To Move or Not to Move: Insights from CES 2020
Humans are designed to walk 12 miles per day, according to anthropologists. This dates back to when we roamed the Serengeti desert. Modern humans…
Innovation and the Inception of Itron Idea Labs
Nine out of 10 Fortune 500 companies in 1955 disappeared from the list by 2016. The average tenure of a Fortune 500 company decreased from 33…
Stranger Things at CES 2019
It is never boring at CES, from a technologies and products point of view. This year, I thought I would pay attention to strange things rather than…
What Itron Idea Labs Brings to Itron and the Industry
Nine out of 10 Fortune 500 companies in 1955 disappeared from the list by 2016. The average tenure of a Fortune 500 company went from 33 years in…
Figuring Out 5G
One of the main topics I heard talked about at Mobile World Congress is 5G— the next generation cellular. I tried to forget everything I know about…
Connected Cars Everywhere!
Cars everywhere. Some, are a very similar to the ones I saw at CES (see my previous blog, The Connected World and Autonomous Cars @CES 2017) while…
Itron Idea Labs Takes Barcelona at the Mobile World Congress
Among the more than 100,000 attendees at the Mobile World Congress 2017 is the Itron Idea Labs team. And alongside the mobile giants we are…
Why Itron Idea Labs?
I just got a Google Home – you know, the speaker you can talk to and it will play music. It tells me what the outside temperature is or what a cup of…
Leaving Las Vegas @CES 2017
It is day four at CES and almost time to leave. It’s the King’s birthday, my twentieth time at CES, during CES’s 50th anniversary, and a great day to…
In Search of Machine Intelligence @CES 2017
Day three at CES. I was on a mission to find machine intelligence, not a product but an ingredient technology. I was expecting to see it embedded in…
The Connected World and Autonomous Cars @CES 2017
Day two at CES was all about the cars—self-driving cars—a.k.a. Autonomous Vehicles (AV). AVs will change transportation as we know it by creating a…
Virtual Reality, Tech, Tools and Smart Energy and Water @CES 2017
CES day one. It’s been a crazy day of taking in the latest and greatest gadgets and technology in Las Vegas. As usual, I’ve geeked out as much as…
IoT at CES – More Than Just Buzz in the Energy Sector
CES 2017 marks the 21st year since the term Internet of Things (IoT) was introduced. Since it first appeared in 1985, we have seen a growing number…
The Internet of Things Generating a Buzz at CES in Las Vegas
It’s day three of the Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas, and as always it’s living up to the hype. From cool innovations in drones and car concepts…
Not only Smart but Active – Distributed Intelligence for IoT
In the developing age of the Internet of Things (IoT), we must stay attune to emerging technologies and industry transformations. What if real IoT…
Smart Grid Technology Applied to Industrial IoT
Over the past few years there has been increased interest in using technologies currently deployed in smart grids for Internet of Things (IoT)…