Abiro Meters is a new offering that visualizes and analyzes energy data. Abiro Meters

Abiro has been involved in an Articial Intelligence / Machine Learning project that was completed end of August with great results. AIRE – AI for Real Estate

I recently participated in an introduction to Node-RED tutored by Sensative AB. Node-RED is a visual programming tool focused on expressing data flows as linked nodes that perform functions on the data. In theory no coding is required. As Node-RED is written in JavaScript for Node.js it can run on most platforms, including e.g. Raspberry Read more about Node-RED for IoT[…]

Here’s another take on smartphone status and trends for 2020: InternetAdvisor – Smartphone Statistics in 2020: Everything in Your Pocket ~3.5B users (of a total 0f 4.8B mobile phone users) of smartphones worldwide. There are lots of details here, so dig in. My thoughts: Smartphones are no longer considered special phones, but rather perfectly normal Read more about More smartphone stats[…]

Update 2021-05-12: Here’s another more recent take on the topic: Phones by the numbers: 22 surprising smartphone statistics Here’s a guest post by Jodie Manners at UK Web Host Review, that’s in line with Abiro’s view of the market, and it’s a good read. Why You Should Care About Mobile Marketing In 2020 The data Read more about Smartphone stats 2020[…]

I did in 2011. Interesting to see if any of this is still relevant today. Blowing bubbles… Blowing bubbles, episode 2 A lot has happened since 2011, and now social media is so established it’s part of the worldwide culture and how we overall communicate. I had hoped Facebook wouldn’t have become the behemoth it Read more about Ranting about social media[…]

Physical Web Association (PHWA) aims to promote the use of beacons for context-based information access and interaction via mobile devices. From the site: What is the Physical Web Association? The Physical Web Association (PHWA) is a non-profit community established to advance the future development of the Physical Web. Our main goals are to drive its Read more about Anders Borg joins Physical Web Association[…]

My first programmable calculator was Texas Instruments TI-58C (C as in constant/persistent memory for programs), and it was “Christmas” when I got it and for as long as I used it, until the keys broke. Nowadays a smartphone is much more powerful than calculators (including when compared to modern calculators) so an app that does Read more about Nostalgia: TI-58/59 on the phone[…]

This work was done to see how small, and secondarily power-efficient, an Arduino/LoRa solution can be, as a preparation for education and measurements in the field. I used a clone (Adafruit Feather 32u4 RFM95), that is software-wise fully compatible with an Arduino and supported by Arduino IDE, including uploading of software, but has slightly more Read more about Evaluating Arduino with LoRa[…]

Here’s a summary of findings indicating there’s still Internet evolution going on, and not the least China and Asia as a whole is still very much a growing market. Africa should be next. Internet Statistics & Trends in 2019