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Bluetooth SIG plans to add new IoT capabilities

Stacey Higginbotham

The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) has a new focus on IoT, specifically on bringing connected Bluetooth shelf labels and tags to retail and other settings. Wiliot’s BLE tags harvest energy from power delivered by Energous’ transmitters. Image courtesy of Wiliot. And he’s not the only one.

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Podcast: What the heck is an IoT hyperscaler?

Stacey Higginbotham

We also see a new integrated DIY home security product from Google and ADT , which is a culmination of their $600 million partnership signed three years back. The ADT/Google start bundle which retails for $220. After extolling the potential benefits for Instacart shoppers, we then talk about smart tags and the concept of ambient IoT.

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I feel let down by Google’s Pixel Tablet and Charging Speaker Dock

Stacey Higginbotham

Announced today, the Google Pixel Tablet arrives in select markets with a $499 price tag. Google has also improved the Google Home experience with an updated user interface. And for some, this might be a better home hub than the prior Google Nest Hub products. All in all, this sounds great. Yes, it’s a tablet.

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Podcast: Smart home improvement is now a thing

Stacey Higginbotham

Commerce Department’s plans to combat the chip shortage crisis , new ML chips from Silicon Labs , Google’s first TinyML Coral microcontroller , and an Arduino-like RISC-V product. Two smart tracking companies raised some funding this week: Pebblebee on the consumer side and newly launched Tag-n-Trac for shipping and logistics.

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Introducing Cisco Cloud Network Controller on Google Cloud Platform – Part 2

Cisco CSR

In the scenario below, Cisco CNC will also translate security policies by combining cloud EPGs (Endpoint Groups) with contracts and filters into firewall rules and network tags in GCP. On GCP, these policies are translated into proper VPC networks, subnets, routing tables, peering, firewall rules, and network tags.

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Podcast: Return of the HomePod

Stacey Higginbotham

This week’s show kicks off with a discussion of Apple’s new HomePod , which has some cool machine learning capabilities and new sensors built into it, plus a higher price tag than most smart speakers. Then we talk about some deals in the enterprise and industrial sector with the $1.2

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IoT news of the week for July 28, 2023

Stacey Higginbotham

PTC ) Comcast adds indoor tracking devices for its MachineQ network : Comcast’s MachineQ Low-Power Wide-Area Network is adding a bunch of new tags that will operate on its indoor real-time location tracing network. There are tiny tags for handheld tools and larger weather-rated tags for monitoring pallets indoors and outdoors.