Just Because It’s Old Doesn’t Mean It’s Right
The Measurement Minute with Gary Angel Traditional opinion research and even Website surveys have been around for quite awhile now. So folks in the enterprise take their accuracy for gra...
The Impact of Store Measurement Technology on Shopper Sample
The Measurement Minute with Gary Angel The two main IoT technologies for shopper measurement are video and electronic sensors. They perform very differently and have very different chara...
Building a Thoughtful Store Sample
The Measurement Minute with Gary Angel Given that it's often too expensive to install IoT-based people measurement fleet-wide, the challenge becomes deciding which stores to measure. Tha...
We are always Sampling
The Measurement Minute with Gary Angel Sampling is a fact of measurement life. Even when we aren't consciously doing it, we're probably sampling. And it is the nature of sampling (even w...
IoT Security and Other Oxymorons
The Measurement Minute with Gary Angel Device security in IoT is notoriously problematic. Some of this comes from absurdly bad practice including web-connected devices running Linux vari...
The One IoT Headache Everyone Shares
The Measurement Minute by Gary Angel When you put devices in the field, you open up a whole Christmas-tree full of boxes of IT problems. There is nothing - and I mean nothing - more frus...
Making the IoT Build Decision: Necessity is the Mother of Investment
The Measurement Minute with Gary Angel If adding edge-based computing is the equivalent of making a build vs. buy decision in IoT (and it is) and if build is MUCH harder (and it is), the...
Purpose-Built vs General Purpose Computing in IoT
The Measurement Minute with Gary Angel The difference between purpose-built IoT devices and deploying general-purpose Edge computing often involves you in decision that's kind of like a ...
Landfill or Goldmine? 42 Billion Devices and 80 Zettabytes of Data
The Measurement Minute with Gary Angel IDC recently forecasted that by 2025 - not too long from now - we'll have 42 billion IoT devices in the field generating 80 Zettabytes (yeah - I ha...