predjama castle, near postojna, notranjska, slovenia. a 16th century castle famous for its association with erazem lueger, a robber baron, like robin hood. In the rugged blue collar environment, vehicles, high valued equipment and other assets can be connected to the IoT to wirelessly report on their status, hours of operation, location, environment, maintenance and repair needs. This data can alert management when there is a problem, event or automatically create se...Apr. 18, 2015 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,679Sensing & Sharing the Physical World By Kevin BenedictWe spend a lot of time talking and writing about the IoT (Internet of Things) in the macro, as a giant worldwide network of objects and things, communicating with themselves and others. That is indeed interesting, but the most interesting components of the IoT, in my opinion, are the sensors. Sensors are defined as, "Devices that detect or measure a physical property and record, indicate, or otherwise responds to it." In the context of IoT, sensors detect or measure a physical property and then communicate the findings wirelessly to a server for analysis. Sensors are our digital fingers tha...Apr. 18, 2015 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,384Enabling Your IoT InitiativesBy Aria BlogJust to be clear, no enterprise, no matter how large, has all the capabilities in house to bring a complex IoT product or service to market without some outside help along the way. Take Nexia, an IoT service for running your connected home. Creating this offering required a number of specialized disciplines in areas such as device design, electronics, digital systems, application integration and ergonomics, to name just a few. Apr. 18, 2015 12:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,188IoT Foundation Service on IBM's BluemixBy Jayaram KrishnaswamyIBM recently boosted its support for its IoT Foundation Servic e by setting up a dedicated IoT business practice with funds totaling $3B. This will bring together clients, partners and stake holders to integrate dispersed sources, sensors, devices, business operations to glean real-time intelligence. This IoT ecosystem partnership will include The Weather Company that provides a strong bearing on anything related to weather on business.Apr. 18, 2015 12:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,195Your Data Lake is Both Just-in-Case and Just-in-TimeBy Jason BloombergThought experiment: let’s say your app gets a message from somewhere, perhaps from another app, but you don’t know from where. The message contains the number 47 but no other information. What should your app do with the message?