"Economy at iot's best
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The Secura Halogen ingrared Turbo Convection Countertop Oven has made cooking a truely easy and enjoyable experience!!!  The food is tasty and the clean-up is a breeze.  The health factor was the selling point and at an excellent price.
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Best economy crash on market today... You won't be dissappointed, well made distinct sound..
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I have tried a number of hubs to take care of the home automation and security for my house, including Logitech Harmony, Mi Casa VeraLite, Philio, SmartThings, and Wink. Currently, I am mostly using SmartThings with 50+ connected devices.

(1) It has a very good user interface in the smartphones.
(2) It connects to IFTTT, which allows me to build additional rules.
(3) It supports both ZigBee and Z-Wave devices, which allows me to add devices to the network.
(4) It also supports cloud-based API so that other devices can be incorporated into the operations.
(5) It supports geo-fencing, which can turn the mode of the system automatically when my family members leave or return to the house.

However, the stability of the network seems to degrade after having more than 30 devices connected to it.
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This book introduces the reader to an almost utopian life. This time  we are truly participating in it.  It is a fascinating and riveting book.  We are observing the nascent of smart communities, the merging of digital, physical, and biological realms. Theses transformations alone are causing many different types of disruptions. This phenomena is also initiating many new industries with innovative systems to support existing productions. There will be winners and losers.  As you can see -- cars are becoming computers on wheels (Schwab, 2016, p. 64) Google, Tesla, and others are funding these new endeavors.  Just imagine the role that software applications will play in the new cars.  Small and agile corporations will survive due to size and agility.  However large companies will have to adjust by using their existing market presence and assets to take advantage of the new technological paradigm.

Mario Camilien, CISSP
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As a strong companion to his successful book about leadership at Amazon (The Amazon Way: 14 Leadership Principles Behind the World's Most Disruptive Company), John Rossman will open more than a few eyes with his latest book. We may still be at Day 1 of the IoT, but Rossman is already three steps ahead of us on the path.

While the Internet of Things is certainly at the heart of his discussion, far larger constructs associated with change and strategy are at play here. Rather than being dazzled by the shiny new toys that are inevitable with the IoT, Rossman's principles provide a roadmap for navigating innovation undergirded by solid organizational principles like customer service, relentlessness and urgency, systems thinking, and data informed decision making.

One specific commendation: Rossman's Part 3 (Identify and Map Your IoT Requirements) in the Conclusion provides a set of must-ask questions for businesses to post in their creative spaces and raise continuously at project meetings...consumers will also do well to ask themselves the same questions as the IoT continues to emerge.
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Easy to install.  Easy to test.  Convenient light ring for diagnostic status and a gentle night light.  It speaks to you - no confusion about what the problem is nor the location.  I plan to buy another for the other part of the house & they'll coordinate in an emergency.  It's heavier than other detectors, rather solid, so use the screws.  I also like the promise - the potential for the smart home and the IOT.
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Bruce does an excellent job of directing your thoughts away from all the cool technology and hype surrounding IoT by providing focus on what really matters to the customer: the outcome.  As someone with a computer engineering degree who has worked in manufacturing, project management, business development, and software development, I found this book extremely useful in planning my next steps in the IoT business landscape.  I love working on the technical side of things and still do application development with software and hardware.  The reminder to focus on the outcome has helped me redirect my energy in a more productive way.  My favorite quote is from page 17 where Bruce says You don't need to be a software or a hardware or even a data engineer to design IoT products; you need to be a value engineer.
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I think Smartthings as a brand will do big things for the home automation community. I bought the brain and it didn't work out of the box but I got ahold of support and they fixed me right up. I've had three kwikset locks that I paid $250/piece for a few years ago that were a big waste of money until i bought the $99 brain and got them to work via my phone app. great product with a bright future.
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I actually look forward to the automation part as i wanna know how to make money. its realistic and should be achievable with small capital. Tim Ferriss gave me the idea to outsource things, good read. apply what you learn
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Si quieres saber que es IoT este disertamiento es excelente. Me ha puesto a pensar y analizar como informatico hacia donde nos esta llevando la tecnologia. Recomiendo la lectura.
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After looking at a variety of hubs, I finally settled on the SmartThings and I couldn't be happier. First of all the community support for SmartThings is really great. Also as a programmer I find that the developer community is pretty strong and you can write configurations for your own "Things" if you feel upto it.

Setup is a breeze and so is connecting devices, any supported devices can be connected using your mobile application which I find extremely useful since you can install the device and then stand near the device to connect it.

