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And It’s a Wrap… For Now

By Bryon Moyer | May 7, 2021 | 0 Comments

[From the last episode: We reviewed what we’ve covered in our series on energy.] And with all of that, this series on Inside the IoT is coming to, well, not an end, but a slower pace. We’ve covered a ton of stuff, looking at: What the IoT is The four […]

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When It’s Safe to Do It Again

By Bryon Moyer | February 8, 2019 | 0 Comments

[From the last episode: we saw how load balancing helps servers keep up with high traffic demands.] Today we give you a million-dollar new vocabulary word (with an extra bonus if you already knew it). Before we give it away, however, let’s run through a couple of scenarios to illustrate […]

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Review and Summary

By Bryon Moyer | September 14, 2018 | 0 Comments

[From the last episode: Meglab uses IoT technology in mines to keep miners safer, keep track of equipment, and manage ventilation.] OK, we’ve covered a lot of ground since May. Let’s take a big breath and review! We took a quick detour to look at an Alexa bug that ended […]

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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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Accelerometers

By Bryon Moyer | August 10, 2018 | 0 Comments

[From the last episode: A full sensor contains the basic transducer plus circuitry to clean things up and, usually, convert to digital.] Here we take a look at our first real sensor: the accelerometer. Like the name suggests, it measures acceleration. This was actually the first sensor application to be […]

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