The Power Dynamics of IoT
The Measurement Minute with Gary Angel With great power comes great...power demand. Why the desire for edge-based compute power is double-edged sword. Almost every IoT installation has t...
Compute Power on the Edge
The Measurement Minute by Gary Angel The biggest change in Edge-based computing is the type of development that the new generation of SBCs and SOMs allows. Bottom line is that they make ...
SOM vs. SBC in IoT (sheesh!)
The Measurement Minute with Gary Angel It may be an acronym trifecta, but understanding the difference between a SOM and an SBC is one of the first bridges you'll have to cross to IoT la...
Getting Edgy – An Introduction to IoT Computing
The Measurement Minute by Gary Angel Technologies are only really interesting after they've passed through their time on the hype cycle. Here at Digital Mortar, we tried as hard as we co...
The McNamara Fallacy and the Cynicism Behind Bad Metrics
The Measurement Minute by Gary Angel Sometimes bad metrics just fool us. But often, the people using them have entirely cynical reasons for glomming onto the really stupid ones. Credit Y...
The College Board’s (SATs) New Adversity Score
The Measurement Minute by Gary Angel The College Board, purveyors of the SAT, recently added a proud new edition to their reporting: the Adversity Score. Reading about how it works put m...
Solving the Display Interaction Problem
The Measurement Minute with Gary Angel Shopper journey measurement is like most analytics. When you start to answer basic questions with the data - deeper ones immediately pop-up. And wi...
The Optical AI Revolution
The Measurement Minute with Gary Angel Store Measurement with camera has been challenged by the cost and the capability to follow shoppers from camera to camera. Edge-based AI coupled wi...
ML Model Coherence
The Measurement Minute by Gary Angel When you use human annotation or data factory techniques to create ML training data, there's always a risk that your training data won't match the re...