When the PC brought computing to the desktop three decades ago, it began a revolution that’s led to a quantum leap in the speed and productivity in the offices of businesses and institutions. Today, ...

To ground the discussion about web services and RESTful interfaces for smart objects, we investigate Pachube, one particular real-world instantiation of a RESTful interface for smart objects. Pachube ...

If a smart object is set up to be recognized by the app—which currently happens using small codes you attach to the object, but would eventually just require you to point your phone or tablet at the ...

Smart manufacturing, Industry 4.0 and the industrial internet of things (IIoT) are discussed constantly in the manufacturing world. As you might expect, some of it's hype, but a lot of it is more real ...

If we’ve learned anything from post-apocalyptic movies it’s that computers eventually become self-aware and try to eliminate humans. BYU engineer Dah-Jye Lee isn’t interested in that development, but ...

The dream of the smart home is that every object in our houses can communicate with every other one. But as great as that sounds on paper, it’s not very practical. For one thing, it means replacing ...

South Korean tech powerhouse Samsung may be working on a Smart Tag object tracker if feelers from the European Union Patent Office (EUIPO) are to be countenanced. The craze for smart object trackers ...

To test their algorithm, the researchers designed and built a system of “smart pebbles”–cubes about 10 millimeters to an edge, with processors and magnets built in. [Photo: M. Scott Brauer via MIT ...