Jim Hunter

Jim Hunter is chief scientist and technology evangelist at Greenwave Systems.

Jim Hunter

A few years back, I wrote about the way we communicate with our technology. It was obvious even then that a big game-changer would be enabling a reliable conversational interaction with technology…

IoT ‘conversation’ and ambient contextuality
Hardware

IoT redux… this time, it’s personal

4:00 pm PST • December 28, 2016

As we advance toward 2017, a quick analysis of our connected landscape indicates that the IoT is taking a short break from destroying the internet and is now letting Mark…

IoT redux… this time, it’s personal

With language like this, social networks become a natural point of interaction between people and things, and TAGs will make it seem effortless for us all. This is already the…

Tagging may be the best way to make IoT contextually relevant and usable

At the start of this year, the Wi-Fi Alliance announced the long-awaited Wi-Fi HaLow standard for products incorporating IEEE 802.11ah wireless networking technology. HaLow extends a flavor of Wi-Fi into…

HaLow Is The Natural Next Step In The Evolution Of IoT

An old proverb advises, “Keep a thing seven years, and you’ll find a use for it.” Well, it’s been about seven years since there were officially more “things” connected to…

What Will The Internet Of Things Be When It Grows Up?
Hardware

The Hierarchy of IoT “Thing” Needs

8:00 pm PDT • September 5, 2015

I received a lot of feedback on an article I wrote a few months ago about changing the way we perceive the “Things” in the Internet of Things (IoT). The…

The Hierarchy of IoT “Thing” Needs
Hardware

‘Things’ Are People, Too

6:00 pm PDT • May 19, 2015

If you’re thinking this article is about creating a historical record that our future robot overlords may read and reward me for, you’re not entirely right. To keep this particular…

‘Things’ Are People, Too

It looks like this IoT trend is starting to catch on with the developer community. At least, that’s a conclusion one could draw from the reported results of a new…

If We Build IoT, They Will Come. Right?