A startup founded by two MIT grads says that it can deploy self-powering sensors to handle low-intensity IoT tasks, eliminating the need for batteries or power cabling and adding a new level of flexibility to IoT deployments. Ben Calhoun and Dave Wentzloff are the founders of Everactive, an IoT-device startup whose sensor modules can create their own power from a variety of sources, including indoor solar that gathers energy from artificial lighting, and thermal-gradient differential…

Small business owners have a lot on their minds. Trusting that their technology investments are reliable and work properly shouldn’t be one of them. Small business budgets are tight, especially now, during the pandemic recovery. Since they must keep track of every dollar spent—and ensure that they get the anticipated bang for their buck—it’s understandable that they might be swayed by a seemingly lower-cost version of a Cisco product that they found online. Why pay…

Edge computing is transforming the way data is being handled, processed, and delivered from millions of devices around the world. The explosive growth of internet-connected devices—the IoT—along with new applications that require real-time computing power, continues to drive edge-computing systems. Faster networking technologies, such as 5G wireless, are allowing for edge computing systems to accelerate the creation or support of real-time applications, such as video processing and analytics, self-driving cars, artificial intelligence and robotics, to…

When the unexpected happens, it is always good to know how to start investigation. Logs are definitely a valid starting point. They are the well-known and universally adopted approach to track and record events generated by an operating system or software running on top. I need a log file Log files provide a computer-generated list of occurrences, activities and operations on a system, itemized in a temporal order for ease of use. Therefore, logs can…