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How Our Director of Engineering Built His Remote Workspace
You’re invited to step into Jeff McGehee’s office. You might also call our Director of Engineering’s office his home lab, his smart remote workspace, or, as his wife likes to call it, his “he shed”. Because creating the ideal remote workspace is something we’re passionate about at Very, we had Jeff take us on a virtual tour of the…
Read MoreWhat You Need to Know About Project Connected Home Over IP
When we buy a smart home device, take it home, and plug it in, we expect it to work out of the box, especially when it comes to connecting to other devices on our local network. From a consumer’s perspective, it seems obvious that we should be able to control devices like smart lights, smart locks, or IoT…
Read MoreBuilding Technical Capacity for IoT Maturity
Achieving IoT maturity isn’t about having the “coolest,” most innovative product on the market. Your product’s maturity — and revenue potential — depends on its capabilities, and having the right resources in place as system complexity inevitably increases. That’s why we developed the IoT Maturity Model — to help manufacturers understand what it takes to…
Read MoreHow to Build Smart Connected Products That Last
What happens when we lose the “I” in IoT? Internet of Things devices are defined by their interconnectivity. Whether that means being connected to the cloud over a Wi-Fi network or using Bluetooth to talk to a user-end mobile app, smart devices are connected devices. While having full connectivity on a reliable network is our ideal condition, that’s simply…
Read MoreIoT Strategy: Introducing the IoT Maturity Model
Developing a successful IoT product takes more than hardware engineering, writing code, or even an innovative idea. If you want your product to remain profitable and relevant in the long term, you’ll need to get strategic about your decisions — and not just the fun ones like which features to include during product design, or…
Read MoreIs Nerves a Real-Time Embedded System?
In a recent Nerves in Action webinar, Hideki Takase, Associate Professor at Kyoto University, presented his research into whether Nerves is a viable framework for building real-time control (RTC) devices. If you really want to geek out on all the nitty-gritty tech details, we highly recommend checking out his talk here: For now, we’re going to give a…
Read MoreHow to Use Test-Driven Development for Mobile Apps
Using test-driven development (TDD), fully or partially, improves your coding speed and can give you the confidence to make changes to not only your own code but other software engineers’ code as well. This increases your delivery speed, which is what matters to release a product on time and on budget. The most common reason…
Read MoreA Beginner’s Guide to Anomaly Detection
The possible use cases for IoT solutions are unlimited. So, the question becomes: how can a company leverage IoT technology to add value to consumer or business devices? Anomaly detection is one of the fastest ways to realize value. One hallmark of a viable Internet of Things (IoT) product is a data science approach that does…
Read MoreBest Tools for Remote IoT Hardware Development
Very has been fully remote from the very beginning, and we’ve learned a lot about how to optimize the opportunities and overcome the challenges presented by distributed teams. Especially when it comes to building a physical device, it’s crucial to have everyone’s hands on the same thing, even if that means spending more money to provide…
Read MoreSolving Prescriptive Analytics Challenges
Address These Predictive Analytics Challenges To Realize Greater Value With Your IoT Strategy
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