We interviewed a member of the HWTrek expert community, IDT, about their Oregon Air Smart Air Monitor, a product developed under their Oregon Scientific brand. IDT is an ODM/OEM provider of lifestyle products in three major product groups. They are experienced in areas of sensors, digital imaging, digital voice and music technology, smart home, and [...]
Our friends at Business Next published an article about Ryotaro Nakayama's (CEO of Makuake) appearance at an event while he recently visited Taiwan. Tokyo-based Makuake, a subsidiary of CyberAgent, is one of the top crowdfunding platforms in Japan. Unlike other sites, Makuake specializes in physical products from IoT devices to consumer electronics, fashion to food created [...]
Noria Nakajima - Photo courtesy of EE Times - Source “IoT isn’t a market. It’s a phenomenon.” - Norio Nakajima, EE Times, August 8, 2016 Junko Yoshida, Chief International Correspondent for EE Times, published an excellent interview of Norio Nakajima, executive vice president of Kyoto-based Murata Manufacturing Co. responsible for the communication and [...]
We reached out to a participant in our first tour HWTrek Asia Innovation Tour (Spring 2014), Serge Didenko, and his fellow co-founder, Alireza Tahmasebzedah, of BLOCKS Wearables, to learn more about their project and insights. Over the course of the past two years, HWTrek hosted 80 hardware creators and accelerators to visit Taiwan, Beijing, and Shenzhen [...]
Microsoft acquires LinkedIn Besides the implications for CRM and a single identity for workers best covered by Ben Thompson and James Allworth (see links below); there are also important ways in which this acquisition will also be valuable for ERP (enterprise resource planning) in Microsoft Dynamics, and inter-/intra-corporate collaboration, whether via Yammer or other applications. This [...]
What is Industry 4.0 The term Industry 4.0 was first coined in 2011. The four key components of Industry 4.0 are Cyber-Physical Systems, Internet of Things (IoT), Internet of Services (IoS), and Smart Factory. The integration of computational and physical processes, that is enabled by embedded systems monitoring and controlling the real processes interacting with [...]
One cornerstone of Supply Chain 4.0 is known as Industry 4.0. Let's look at how China, and specifically Haier, has joined the emerging development of the factory of the future. We've translated the following article by Luo Chao from Chinese to English, which was originally published on Baidu Baijia. Read more about Supply Chain Service [...]
HWTrek to Host Asia Tour for Hardware Innovators of Internet of Things, Wearable and Robotics Devices Tour Provides Hardware Creators and SME/SMBs the Opportunity to Visit Prominent Manufacturers and Suppliers in Shenzhen and Beijing, China We are now accepting applications for HWTrek Asia Innovation Tour 2016, taking place April 25-29 in Shenzhen and Beijing, China with [...]
This week and next, members of the USS HWTrek team will be leading an away party to San Francisco and Silicon Valley. Fire off a tweet or connect with us on LinkedIn if you'd like to meet up when we transport over. If you'd like to talk about partnerships with HWTrek connect with Jessie. Hardware [...]
Intel® Edison is a development platform for IoT and wearable devices. It is designed to help hardware creators and entrepreneurs with rapid prototyping so that they can efficiently produce innovative IoT products that keep us connected and transform the ways in which we live. What do you get? The package includes an Intel® Edison Complete [...]