Insights | A blog about Things
Insights | A blog about Things
Smart Highways
The Smart Highways project that we are working on with our partners, Costain, Highways England and A-one+ is one of our most exciting yet! “I have been involved with the pilot of RedBite’s technology since the beginning and have seen the potential it has to...
11 Reasons Why You Need to Stop Using Excel to Manage Your Assets
If you are suffering using Excel to manage your assets then you may be comforted to know that you are not alone. Those niggles you have and all the things you wish spreadsheets could do? Yep, shared by a staggering number of people, regardless of industry. Let’s take...
RedBite’s Asset Tracking Takes Off at Manchester Airport
At RedBite, the Internet of Things (IoT) is not simply about connecting sensors and devices to the Internet, it is about connecting any object to systems, people and fellow objects. This could include anything, from air conditioning units at the University of...
RedBite’s Asset Management Enables Smart Facilities at University of Cambridge’s IfM
Having already discussed the IoT and some fundamental elements including its origin and having examined how laborious tasks such as stock takes can be assisted, we thought it was about time we let you know how our product, RedStore, is turning objects into Smart...
Crowdsourced data: Smart Objects and the Power of the Crowd
According to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) “crowdsourced” is a relatively new word, its first recorded use being as recent as 2005. So, it is ironic that the compilation of the OED is itself one of the most impressive crowdsourcing projects in history. In 1857,...
How An RFID Inventory Management Stock Take Solution Will Save You Time and Money
The Internet of Things (IoT) in its simplest form is fundamentally centered on enabling ‘things’ or objects to be Smarter. Smart Objects are those that are able to communicate with other things and with us. Yes, one day this will lead to self-replenishing fridges and...
Interoperability and the Internet of Things
The Internet is arguably the most significant technological and social development in human history. By connecting people the world over, it has transformed our societies in innumerable ways. While Internet access increases in ubiquity via our smart phones, cars and...
Internet of Things: Empowered by Auto-ID Technologies
We are at the dawn of the Internet of Things. In less than a decade’s time, sensors, trackers and network devices that form the infrastructure of the Internet of Things (IoT) will permeate every aspect of our lives. It is imminent that interests in solving business...
What is the Internet of Things? and What is it Not?
In our first Insights article on the Origin of the Internet of Things (IoT), Prof McFarlane posed a question about whether Kevin Ashton’s vision of the IoT has in fact shrunk over the years. One would be naturally puzzled by this question given that the IoT has been...
The Origin of the Internet of Things
Most of you have probably heard the Internet of Things, or the IoT, mentioned but have you ever wondered what it means and where it all began? Well here's my version of it: In 1999, the Auto-ID Centre was founded, which subsequently formed a unique partnership between...