by Bruce Brown | April 10, 2023 | Enabling Tech
No one can accuse Amazon of thinking small. The cloud services giant recently introduced the Amazon Sidewalk Internet of Things (IoT) network and invited developers to explore Sidewalk and start working on connecting the next billion devices to the network. Sidewalk...
by Bruce Brown | November 2, 2021 | Health, Medical
For many elderly people, their greatest fear is of an unexpected fall that will be the beginning of the end. According to April 2021 World Health Organization Falls data, falls are the second most common cause of unintentional injury deaths worldwide. People in their...
by Bruce Brown | April 16, 2020 | Health
Thousands of workers die in industrial accidents each year in the U.S. and more than 100,000 suffer from non-fatal work-related injuries. Workers, employers, and insurance companies collectively face billions of dollars of direct and indirect costs due to industrial...
by Bruce Brown | April 3, 2020 | Enabling Tech
Privacy issues continue to shape the wearables industry. In 2014 we wrote about a Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) study finding that wearable users were extremely concerned about the use of patient-contributed data. The FTC took a stance on the...
by Bruce Brown | February 5, 2020 | Enabling Tech
The search for efficient power sources for wearables and Internet of Things (IoT) devices takes many directions. In the past, we’ve written about technology that harvests energy from knee movement, sunlight, nanotube yarn, and more. Scientists at the Electronics...
