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Grafana: Shining a light into Kubernetes clusters
Back in 2014, when the wave of containers, Kubernetes, and distributed computing was breaking over the technology industry, Torkel Ödegaard was working as a platform engineer at eBay Sweden. Like other devops pioneers, Ödegaard was grappling with the new form factor of microservices and containers and struggling to climb the steep Kubernetes operations and troubleshooting […]
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Interoperability at the Edge: How to Build a Modular Process Control System
In 2022, a global survey asked more than 2,000 IoT developers about the biggest barrier to IoT’s growth. Interoperability was the third most common response, with 22 percent of respondents naming it the major concern. This is where the need for building modular process control systems (PCS) comes in. Edge computing was also becoming a lot more common in industrial IoT. There were around 638 million edge-enabled devices in […]
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SQL at 50: What’s next for the structured query language?
In May 1974, Donald Chamberlin and Raymond Boyce published a paper on SEQUEL, a structured query language that could be used to manage and sort data. After a change in title due to another company’s copyright on the word SEQUEL, Structured Query Language (SQL) was taken up by database companies like Oracle alongside their new-fangled […]
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Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS)
What is the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS)? The Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) is a public framework for rating the severity and characteristics of security vulnerabilities in information systems. It provides a numerical score ranging from 0 to 10 to indicate the severity of a vulnerability, with 10 being the most severe. CVSS is […]
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Greece Selects Constrat to Deploy 7,000 Water Meters
Municipality of Parga selects Constrat to deploy 7,000 water meters in Greece with Sigfox Hellas to transform water management in Greece. The solution leverages Sigfox 0G technology, a leading Low-Power Wide-Area Network, to provide energy-efficient data collection, and sustainable water metering solutions for the benefit of communities and the environment. As a domain expert, Constrat’s decision […]
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KORE Appointed to Board of Directors for The Medical Alert Monitoring Association
The Medical Alert Monitoring Association (MAMA) announces the appointment of Dan Cebula, Vice President for Connected Health at KORE Wireless, to their Board of Directors. Cebula, along with five other new additions to the board, will help represent the needs of the medical alert monitoring and personal emergency response services industry. MAMA Board of Directors […]
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DuckDB: The tiny but powerful analytics database
Most people assume that analytical databases, or OLAPs, are big, powerful beasts—and they are correct. Systems like Snowflake, Redshift, or Postgres involve a lot of setup and maintenance, even in their cloud-hosted incarnations. But what if all you want is “just enough” analytics for a dataset on your desktop? In that case, DuckDB is worth […]
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UnaBiz Upgrades Sigfox 0G Technology, 18X Energy Reduction
UnaBiz, a Massive Internet of Things (IoT) service provider and integrator, announces performance evolution on Sigfox 0G technology, reducing device energy consumption by up to 18 times. The transformative enhancement aims to deliver a significant efficiency boost for Sigfox-based solutions, empowering developers, 0G Operators, and major customers alike. Central to this advancement is the integration of a 600bps data […]
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Visual Studio vs. Visual Studio Code: How to choose
For decades, when I got to work in the morning, I would start Microsoft Visual Studio (or one of its predecessors, such as Visual C++ or Visual InterDev), then brew tea and possibly attend a morning meeting while it went through its laborious startup. I would keep the IDE open all day as I went […]
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