DASH7 Wireless Sensor Networking Blog

“more data will be created in the next four years than in the history of the planet.”

via rww

Is GM turning a corner?

Time Flies? – Freakonomics Blog – NYTimes.com.

via Richard McManus … always fun to hear people talk about the sensor opportunity in terms of trillions of nodes … then again many of us chuckled when Bill Gates told us of a vision for a PC in every home.  This does give you a clearer view for why Cisco, IBM, Google, and other infrastructure players are taking this so seriously.

It’s interesting after having spent a number of years working on enterprise asset visibility/location to see the approaches taken by the web 2.0 crowd, which are lighter in terms of features, but far more intuitive and easier to install/use.  Plenty that the enterprise can and should learn from all this … Google Maps is already a popular component of many enterprise asset management-type apps and there are more features — from Google and others — that will find their way into the enterprise.

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Really? – Throat Exercises Can Relieve Sleep Apnea – Question – NYTimes.com.

A New Fundraising Method – Freakonomics Blog – NYTimes.com.

terrible news … I hope you didn’t click on the link to this that I provided

here is a fairly cohesive and integrated approach to the LBS market opportunity that isn’t purely consumer or enterprise and actually starts to point us to the convergence, in many cases, of the two markets and the lessons learned in the enteprise market that can be applied to the consumer market.

“Locating assets and resources is one of the most established categories of location-based services (LBS). People have been using GPS for navigation for decades. The military started using RFID to track the location of their containers almost 20 years ago. GM’s OnStar was launched in 1996, offering turn-by-turn navigation, remote diagnostics, stolen vehicle tracking, and a red emergency button that sends the vehicle location data and connects the driver to an OnStar call center. Over the past decade, GPS volumes have skyrocketed and prices plummeted so that now many individuals own GPS-based navigation systems as well. Now we are seeing many different types of asset tracking in hospitals, manufacturing plants, highways, railways, ports, distribution centers … really just about everywhere.”