IoT
Keep IoT Simple, Stupid!
Innovation brings enthusiasm when you are making a product. Launching a connected device is hard and expensive. 2015 has been amazing at thethings.iO; we worked together with great projects and awesome people. The most valuable thing we discovered is that things must be more simple, from the UX to the most technological part of the projects. Inspired […]
SMS & Voice Calls from Twilio meet thethings.iO
Internet of Things is about monitoring, alarms, notifications, among other, then it’s important to get real-time updates and the best way to get informed it’s probably through phone calls and SMSs. The IoT platform thethings.iO integrated Twilio, the communication platform that leads the voice and messaging applications. Send SMS and make voice calls from your […]
Introducing the new thethings.iO
Ch-ch-ch-changes… It is as they say: the only constant in life is change. This is true in the technologized world we live in, and it is even more true when running a startup. If you want to change the world, you better listen to how the world wants to be changed. And as we’re on […]
Traveling made easy with IoT
Traveling can either be a terrible or an amazing experience. While some things like a turbulent flight or first class can’t be fixed by IoT, IoT can help make other parts of traveling so much simpler. Whether you’re a regular traveler racking up miles or only traveling for a family wedding every now and then, […]
How IoT will change Sleep
My life, just like everyone else’s revolves around sleep. If I get a good night’s sleep I’m up and ready for the day. If I get a bad night’s sleep I’m tired and grumpy until I get some coffee. The hardest thing about getting a good night sleep is figuring out what is wrong with […]
Analytics for Sigfox: meet thethings.iO
If you are an Internet of Things enthusiast, you must know Sigfox. In case you don’t, keep reading. Nevertheless, this post is not only about the incredible things you can make with Sigfox but also how you can integrate it with an IoT platform such as thethings.iO. What’s Sigfox? Sigfox is a cellular style telecom that […]
Connect esp8266 to the Internet at thethings.iO
The ESP8266 is a little board that can be used as an Arduino WiFi module using serial communication and AT commands. But since it features a processor, memory, GPIOs and much more, there are more interesting uses to it than a simple shield to connect your Arduino to the Internet. It can be used as […]
How IoT will change Schools
Just as the IoT is shaping the future of homes, sports, and music, IoT is going to literally shape the future it self! (…Because the children are the future…Queue the 1985 song ‘We are the World’) Schools will be managed in a whole new way. IoT is making a big impact on managing the school […]
thethings.iO at October 2015
October means lots of things: it represents the definitive goodbye to the summer, the celebration of the Oktoberfest in Munich, or the arrival of a new season in the technological field. More events, more posts, more work… more thethings.iO! So what’s this October bringing to us? First of all, we want to express our sadness […]
thethings.iO in ‘El Mundo’
Last 25th of September, we appeared at the Spanish Newspaper ‘El Mundo’. They explained what we do at thethings.iO as well as introduced the concept ‘Internet of Things’. The article says… Coming from the old concept of domotics, popped up the Internet of Things. The old domotics showed up a problem: with the system used, […]
