To kick-off the exciting developments in the field of in-the-car technologies, Audi announced a ‘piloted drive’ in an A7 trip from Silicon Valley to Las Vegas. The showcase journey demonstrates innovation in various types of sensors that are nearing production-readiness. Among the sensor technologies are long and medium-range sensors used in adaptive cruise control (ACC) and Audi side assist (ASA). The sensors feed the central computer with data on the vehicle’s surroundings allowing the car to make in-traffic lane changes […]
Continue readingMore TagAuthor: Dima Tokar
Dima Tokar is an analyst and co-founder at MachNation, the leading insight services firm for the Internet of Things, Internet of Everything, connected things, analytics and M2M. His primary areas of expertise are mobile marketing, product development and enterprise mobility, most notably in the Android and iOS ecosystems.
IoT Application Platform ScoreCard 2014
Update: MachNation has published the updated 2015 IoT Application Enablement Scorecard with 23 vendors. MachNation profiled 13 vendors in its 2014 IoT Application Platform ScoreCard. The IoT Application Platform space is one of the most exciting and rapidly developing pieces of the IoT technology stack. Buyers of IoT solutions and technology companies seeking IoT partners must understand this critical element of the technology stack and the best vendors in the ecosystem. Research for our IoT Application […]
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Earlier this week, Steve Hilton (@SteveHilton) of MachNation joined Cisco‘s VP of Emerging Technologies and Chief Demonstration Officer Jim Grubb for a Future of IT podcast. Jim and Steve discussed everything from IoT solutions and their impact on the bottom line and other key trends: mobility, cloud, big data, analytics and social.
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ARM, an industry leader in the microcontroller CPU space with 3 billion units shipped in 2013, announced today, a new addition to their Cortex-M Series product line. ARM’s new Cortex-M7 CPU delivers impressive performance gains over its predecessor, the M4. The performance gains enable the new processor to deliver a 2x improvement in DSP performance over the M4, providing native support for 7.1 channel audio and further on-device signal processing. For IoT devices, the processor enables more […]
Continue readingMore TagKey Criteria for MEAP Adoption: Manageability of the Platform
Over the last several years, MachNation has observed a rapidly shifting landscape in the Mobile Enterprise Application Platform / Mobile Application Development Platform space. We expect the evolution of platforms and applications in the Internet of Things and Internet of Everything ecosystem to follow a similar evolution to that followed in the application server space and the MEAP/MADP space. This blog series addresses some of the changes in the MEAP/MADP space to show some of the […]
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