ICYMI: Your IoT Updates before the Labor Day Weekend

By Alex Passett August 30, 2024

Earlier this morning, I shared new data on global IoT market projections (courtesy of Stocklytics) — essentially, the market ain’t showing signs of slowdown. By 2029, experts believe the overall IoT market is projected to hit an outstanding $1.5 trillion in revenue. That’s wild. (Read the full article here.)

That leads us to this article; your usual Friday look at some “ICYMI” IoT pieces that we think deserve a pinch more attention.

Take a peek:

On Smart City Sentinel, we covered news about Butlr, an MIT Media Lab spinout that focuses on smartly reinforcing “people sensing” data infrastructure (and keeping it flexible and highly scalable as connected space technologies evolve). Butlr’s designers, engineers, scientists and data architects have assembled solutions like their thermal wireless sensors; they’re camera-free, they don’t capture personal identifiable information, and their advanced AI and ambient monitoring tools support use cases like assisted living and home healthcare, upgrades to people-focused workplace management capabilities, etc. And this week, Butlr announced $38 million in Series B funding. This brings its total raised to $68 million to date, supported by investors like Qualcomm, DNX Ventures, Foundry, Pacific Alliance Venture, GS Futures, Ray Stata and others. Read the full scoop on Butlr here.
Speaking of smart tech, let’s shift over to a feature on IoT Evolution World’s Smart Home news. The team at Dirac is on a mission to give folks the best-possible audio experiences; for their computers, headphones, connected vehicles and, yes, smart home environments. Dirac’s digital audio solutions help whatever is being listened to sound more immersive and pristine, and this is made possible due to the company’s patented algorithms. And now, the company has a new CEO that’s taking its operations by storm; specifically, his name is Anders Storm, and he believes that Dirac “is in a unique position and has endless possibilities in all parts of the IoT ecosystem,” and that its high-performance, premium audio offerings are only just getting started, when it comes to bona fide, interconnected innovation. Read more about Dirac and Anders Storm here.
Since 2005, Iveda has been developing digital transformation-centric technologies, providing IoT-powered support to smart city teams and other organizations around the world. Smart sensors, cloud-based AI video platform capabilities, you name it; Iveda delivers for teams in transport, building and campus security, connected urban environments, asset tracking and more. And just yesterday, the company spread the word about its new customizable IoT sensor (patent pending) that will enhance next-gen liquid storage monitoring capabilities via Iveda’s existing LevelNOW solution. “Not only will these sensors provide major cost savings,” described David Ly, Iveda’s CEO, “but they’ll also save on time so users don’t have to learn how to operate brand-new gear.” Here’s the rest.
Perceptive, a provider of AI-driven automated dental solutions (talk about super complex and delicate processes) announced within the last month or so the completion of, quote, “the world’s first fully automated dental procedure on a human” using its advanced robotic dentistry system. (We really are hitting the future quickly here, huh?) This milestone, according to the official press, “represents a real breakthrough for precise efficiency during dental procedures.” It may also “democratize access to better dental care, for improved patient experiences and clinical outcomes,” stated Perceptive founder and CEO Dr. Chris Ciriello. Naturally, this may not sound natural to all readers; not everyone wants a machine performing on a sensitive level in their own mouths. That said, German Galluicci, DMD, Ph.D., Chairman of Restorative Dentistry at Harvard School of Dental Medicine, added how “Perceptive’s technology achieves over a 90% accuracy rate for detecting caries without the ionizing radiation associated with traditional X-rays and CBCT scanners — a significant improvement over the approximately 40% accuracy of 2D X-rays. This ensures safer and more precise diagnoses, enhancing patient care and safety.” For that aforementioned press release, click here.
Lastly for today, we have Wind River. When we last published Wind River-related news, the company had a.) expanded its partnership with Hyundai Mobis to further software-defined vehicle (SDV) advancements, b.) announced another collab with the NVIDIA Jetson platform, and c.) linked up with Elektrobit, providing its VxWorks as a real-time OS (with Elektrobit offering its second-gen EB corbos Adaptive Core software and related tools to develop new automotive safety systems for advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS). So, the next Wind River update? Well, the company announced that NETA Auto has used WInd River Linux to develop its HOZI supercomputing XPC Intelligent Control Domain Controller; this integrated gateway domain controller can serve as the quote-unquote “central nervous system” within intelligent vehicles, supporting iterative vehicle upgrades and streamlining control and safety functions. Take a look at the rest of the Wind River details here.