Wed.May 08, 2019

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Why There Won't Be A 'Nest For Water'.

Varuna

With news yesterday that Google is finally figuring out how to fully integrate Nest products into its hardware suite of products (lovely ad below), I thought it would be a good time to dig into a thesis I have about the water industry. I believe the things that worked for Nest will not work for most of the hardware startups that are trying to ‘ catch lightning in a bottl e’ for the water utility industry.

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A Simple Guide to Communication Technologies for Environmental Monitoring

Ambisense

Understanding the major players in the Internet of Things Communications technologies can take time and brainpower. How do they relate to your environmental monitoring? What are the pros and cons of each? Here’s our Simple Guide to Communication Technologies for Environmental Monitoring. 2G Perhaps the most widely available telecoms protocol, GSM (2G) has been around .