A weekly digest of what matters, 30 evergreen guides, a glossary of 200+ terms, and a directory of the companies and jobs that make connected things work.
Issue 3: Home Assistant 2026.10 moves to OpenStreetMap vector tiles, AWS ends Greengrass V1 support, Silicon Labs launches the Simplicity AI SDK, and Flolive and Skylo cover Brazil.
30 evergreen guides: fundamentals, architecture, protocols, security, edge and industry use cases.
A curated directory of IoT platforms, connectivity providers, chipmakers and integrators. 640 listings and growing.
Engineering, product and field roles in connected products and industrial IoT. No live listings yet: real openings arrive with the job feeds, and the board shows the format until then.
A clear definition of the Internet of Things, what makes a device an IoT device, how the pieces fit together, and where the idea stops being useful.
The layered model used to describe IoT systems: perception, network, edge, platform and application, what each layer does and where the boundaries blur.
A practical comparison of IoT radio technologies by range, power, bandwidth, topology and cost, with a decision method for picking the right one.
How MQTT works: brokers, topics, QoS levels, retained messages, last will, sessions and MQTT 5 features, with guidance on topic design and when to use it.
The main ways IoT devices get attacked, from default passwords to insecure updates, and the layered defenses that keep a fleet trustworthy.
What edge computing means in IoT, why latency, bandwidth, privacy and resilience push computation toward devices, and how to decide what runs where.
Industry 4.0Machines that report, lines that adapt · 6 min read 
Smart citiesTraffic, lighting, water and air, measured · 5 min read 
AgricultureSoil, livestock and irrigation on data · 5 min read 
EnergySmart grids, meters and flexibility · 5 min read Looking for a definition? The glossary has 200+ terms, each on its own page.