{"id":12522,"date":"2014-11-08T09:00:48","date_gmt":"2014-11-08T17:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=12522"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:11:36","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:11:36","slug":"battery-free-chip-for-the-internet-of-things-thats-the-size-of-an-ant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/battery-free-chip-for-the-internet-of-things-thats-the-size-of-an-ant","title":{"rendered":"Battery-Free Chip For the \u2018Internet of Things\u2019 That\u2019s the Size of an Ant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Written By: <a title=\"Posts by Jason Dorrier\" href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/author\/jdorrier\/\" rel=\"author\">Jason Dorrier<\/a> \u2014 Singularity Hub<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>As a concept, the Internet of Things has been around for awhile. In theory, as chips get smaller and cheaper, we should be able to embed them in everyday items. Appliances, lighting, doors, climate control\u2014all these things (and many more) get a chip and an internet connection. They can send data and receive commands.<\/p>\n<p>In short, a world of dumb, inanimate objects <a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2014\/06\/15\/our-hyperconnected-future-roundup-of-the-2014-mit-tech-review-digital-summit\/\">wakes up to do our bidding<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But there are usually more than a few roadblocks between concept and execution. And two of the biggest challenges for the Internet of Things are power and cost.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2014\/09\/17\/battery-free-chip-for-the-internet-of-things-thats-the-size-of-an-ant\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written By: Jason Dorrier \u2014 Singularity Hub As a concept, the Internet of Things has been around for awhile. In theory, as chips get smaller and cheaper, we should be able to embed them in everyday items. Appliances, lighting, doors, climate control\u2014all these things (and many more) get a chip and an internet connection. They [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1694],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12522","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\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46785,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12522\/revisions\/46785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}