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From Demographic Profiles To Real World Data: How Insurance Companies Are Leveraging IoT
January 15, 2018
Insurance companies have traditionally relied on demographic and geographic information to assess coverage rates for customers. Loss has typically been a trailing indicator, rather than a preventative event. IoT is changing this methodology and changing it quickly. At the Insurance IoT USA Summit, held this year in Chicago, IL, the best of insurance companies were leading, listening and learning in sessions about how IoT innovations are and will transform the industry. SpinDance was there to […]
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A Pattern For Secure Uploads And Downloads In AWS IoT
March 15, 2018
Suppose you have a large fleet of connected sensors, all gathering data and triggering events based on conditional logic within the device. It’s one thing to provide event notifications, but what about all the continuous readings and status data? This data is likely to be much larger than what is selected for triggering an event or notification. This data may be able to provide valuable insights and is where analytics can provide incredible value. If […]
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Common IoT Team Gaps And Solutions: IoT Immigrants And Corporate Makers
September 13, 2019
At SpinDance, we get to interact with a huge variety of businesses, from international brands like Whirlpool to startups like Dogtelligent. Every week we talk with organizations making their first leap into the world of IoT. All of these organizations have a unique heritage of products and services and thus, unique challenges to suit. But regardless of the company or product, we see a definitive pattern in the people who are being tasked with succeeding […]
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Internet Of Manufacturing – Patterns Of IoT Success
July 3, 2018
Internet of Manufacturing Technology leaders, business strategists, and product innovators from manufacturers across the globe gathered together a few weeks ago at the Internet of Manufacturing event based on the shores of Lake Michigan in Chicago, IL. The event presented valuable opportunities to learn, network and discuss challenges and trends in IoT for the Industrial sector. Key themes at the event were digital transformation, changing customer expectations, workforce demographics, connectivity opportunities, and revenue growth. Challenges […]
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Interusability: IoT User Experience Beyond The Level Of A Single Device
September 7, 2018
In 2014, publisher and technology guru Tim O’Reilly gave a speech entitled “Software Above the Level of an Individual Device.” In it, he described the foundational pattern that IoT enables: instead of individual computers, we’re building a network of devices that “make it possible to completely rethink how we organize work, play and society itself.” Implicit in O’Reilly’s argument is the need for new ways of interfacing with these device networks to unlock their potential: […]
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Event-Driven Architectures With AWS DynamoDB Streams
November 2, 2018
We’ve been working with AWS DynamoDB Streams on our customer projects, and we’ve found it to be a really powerful solution for creating event-driven pipelines. DynamoDB is one of the more recent features added to DynamoDB and can help address some of the common challenges when migrating from a relational schema to DynamoDB. What Are DynamoDB Streams? If you don’t know the basics around DynamoDB, there are many good articles, blogs, and of course the […]
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Innovations In Housewares: Recap Of IHHS 2019
August 27, 2019
The SpinDance team had a great opportunity, yet again, to attend this year’s International Home + Housewares Show located at Chicago’s incredible McCormick Place Convention Center. As the largest housewares-only event in the world, the event attracts thousands of manufacturers, retailers, product developers, designers, and technologists who gather each year to release their newest ideas and innovations in housewares. SpinDance was excited to be a part of the event, meet up with current customers, and […]