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The IoT as Farm Automation

By Bryon Moyer | March 23, 2018 | 0 Comments

[From the last episode: We saw how a single device could help shallow-pocketed farmers improve their farming yields] This time we’re going to stick with farming as an application. But, instead of discussing one device, we’re going to look at a whole farm that’s been automated in the UK, yielding […]

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Cloud

Cloud Frustrations

By Bryon Moyer | March 30, 2018 | 0 Comments

[From the last episode: The Hands-Free Hectare has completely automated the entire lifecycle of a hectare of barley.] This week we have one more random story before we return to our narrative. In this case, it’s about a rant from one of my colleagues. I also write for EE Journal, […]

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Hubs

Hubs in the Home – or Not

By Bryon Moyer | April 6, 2018 | 0 Comments

[From the last episode: Connections to the cloud aren’t always useful – and they’re occasionally frustrating] Before we look into how the different major IoT players work, there are a few more things we should get under our belts. This week, we talk about hubs. Hubs We’ve talked about the […]

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Megalab mine

Meglab: IoT and Mine Safety

By Bryon Moyer | September 7, 2018 | 0 Comments

[From the last episode: We saw how we could take mechanical motion and turn it into an electrical signal.] Today we take a break from the technical stuff and look at another industrial example of the IoT. We’ve already looked at a couple of farming ones (SoilCares and Hands-Free Hectare). […]

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Load balancing

Balancing the Load

By Bryon Moyer | February 1, 2019 | 0 Comments

[From the last episode: We looked at the request/response way of handling machine communications.] As we wind down our discussion on communications, there are a few straggling issues that also cross over into the computing area. Today we look at the notion of load balancing. This is a topic that […]

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