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...
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...