Did the flood of news about 5G from Mobile World Congress in Barcelona last week make you hopeful or wary? Smart money suggests vendors tend to be, um, optimistic in rollout timelines.

Isn’t it strange how the anticipation often satisfies more than the result? Yes, the Oscars just happened. Enjoy the arguments across social media about how right or wrong the Academy voters were this year.

Have you rigged up dancing witches and staggering zombies to scare trick or treaters with IoT motion detectors for Halloween yet? How about a candy-cam over the bowl to catch your spouse dipping into the stash? No? Just wait a year or two, and these things will be on the market.

We’re halfway through September, and someone over-ordered the fall rains on the East Coast.

IoT news isn’t just an American pastime—the whole world is going IoCrazy. So we’ll catch up to a few stories we missed that happened “across the ponds” and some dollar-oriented news closer to home.

News from afar

Sorry we were so early with all the hot summer talk last week. Not only is it hotter this week, the heat has moved from the U.S. to England and beyond. Oops.

Enjoying the pool? Enjoying the beach? Nah, we’re all working too much and worrying even more. If only we had some magic technology that could monitor our life’s busy aggravation points and report when things need attention.

Although we haven’t seen any IoT-enabled fireworks for July Fourth next week, there’s still time for that news to appear. If you have a lead on some boom-bang-IoT, let us know. Until then, let’s see what happened that deserves a closer look in the world of IoT integration.

Everyone (at least in America) was so focused on what to get dad for Father’s Day that lots of IoT news slipped by. Well, that may not be true if you bought your dad an IoT device, like a surveillance camera so he can see when to run out the front door and yell at those kids to get off his lawn.