Tag: IoT

  • RIoT Starts 2021 Off With Competitive Edge

    RIoT Starts 2021 Off With Competitive Edge

    RIoT is excited to provide a venue for experts to deeply engage on the intersection of 5G and Edge Computing. Competitive Edge: How Edge Computing Takes Business to the Next Level explores industry innovations that are unlocked by these new technologies. Speakers lay the groundwork for understanding this slice of the technological and business landscape.…

  • PivotSC Launches New Office Space in Greenville

    PivotSC Launches New Office Space in Greenville

    Mayor Knox White, City of Greenville, and Robert Fields, PivotSC, LLC CEO, officially cut the ribbon to celebrate Pivot’s new office and design laboratory on Friday, August 24. After touring the office and design lab Mayor White described it as, “very impressive and (a) great addition to Greenville.” The new space at 50 S. Richardson…

  • Want Smarter Cities with Smarter Startups? Try Durham’s Open Data Approach to Smart Government

    Want Smarter Cities with Smarter Startups? Try Durham’s Open Data Approach to Smart Government

    This is the latest contributor post from Tom Snyder, Executive Director of RIoT, a Raleigh, North Carolina-based network of technologists, engineers, business leaders, academics, policy makers, and entrepreneurs focused on growing Internet of Things opportunities regionally and nationally.  Data is fueling the fourth wave of the global economy. The Internet of Things, big data, artificial intelligence…

  • Are the Carolinas Leading the Next Industrial Revolution?

    Are the Carolinas Leading the Next Industrial Revolution?

    This is the first in a series of posts by Tom Snyder, Executive Director of RIoT, which brings together technologists, engineers, business leaders, academics, policy makers, and entrepreneurs, to capture and create Internet of Things opportunities across the region.  Historians point to three times that technology advancements have fundamentally changed societal quality of life and the…

  • K4Connect Teams Up With Garmin to Revolutionize Senior Living Community Wellness

    K4Connect Teams Up With Garmin to Revolutionize Senior Living Community Wellness

    According to a recent report from AARP, “Building a Better Tracker: Older Consumers Weigh In on Activity and Sleep Monitoring Devices,” older adults are highly interested in using technology to help them track and improve their own health. In fact, over 75 percent of participants in the study reported activity and sleep trackers to be…

  • 4 Industries That Are Set To Explode In The South This Year

    4 Industries That Are Set To Explode In The South This Year

    2016 was quite the year for co-working, SnapChat, online retail, and digital sports (and we’ll surely hear more about all of those from the likes of Casper CEO Philip Krim, Jet.com’s Liza Landsman, and the Atlanta Hawks’ Chief Creative Officer Peter Sorckoff at DIG ICON). Last year also laid a solid foundation for new developments…

  • An Internet of Things “riot” in North Carolina

    An Internet of Things “riot” in North Carolina

    The Internet of Things is causing a serious riot in North Carolina. It’s not a show of civil disorder, though. In fact, it’s quite the opposite. The meet-up group affectionately known as“NC RIoT” (NC Regional Internet of Things) brings together the state’s IoT talent and resources as they work to make the Tar Heel State…