IoT Sensors from Reuse.

Reclamation as a way of recycling has always been dear to my heart. Believe there is plenty of "old" stuff out there that can be made new again. Like digital Westinghouse and Cutler Hammer meters running INCOM - made modern via a PXG600E to TCPIP protocols. PXG was perhaps ahead of its timeand internally conflicted? Certainly not to everyone's taste.

Thought about intelligent edge display and sensing devices a few years back. Hard to nucleate production. But what if you reused existing?

Well that is what Phonvert envisioned. Convert smartphones into IoT nodes.

And of late a few are making it more real. Manything. Modifi Wemodifi. 

Here is an IBM Bluemix IoT sensor recipe.

More generally IoT sensing apps.

What other existing infrastructure could we reuse?

The Pivot to IoT. Rainmakers, Recipes, Fungibility, Sensors.

Saw this announcement about Pivotal, Benjamin Black and foray into IoT. The competitive landscape gets set out in the article with PTC, IBM, Cisco, Citrix, GE and others. Scroll down to the paragraph with "sensors aren't fungible" for the central issue in IoT, the nature of sensors and their natural environment, in a nutshell.

Interesting concept fungibility. And while one is on the topic of sensors and IoT... here is Oak Ridge Sensorpedia. And here is a sensorpedia recipe. Blogged before about great IBM IoT recipes... $3B investment in new division is quite an IBM announcement. Will this make IBM the rainmakers?

Network Enhanced Everything - NEE.

Have discussed "supers" previously - capacitors, batteries, insulation - and in general - materials...
also LEDs, solar photovoltaics and other renewables.

Lately thinking about everything network (and computer) enhanced...
Enhanced - manufacturing, services, handling, inventory, sensing, communications and analytics.
By no means comprehensive, but meant to encompass some popular specifics like
robotics, 3D fabrication, telepresence, IoT and M2M.