{"id":115790,"date":"2020-11-12T16:22:59","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T00:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/the-technology-thats-saving-businesses-millions-of-dollars"},"modified":"2020-11-12T16:22:59","modified_gmt":"2020-11-13T00:22:59","slug":"the-technology-thats-saving-businesses-millions-of-dollars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/the-technology-thats-saving-businesses-millions-of-dollars","title":{"rendered":"The technology that\u2019s saving businesses millions of dollars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-technology-thats-saving-businesses-millions-of-dollars.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Internet of Things can create tiny efficiencies that amount to a lot of money. Ben Fahy reports on how the IoT is changing the way businesses work.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Back in the 1830s, a depressed minister from Massachusetts named Lorenzo Langstroth got into beekeeping as therapy. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/arts-culture\/the-secret-to-the-modern-beehive-is-a-one-centimeter-air-gap-4427011\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">His hobby eventually led him to develop the moveable comb hive<\/a>, an innovation that allowed honey to be harvested without destroying the colony of bees. Since then, the art of beekeeping hasn\u2019t changed much, but Bruce Trevarthen, the founder and CEO of the LayerX group, thinks some smart technology and a bit of connectivity might be the next big bee-based breakthrough.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.modusense.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ModuSense<\/a>, a division of the Hamilton-based tech company\/incubator, focuses on providing industrial Internet of Things (IoT) solutions, particularly for the primary sector. But when it kicked off around four years ago, Trevarthen felt that target was still too broad, so he decided to focus on improving the productivity of one sector in particular: apiculture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Internet of Things can create tiny efficiencies that amount to a lot of money. Ben Fahy reports on how the IoT is changing the way businesses work. Back in the 1830s, a depressed minister from Massachusetts named Lorenzo Langstroth got into beekeeping as therapy. His hobby eventually led him to develop the moveable comb [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}