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Why the Built World Needs Standard APIs

DevOps.com

This is especially true for the built world—a term that refers to the human-made environment that provides the setting for human activity, including homes, buildings, zoning, streets, sidewalks, open spaces, transportation options and more—where monitoring […].

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Edge Computing: Use Cases, Key Providers, and Implementation Options

Altexsoft

The elegant solution to this challenge is shifting some tasks from powerful, but remote data centers to smaller processors at the edge, or in direct proximity to IoT devices. Edge computing is a distributed IT infrastructure that brings processing of raw data close to its sources, primarily — IoT sensors. Edge computing architecture.

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Official Intelligence

LeanEssays

A Killer App for IoT When devices are scattered throughout a physical space, controlling them by voice is a killer app for the Internet of Things [1] – but only if a simple control standard is embedded in every device. They reserve movie tickets, arrange transportation, find answers to questions. This turned out to be a good choice.