The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum takes fans on a journey through baseball's history via a new mobile application that leverages beacon technology to engage with fans on location and keep the history alive as they travel around the country. Located in Cooperstown, NY, the Baseball Hall of Fame it is important for the organization to expand its non-profit presence nationally through the app. With features such as a points system that leads to discounts, location alerts and a statistic tracker, users keep the heart of baseball with them through road trips or even in their hometown, especially now that …

Domino’s is bringing its digital Tracker to iOS customers via a new Apple Watch application that enables users to track orders from the oven to the front door from their wrists. Fans will now be able to track their order from the time it is submitted, receive alerts when it is placed in the oven and when it becomes ready for delivery or pick-up. The brand previously introduced the Domino’s Tracker for Android-supported smartwatches several months ago, and is now branching out to Apple customers following the April release of the Apple Watch.

McDonald’s doesn’t always get the best reputation, but when it comes to innovation in the fast food industry, they are crushing it. No, drones are not delivering your Big Macs (although they might in the not so distant future), but McDonald’s has been consistently increasing efficiency with IoT. They were one of the first to accept payment with Google Wallet, they recently accepted payment with hugs and are also looking to cut costs with cloud and remote management as well as providing touch-screen kiosks or tablet registers that take orders (they not only save employee time, but are more accurate). In the Netherlands, …

It started with home appliances, but this year has seen the idea of “smart” consumer products extend to soccer balls and liquor bottles as the technology evolves and promises more seamless engagement opportunities for product marketers than was previously available. As the Internet of Things gains steam, marketers are increasingly looking to integrate mobile directly into their products or onto to their packaging in ways that are more direct than QR codes and provide more value. The examples are just beginning to accumulate, from the Adidas MiCoach smart soccer ball whose embedded sensor interacts with a mobile application to help train …

If there was ever a doubt about the Internet of Things and its capacity to spark a “fourth industrial revolution”, just watch how China has embraced it in the past six months alone – anticipating huge technological change combined with remarkable economic growth. East or west, what’s different about the IoT is it’s the latest link in an evolutionary chain that began with our ability to “connect” online, developing since then to the point where we can use that connectedness to innovate and do business more efficiently. China-watchers at international consultants McKinsey predict new online development could fuel up to 22 …

Pittsburgh residents who dream of the day that the region’s bridges and roads can talk to their Internet-connected cars to plot the best pathway around potholes should be willing guinea pigs in Carnegie Mellon University’s latest experiment. After claiming the title of the world’s first university with an integrated computer network in the 1980s, CMU is now gunning for the designation as frontier for the Internet of Things — a term for products with Internet connectivity built into them — by turning its Oakland campus into a living lab. And it plans to make all of Pittsburgh part of the …

The IoT revolution is expected to create millions of new job opportunities across the industry, especially for electrical professionals. This sits in contrast to the revelation that automation will cause massive job redundancies. This opposing opinion was made by industry leaders including Schneider Electric, Osram, ABB, and Philips who were brought together by digital media business and sales enabler Voltimum. Schneider Electric UK&I president Tanuja Randery said: "The IoT revolution is going to change the way we work, as individuals, organisations and companies. "We have to find new ways of applying our resources, so I don't agree with those that say it's …

Don’t expect Sony to give up on smartphones like it did with PCs last year. Speaking with Arabian Business, Sony Mobile President and CEO Hiroki Totoki countered rumors that the company might sell off its phone business. Sony is the 10th-largest phone vendor according to Gartner, but the business is losing money, and in January sources told Reuters that the company was mulling a sale or joint venture for its phone operations.

This time of year, the biggest news in basketball is which multimillionaire baller is moving to what city for how big a pile of cash. But the real money may not be in the star players, but in using technology, specifically the Internet of Things (IoT), to improve the games of millions of young players and aging weekend warriors. And how well that technology works provides a useful yardstick for measuring the progress of the IoT. There’s no silver bullet, so load up with as many of these as you can. As a confirmed member of that second group, I've …

 Inelegant as the name may sound, the "Internet of Things" has become the descriptor for a gaggle of Internet-connected devices and appliances, from smart sprinkler systems to thermostats. Now Fuhu, a Los Angeles company known best as the producer of the Nabi tablet for children, wants to open the IoT's market to kids. Fuhu is in the early stages of devising a "connected room" platform for kids built around sensors, monitors and cloud services, all designed to supply information – and hopefully peace of mind – to parents. Baby-oriented products can track feeding, as well as how well kids are …