Things are falling everywhere, including leaves, your favorite football team’s playoff chances, and the clock, which fell backward an hour on 11/4/18. Did you spend your extra hour raking leaves or alternately cheering and cursing your football team?

Smart cities represent an enormous opportunity for those who address the challenges.

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.

Speakers at Microsoft's most recent IoT in Action event outlined the critical ingredients for success in one of IT’s hottest markets.

IoT Playbook Insight: Kudos to the Reno Technology Academy at Multnomah University for launching new IoT and cybersecurity specialist certifications. Kudos as well to the Nevada Governor's Office of Economic Development for the grant money. Courses start in January 2019.

Now that the World Series is set (congrats to the Red Sox and the Dodgers) and the NFL is almost halfway through the season, fall feels a bit more normal.

Do your leaf peeping quickly, before they all fall down. As we march toward Halloween, the conferences and user group meetings seem to multiply and spread news like those swirling leaves. We caught as many as we could that concerned IoT, and here are some more.

IoT projects are complex. Input from key stakeholders greatly increases the odds of success.

IoTPlaybook Insight: The title above is the sub-headline for an article in Machine Design titled, 'Avoid the “7 Deadly Sins” of IoT Product Development.' But the advice applies directly to integrators solving problems for their customers using IoT.