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How to Build a Profitable IoT Product
The slides from my talk at the March 2024 IoT meetup in Stockholm, Sweden. I don’t think the talk was streamed or recorded.
In Ideas, Startups, IoT, Mar 30, 2024
Video: Don't Wait for the IoT Standard
My talk from the Emerging Tech Beat conference from 2020, so a few years old by now, and the sound has problems during the first few minutes, but interesting to see what has changed, ...
In Ideas, IoT, Feb 01, 2024
A Simple Way to Pitch Ideas
Pitching ideas is hard. This makes ideas die too early – even brilliant ones. Here is a simple way to pitch ideas, which I have chosen to call “Procosoco” despite it being a somewhat ...
In Ideas, Startups, AI, May 01, 2023
Device types and their roles in the Matter smart home standard
The Matter smart home standard is an initiative supported by major players in the smart home industry, including Amazon, Apple, Google, and Samsung. The Matter standard is developed b...
In Internet of Things, Matter, Mar 21, 2023
What is the Matter smart home standard and why does it matter?
Smart homes are becoming more and more popular. However, with so many different devices and protocols available, it can be tricky make all devices in a home compatible and to work tog...
In Internet of Things, Matter, Mar 20, 2023
The sentinel toothpaste: a useful programming technique for everyday life
Here’s one programming technique that I found very useful in daily life: the sentinel value. I use it pretty much every day – to manage toothpaste.In programming, a sentinel value is ...
In Programming, Just for Fun, Nov 18, 2022
Protothreads Receives ACM SenSys Test of Time Award
I am thrilled and honored to announce that the paper “Protothreads: Simplifying event-driven programming of memory-constrained embedded systems.s”, co-authored with Oliver Schmidt, Th...
In Protothreads, Awards, ACM SenSys, Nov 09, 2022
You should know: rand() may call malloc()
We discovered a weird bug deep inside our IoT platform that took us by surprise. The root cause turned out to be that the rand() function called the malloc() function.Now we want to s...
In Programming, Internet of Things, Apr 07, 2022
How to run a city-wide wireless network from a drawer
How do we test a wireless network that will be deployed like this:With a test setup that looks like this:The answer: MAC-level packet filtering. With a bit of software to help us set ...
In Internet of Things, Mar 31, 2022
This IoT Network Watches You Shop - Without Cameras
Online retailers know a lot about how their customers are navigating their virtual stores. Offline retailers are not so lucky.Together with Electrolux we built a system to help unders...
In Internet of Things, Jan 28, 2021
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