So far I have several sensors, Z wave switches, two foscam cameras ( custom ), and a honeywell wi-fi thermostat ( custom) connected to this. Everythng works as it should. It was much easier than I thought it would be excluding the actual electric switch installation ( I chose to do this myself and it was a bit challenging ).
I am planning on adding more switches and devices as budget allows. Keep in mind that you are only buying a basic kit you will want to add more "things" to it adding to the budget.
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I tend to give a book **** stars when it should be read and ***** when it must be read. This book remains a good read even after the dot-com implosion. Perhaps even a better read afterward since the hype and frenzy are long since gone and the work can better live and die on its own.
Kevin Kelly, as founding editor of Wired magazine, has long been one of the new economy's chief advocates. In New Rules for the New Economy, Kelly tries to encapsulate the characteristics of this emerging economic order by laying out 10 rules for how the wired world operates. It is very well thought out and well written. A superb synthesis of new economy thinking. Right or wrong, it does a phenomenal job of putting forth the premises and substantive arguments that make the new economy such a provocative topic. Kelly manages to do this while maintaining a fluid and natural story telling style. Here is a representative sample excerpt:
"Communication is the foundation of society, of our culture, of our humanity, of our own individual identity, and of all economic systems. This is why networks are such a big deal. Communication is so close to culture and society itself that the effects of technologizing it are beyond the scale of a mere industrial-sector cycle. Communication, and its ally computers, is a special case in economic history. Not because it happens to be the fashionable leading business sector of our day, but because its cultural, technological, and conceptual impacts reverberate at the root of our lives."
This book both informs and, more importantly, inspires. Its powerful message has no doubt launched careers and changed lives. It will remain an important read for many, many years to come.
Kevin, like all good pioneers, has taken more than his fair share of "arrows in the back", but don't be mis-led by the naysayers, this one is the real deal.
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Thanks to some online tutorials and some of the reviews here I went from receiving this early this afternoon to having temperature and humidity readings (from a DHT22) uploaded to thingspeak.com every 20 seconds by this evening. Took a bit of playing around with but now I have an easy to build $16 wireless temperature sensor I can throw anywhere with wifi coverage.

This dev board makes it incredibly easy to play with the internet of things, and being able to code for it right inside the Arduino IDE (with Arduino libraries) is awesome. I couldn't be happier with this.
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Fifty Things that Made the Modern Economy (2017) by Tim Harford is a history of fifty very important technologies that have had a huge impact on the modern economy. It's a bit like James Burke's superb TV shows Connections and the Day the Universe changed but for the loyal listener set. Chapters from the book were first put into a podcast series that is also very interesting and well done.

Harford was a professional economist before becoming a writer for the Financial Times and then a presenter on BBC radio. He's written a number of books on economics and has now written this one looking at a range of technologies. He hasn't tried to pick the most important items, like the wheel, or light, because so many other people have looked at them. Instead it's an inspired list of varying items and the tales behind them.

The items include : The Plough, Barbed Wire, Robots, The Welfare State, Infant Formula, TV Dinners, The Pill, Video Games, Market Research, Air Conditioning, Department Stores, The Dynamo, The Shipping Container, The Barcode, Tradable Debt and the Tally Stick, The Billy Bookcase, The Elevator, Cuneiform, Public Key Cryptography, Double-Entry Bookkeeping and the Light Bulb. They vary considerably.

Each chapter is very interesting on its own and the whole is even greater than the sum of the parts. The chapters are also quite short and so the book can be read in nice short chunks if desired. Each chapter has extensive references as well so anyone who wants to go into more depth can easily go off and read books about the inventions.

It's really a great read and something that is really informative. Even if you have listened to the podcasts you'll also find more in the book. It's definitely one of Harford's best books and for anybody at all interested in technology or the impacts of technology it's highly recommended.
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Simple to configure. Its all done through the mobile phone.  Connecting new devices was a bit tedious but it gets easier as you get the hang of it.  It reports sensor data extremely fast and I am very impressed with its performance.

There are positive side effects to having the smartthings hub, I now know exactly when my network connection drops.

I am looking forward to purchasing additional sensors such as Leak, Light, and Vibration.
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I really enjoyed this book. Its very highly qualified author, David Pilling, engages his decades of economic knowledge and journalistic experience along with a big dose of creativity to set forth a brilliant analysis of the weaknesses of current economic thinking. He lays out the flaws in economic prognostication, giving a special emphasis to the inability of measures of GDP (as he explains, he uses GDP and the economy interchangeably) to provide reliable solutions to societal problems.

Essentially, the entire book expounds upon the idea that GDP does not reflect the real economy and often excludes elements and factors that are most important to us; all the while economists exercise excessive power over decision-making and priority-setting and our trust in their understanding of the state of things that matter is misplaced. As Pilling says, our definition of the economy is crude and bad at measuring progress, and we all sense that something is wrong. He points to political trends that give evidence that peoples lives are out of sync with the general idea that the economy is doing well. He also observes, and this is one of the concepts that interests me most, that One problem with growth is that it requires endless production and, its close cousin, endless consumption. we must be insatiable.

His journey through these ideas is enhanced by his physical journeys around the globe. He visits several African and Nordic countries, India, China, Japan, the United States, and others, both figuratively and literally. His approach is colorful, lively, and surprisingly light for such a dour and potentially lifeless subject. His solutions are pragmatic. They include incorporation of measures of happiness, which allows him to bring the readers attention to such institutions as the OECD and its Better Life Index. Of course, I was compelled to go to the OECD website, which I found to be full of relevant information.

The book is a delight to read. I highly recommend it to economists and laypersons alike.
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Excellent and comprehensive information.  Bruce spells out the details of what is needed for IoT in your enterprise.