IoT: The Internet of Things Articles

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Ellen Glover Ellen Glover
Updated on January 21, 2025

What Is a Smart Home?

From automated lights to motion-activated door locks, smart home devices make your home, well, smarter.

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Carsten Rhod Gregersen Carsten Rhod Gregersen
Updated on January 17, 2025

More Endpoints, More Problems. Here’s How IoT Can (and Should) Fight Back in 2025.

Great growth demands great responsibility in IoT. Let’s make sure devices deliver on their promise without compromising our security.

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Margo Steines Margo Steines
Updated on January 17, 2025

8 Top Industrial Automation Companies

Industrial automation can enhance safety, efficiency and quality across a variety of industries.

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K. Scott Griffith K. Scott Griffith
Updated on December 19, 2024

After Cruise Ban, What’s Next for Autonomous Vehicles?

Fully autonomous vehicles encountered another roadblock after Cruise’s ban in San Francisco. Here’s what that could mean for the future of AVs and a potential path forward. 

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Jacob Biba Jacob Biba
Updated on December 13, 2024

16 Types of IoT Sensors Available Today

IoT sensors are integrated into devices that collect data on their physical surroundings, transmitting this data to the cloud via a mobile network. Here are some of the most common types of IoT sensors to know.

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Brooke Becher Brooke Becher
Updated on November 25, 2024

What Are Smart Textiles?

Smart textiles weave tech into traditional fabrics, collecting data about the wearer and their immediate surroundings.

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Brooke Becher Brooke Becher
Updated on November 25, 2024

What Is Starlink Internet?

Starlink, a network of low-Earth-orbiting satellites, aims to provide global high-speed internet coverage. Here’s how it works, how much it costs, where it’s offered and why people are using the service.

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Brooke Becher Brooke Becher
Updated on October 25, 2024

What Is Smart Dust?

These speck-sized sensors suspend in the air.

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Sam Daley Sam Daley
Updated on October 03, 2024

Blockchain and IoT: 10 Examples Making Our Future Smarter

How companies are combining IoT with blockchain technology to make the world a better-connected place.  

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Rose Velazquez Rose Velazquez
Updated on September 18, 2024

7 Smart Home Technology Companies

These smart home technology companies build connected devices and appliances to simplify household tasks.

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