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Adapting, Growing, and Thriving: Reflections from My First Panel Talk

Setting the Scene Earlier this month, I had the privilege of joining a panel discussion at Marmadukes, held by the Casla team – Richard Costello, Millie and Saskia, alongside Chris Cotterill, Marketing Director from Tribepad and Claire O’Toole, B2B Marketing Manager from Westfield Health. The event brought together professionals across industries to explore the challenges … Read more

The Curve’s Inaugral Event – Learnings & Takeaways

First of all, a massive thank you to everyone who attended our event on the transformative power of IoT, we were thrilled to see so many familiar faces and new ones eager to dive into the world of IoT. As this was the first event that we had hosted it was safe to say that … Read more

The IoT Gadgets

In this post we take a quick look at the gadgets featured during The Curve’s demo at our first in-person event that we hosted the other week as well as a few of the considerations that went into the design, build and software. As there are many misconceptions to the challenges and complexities involved in … Read more

Total Cost of Ownership in IoT

September was a busy month for us at The Curve, but Paul and I were able to get some time out of the office to attend The Things Conference in Amsterdam. The conference focused on showcasing the diverse applications of LoRaWAN (Low Range Wide Area Network) technology across various sectors, including smart agriculture, industrial IoT, … Read more

Five Common Pitfalls of Building a Product

At The Curve, we build products for our clients. These could be business systems that are used by internal stakeholders that we develop using a product mindset, or B2C products our clients then use with their own customers. Building a product or system is not easy, there are many pitfalls and obstacles that often have … Read more

Unusual IoT Use Cases to Improve Business Performance

An introduction to IoT The Internet of Things (IoT) refers to a network of devices or objects that contain or are made up of a variety of sensors and other data gathering technologies that can connect and share information with one another as well as sharing data with other devices through an internet connection. So … Read more

Understanding HubSpot’s API and its uses

What is the HubSpot API? HubSpot provides a standard REST API as well as webhooks. The webhooks allow the custom integration to be notified of changes from HubSpot efficiently without the need for polling the API, whilst the API allows the integration to create, read and modify the data in HubSpot. Depending on what sort … Read more

The Curve recognised as a Yorkshire Tech Climber 2024

We were thrilled to attend and be recognised as one of Yorkshire’s Tech Climbers for 2024! Published with BusinessCloud and TechBlast Yorkshire Tech Climbers recognises and showcases the top-performing, IP-rich, product-led technology businesses from within the Yorkshire region. Entrants were judged on impact to industry problems and generating growth, as well as innovations that are … Read more

What are WebSockets, and Why Are They Essential for IoT?

Advances in IoT (The Internet of Things) technology has revolutionised the way devices interact with each other and with us. From smart homes to industrial automation, IoT devices rely on continuous, real-time communication to operate efficiently and effectively.  WebSockets, is a realtime communication protocol designed for full-duplex communication over a single TCP connection. WebSockets can … Read more