Football fans may still be overflowing with endorphins after the best four divisional playoff games in memory. Two games were decided by game-ending field goals and one in overtime.

The idea of connecting devices to share data predates the internet. It was the introduction of ubiquitous connectivity that really created the Internet of Things (IoT). Decades later we are still to realize the Internet of Everything.

Dreams of a white Christmas will remain unanswered for most of us this year, except for areas of the upper Northwest down toward Colorado, around Minnesota, and a little of the upper Northeast.

IoTPlaybook Insight: Custom home owners can be demanding, so Colorado-based integrator Cinegration filled a builder's 6,000 sf personal home with IoT and AV of all kinds.

IoTPlaybook Insight: Theater Advice thought they had seen and done it all … until they landed this every bells-and-whistles project for a 12,000-square-foot home in Texas. Anything is possible, thanks to IoT home automation advances, but not necessarily easy.

OK, here’s your official warning to do your holiday and end of the year business shopping (for the tax deduction) sooner, much sooner, than later.

November is shorthand for wet, cold, and messy weather for most of the country, and this year’s version starts this week. Rain sweeps from the Midwest to the Northeast, pushed by a cold front dropping 3-5 inches of white stuff across the upper Great Plains.

Build a GPS-enabled tracker with just a few lines of code to a Blues Wireless Notecarrier, and visualize it with IoT platform Datacake.

Integrators need to factor in location of sensors, power, battery life, performance, and more when implementing IoT solutions. 

In a conversation with ChannelPro, CEO Vince Crisler (pictured left) described the dangers of putting consumer-grade devices from China on SMB networks, and actions that can help mitigate those risks.