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IoT Platforms for Dummies ebook

We are pleased to announce a new ebook made by thethings.iO‘s CEO Marc Pous and Blai Carandell about the IoT Platforms. We named it IoT Platforms for Dummies and we try to explain what is an IoT platform is and why a digital business needs to use an existing IoT Platform asap. Today is the […]

thethings.iO IoT Blinders Retailer Manager

If you sell your digital product via distributors and retailers, thethings.iO’s Blinders are for you. The Blinders tool provides privacy and security to your retailers and suppliers and all their network of sub-retailers. Let’s learn more! What is thethings.iO Blinders? Imagine you are a thethings.iO customer with smart lightbulbs you wish to sell to retailers such as […]

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IoT retailers need better privacy and security? Meet thethings.iO blinder for retailers

Let me tell you a true story. We have a client connecting their products to the Internet with thethings.iO IoT platform. Let’s say that they are manufacturing fridges. And they are the second-best company in the world. Nevertheless, they do not sell directly to clients, they sell through retailers. Some of them are industrial retailers, […]

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Create alerts with thethings.iO IoT platform

At thethings.iO IoT platform we love to give power to the IoT developers. This is the reason why since the very beginning we created the Cloud Code framework. The Cloud Code framework enables anyone to apply any algorithm on the top of the data, in real-time, every hour, every day or whenever. Nevertheless, a lot […]

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Tracking the coffee from production to the cup with Blockchain, IoT and thethings.iO

At thethings.iO IoT platform, we love to work with students. In this case, Carles was doing his engineering thesis at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) on a very exciting topic, Blockchain on the asset tracking coffee world. The necessity to improve the working conditions of coffee exporting countries combined with the high demand of this […]

Using Geofencing with thethings.iO

What is geofencing? Geofencing is a technology that allows you to create geographical boundaries and set up triggers based on location information. For example, you could send a message to someone when a “thing” has entered or left a specific area defined by your geofence. Some of the great uses of geofencing include location tracking, […]