In today's Internet of Things, landscape allowing devices to communicate efficiently and effectively is key and as a part of allowing IoT Devices to do so, a message broker system is needed. What's a Message Broker? The purpose of a broker is to take incoming messages from applications or IoT Devices and perform some action on them. A message broker is an architectural pattern for message validation, transformation, and routing. It mediates...
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What is a BLE "Beacon"? First off, what is a beacon and how do they work? I like to use the analogy of a lighthouse, a beacon has one simple purpose, and that is to send out a signal and say I am here. It's completely unaware of any mobile devices that are around it, it doesn't connect or steal their data. The beacon just sends out...
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The ongoing increase in energy consumption along with rising operational costs and shrinking budgets makes building management one of the topmost concerns for building owners. Managers need insight and understanding of how their buildings work, when is the peak time and what utilities are being used. Manually tackling these issues is an arduous, as well as, dated task. In large sites, such as shopping malls, office...
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Echolo helps create solutions to monitor expensive capital assets and use that data to improve efficiency, drive better performance and enable innovation. Based on Microsoft Azure Internet of Things services, the solution collects, integrates, and organizes sensor data from remote equipment across global supply chains to support real-time insight, predictive analytics, and preventive maintenance. We focus on delivering effective solutions that reduce cost and have a real ROI...
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The Internet of Things has numerous applications in healthcare, from remote monitoring to smart security and medical device integration. It has the potential to not only keep patients safe and healthy but to improve how physicians deliver care as well. Healthcare in IoT can also boost patient engagement and satisfaction by allowing patients to spend more time interacting with their doctors. Whats holding the Healthcare industry back? While...
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