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New Look & Feel for thethings.io
We are excited to announce that thethings.iO has a new look & feel! 2022 will be synonymous of renewal at thethings.io. While some of you may have noticed that our logo has changed, that’s not the only new thing… After a lot of hard work put into design and development, we have given thethings.iO a […]
IoT platforms, what are they and why can they really help your business to grow?
An IoT platform is a set of services to collect, store, correlate, analyze and exploit data. A platform is therefore a set of APIs and communication drivers, databases, processing and calculation services and often a web service to generate visualization and exploitation dashboards. As a result, an IoT platform is designed to reduce the development […]
Industrial IoT trends in 2022
The global Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) market size was estimated at $216.14 billion in 2020. And by 2026, it is expected to reach $771.072 billion, according to Polaris Market Research projections. The rapid digital transformations that have occurred during the pandemics are among the primary drivers of this aggressive growth rate. IIoT equipment manufacturers […]
DNA of Things
The amount of data grows exponentially and being able to manage and store it is a challenge. The system called “DNA of things” designed by researchers Yaniv Erlich and Robert Grass allows large amounts of information to be stored in objects and faithfully reproduced in each copy. The starting point has been a nanoscale 3D […]
The Origin of IoT
The concept of IoT is generally summarized in that it is about turning everyday objects into sources of information that are connected to the network. But how and when did the IoT really emerge? The term has its origin at the end of the last century, specifically in 1999, when Kevin Ashton, director of Procter […]
HTTP with Quectel
In this post we will explain how to connect via HTTP to the Thethings.io platform through the Quectel M95. A high-performance and economical GSM / GPRS module, with which the Chinese manufacturer, Quectel, reduces the TTM (time to market) in addition to providing other connectivity options for IoT products. Step by Step tutorial For this […]