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IoT gets fit in the Internet Of Gyms

The Internet of Gyms (IoG)

From monitoring services for gym owners, to virtual running courses for gym goers, or the ability to pick up Netflix right where you left off at home on your running machine screen – it’s all part of the Internet of Gyms…

Imagine a world where you’re at the gym walking by a piece of equipment. As you walk by, an alert pops up on your phone telling you to use that equipment and exactly what to do on it, all based on your personal fitness goals. Now stop imagining and realize that this is all a possibility right now.

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The 5 biggest markets the IoT is poised to disrupt

IoT Battlegrounds Infographic

Consulting firm Bain & Company recently published a new report that focuses on “the major emerging battlegrounds” in the IoT that enterprises need to be aware of. Mike Wheatley at SiliconANGLE takes a look at these battlegrounds;

  • Consumer IoT
  • The Industrial Internet
  • Networking
  • Real-time Analytics
  • Self-driving Cars & Robots

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One chip to rule them all? The Internet of Things and the next great era of hardware

IoT chip - the new era of hardware

The focus for chip makers is moving from the smart phone to IoT. TechCrunch takes a look back at the history of the circuit board and how the IoT will reshape the technology hardware industry.

But there’s a new game in town. The smartphone era is not over, but the growth rate is slowing. The key growth driver in hardware could soon be the Internet of Things. Over the next decade, this industry will churn out tens of billions of connected sensor devices. These will be used in every corner of the world — from highways to arteries — to gather new insights to help us live and work better.

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BMW’s vision for a world of connected cars

BMW’s vision for the IoT car

Although the connected car in the IoT space is still in its infancy, Brandon Butler at Network World, imagines what life will be like in the not too distant future according to car giant BMW’s vision.

The conversion of the Internet of Things with the automotive industry will create a world of cars that integrate with a connected home, drive themselves and are at your beck and call. This is the future, as outlined by BMW.

Read the full article on Network World

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Gartner selects Afero as a ’Cool Vendor’

Security is on everyone’s minds in the world of IoT. Afero offer a secure Bluetooth Smart module that can be easily embedded in IoT products, as well as an entire IoT Platform solution for developing and deploying the next generation of connected devices. Gartner have recently profiled ‘Cool Vendors’ who can help  “CIOs, IT leaders and decision makers build IoT solutions”; Afero was one of them…

Today Afero, the platform bringing secure connectivity to the Internet of Things for both enterprises and the home, announced it has been named a “Cool Vendor” by Gartner in their May 6 report “Cool Vendors in the Internet of Things 2016.” The report evaluates new and innovative vendors, products, and services in the IoT market.

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Get your hit of nature inside your home or office with NaturePod

The IoT brings you virtual nature with the NaturePod

Feeling stressed in your high powered city job? Fancy getting back to nature? Well now you can – in your lunch break – with NaturePod, a revolutionary new way to deliver nature to the workplace. Sad, insane, or the future? Let Lloyd Alter over at TreeHugger help you decide…

Our independent investigators have verified that a ten minute daily exposure in NaturePod™ Solo equates to the restorative impacts of an hour-long walk in nature – an ROI of 6X on what nature provides unaided.

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How the Internet of Things is changing what you eat

Surprisingly, agriculture is doing more for IoT innovation than many other industries. Rick DelGado at TECH.CO analyses the key points of a VentureBeat report on IoT and the agriculture industry, and also tells us how the IoT is helping bees in the fight against colony collapse disorder (CCD).

Every acre of land dedicated to food productivity needs to achieve maximum yield. To accomplish that, farmers are experimenting with wireless, cloud-connected systems that automate operations and provide real-time monitoring and data analysis for smart decision making.

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The Internet of smart packaging?…

Cate Lawrence looks at how smart packaging has arrived, from advertisements incorporated into disposable coffee cups, to embedded food expiry dates to help reduce food waste, it’s a potentially massive market for the IoT.

Consider the number of the packaged products in the world, and that the possibility that each could be interactive either within the supply chain as part of the manufacturing process or as a retail product that interacts with the retailer and/or consumer.

All of a sudden the size of the Internet of Things (IoT) becomes unimaginably big…

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10 billion items of connected clothing… within 3 years

A partnership between Avery Dennison, a global leader in branding, labelling and RFID solutions, and Internet of Things platform EVRYTHNG could lead to 10 billion products in the apparel, accessories and footwear market being individually digitally connected within three years. Rachel Arthur explains.

Essentially our physical wares will come with digital applications accessible via our phones. We will indeed be able to find our shoes when we’ve lost them, but also do such things as figure out how to wash clothes properly, look for style tips on how to wear items, even search for how to buy a new version of the same piece.

Read the full article on Forbes