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Internet of Things (IoT): Rapid Deployment of New and Existing Replacement Sensors Drive Smart Meter Market

By Dick Weisinger

Deployment of smart meters is growing quickly.  Hundreds of millions of them have been deployed globally.  In the US there are more than 60 million smart meters.  Estimates are that more than one billion smart meter data points are logged…

Intellectual Property: Alice Ruling Limits Patentability of Business Processes

By Dick Weisinger

During the last two years “software patents” have become extremely difficult to obtain because of a 2014 court ruling called ‘Alice’.  Just taking a business process and reimplementing it in software isn’t enough to be able to claim originality and patentability.  These…

Technology: Wearables as a Platform

By Dick Weisinger

Wearables are slowly beginning to challenge the capabilities of smartphones.  For example, researchers at the University of Alabama equipped a jacket with 10 Raspberry Pi computers and a small touch screen.  The jacket provides a hands-free access to the cloud that…

Business Skill Gamification: Successes Enable Innovation and Greater Engagement

By Dick Weisinger

Business gamification — engaging employees in a way such that they learn or perform their jobs by playing games.  The idea is to turn a job into a game that can provide both engagement and motivation well beyond the incentives that…

The Device Mesh: Gartner’s Top Strategic Technology for 2016

By Dick Weisinger

The Device Mesh.  Gartner says that this is the top strategic technology for 2016.  Have you heard of it? The Device Mesh is a term that focuses perspective on the connections between devices and the internet, being powered by the…