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Connected Devices and IoT

Matter Smart Home Standard Allows Smart Home Devices to Work Together

Competing smart home standards complicate how we interact with our appliances, thermostats, home assistants and other connected devices at home, but one such standard — Matter — works to ensure device interoperability across brands and platforms. Read this informative post to learn more.
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Streaming Media

What is HLS Streaming and How Do You Deploy It?

If you’ve ever wondered how streaming media works, Cardinal Peak’s experienced engineering HLS streaming dives into Apple’s HTTP live streaming protocol and how it works, offering advice on deploying HLS video streams.
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Connected Devices and IoT

How to Set Up and Work With a LoRa Device

In this blog, we describe how to set up and work with a LoRa GPS-tracker node device. Among other functions, these LoRa devices typically keep track of their location via GPS and send data through gateways onto the LoRaWAN network.
Competing smart home standards complicate how we interact with our appliances, thermostats, home assistants and other connected devices at home, but one such standard — Matter — works to ensure device interoperability across brands and platforms. Read this informative post to learn more.
If you’ve ever wondered how streaming media works, Cardinal Peak’s experienced engineering HLS streaming dives into Apple’s HTTP live streaming protocol and how it works, offering advice on deploying HLS video streams.
In this blog, we describe how to set up and work with a LoRa GPS-tracker node device. Among other functions, these LoRa devices typically keep track of their location via GPS and send data through gateways onto the LoRaWAN network.
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Connected Devices and IoT

Everything You Need to Know About LoRa & How To Set Up a LoRa Gateway To View IoT Device Data

In this blog, we document the steps required to set up a gateway from scratch, register it with The Things Network and observe uplink data from a simple LoRa node.
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AWS

The Problem With Generic IoT Platforms — and Why We Avoid Them

While generic IoT platforms sound like a great idea, the problem is these "one-size-fits-all" platforms tend to only deliver about 60% of a typical IoT solution. By the time the remaining 40% of the problem is solved and productized, the solution has actually evolved to a bespoke application for that customer.
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Audio

Cardinal Peak Team Member Honored With Technology & Engineering Emmy Award

Earlier this year, the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) announced the recipients of the 71st Annual Technology & Engineering Emmy® Awards, with Cardinal Peak consultant Kevin Gross earning recognition for his efforts that ultimately produced the AES67 standard in 2013.
In this blog, we document the steps required to set up a gateway from scratch, register it with The Things Network and observe uplink data from a simple LoRa node.
While generic IoT platforms sound like a great idea, the problem is these "one-size-fits-all" platforms tend to only deliver about 60% of a typical IoT solution. By the time the remaining 40% of the problem is solved and productized, the solution has actually evolved to a bespoke application for that customer.
Earlier this year, the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) announced the recipients of the 71st Annual Technology & Engineering Emmy® Awards, with Cardinal Peak consultant Kevin Gross earning recognition for his efforts that ultimately produced the AES67 standard in 2013.