Internet of Things

Internet of Things
From POS To The Starship Enterprise: Baltimore Stadiums Engaging The IoT Warp Speed Drive
May 02, 2016

There’s no doubt about it – the Internet of Things is transforming society, and pushing numerous industries toward groundbreaking levels of innovation and integration. The April edition of the PYMNTS.com® Internet of Things Tracker includes an interview with the Maryland Stadium Authority’s Jeff Provenzano about...

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IoT Scoring Big In Pro Sports
April 29, 2016

There’s no doubt about it – the Internet of Things is transforming society, and pushing numerous industries toward groundbreaking levels of innovation and integration. The April edition of the PYMNTS.com® Internet of Things Tracker includes an interview with the Maryland Stadium Authority’s Jeff Provenzano about...

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The Amazon Effect Pushes Warehouses To The IoT Tipping Point
April 28, 2016

Amazon gets a lot of credit, and rightly so, for changing the way the average consumer expects to shop. Whether or not they can afford it, it’s no secret that express delivery has become a defining offering for online retailers, and failing to meet these...

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Samsung Launches IoT Cloud Platform
April 28, 2016

It’s with no small degree of irony that the budding Internet of Things will depend on software, not a thing at all, to tie all the devices themselves together for perfect smart home harmony. Now, Samsung is throwing its hat into that paradoxical ring while...

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AT&T Betting Big On IoT
April 28, 2016

In an age of streaming content and alternate media sources galore, traditional telecom companies are at risk of bleeding customers and their precious disposable income to upstart competitors. However, the possibility of an imminent explosion in the Internet of Things has enough revenue to go...

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Microsoft, NEC Bring Biometrics To Retail IoT
April 22, 2016

As consumers try on different Internet of Things-enabled products to see if they fit with their lifestyles, the manufacturing and retail worlds are moving right ahead with slightly more ambitious projects. Count NEC Corporation of America as a member of the latter, as it announced on Thursday...

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Turning Inventory Into Its Own Internet Of Things
April 19, 2016

Omnichannel has changed the retail world in ways that many merchants can’t even realize yet. For every giant like Amazon that has been able to navigate the still-murky waters of integrated inventory systems management, there are a hundred more that struggle to adapt. It’s these merchants...

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Why Retailers Should Care About Google’s Eddystone Beacon Upgrade
April 18, 2016

Beacons have been mired in a no man’s land of emerging technologies ever since they came onto the scene, and their lethargic progress can’t be chalked up to any single deficiency. Developers don’t know all their use cases; retailers aren’t quite sure how to deploy...

The IoT Goes Shopping
April 15, 2016

There are a lot of “things” in the “Internet of Things,” many of them focused on the home. But, as Joe Jensen, VP of the Internet of Things Group at Intel, recently discussed with Karen Webster, there is a world of opportunity for the technology...