Glue connecting the Internet of Things

The goal is to become the "glue connecting the Internet of Things" by developing an open platform that bridges objects, locations, people and the Web.

Finding good programmers and developers is a struggle for many businesses. Neur argue that for IoT to gain mass relevance, we'll need either a heck of a lot more programmers or some sort of shortcut to sidestep this bottleneck.

Neur believes that devices and device ecosystems need to "understand the human." Smart devices will need to learn when to suggest and respond to prompts, as well as figuring out how to allow the user to opt into certain actions, rather than having prompts and triggers set in stone (well, code).

Neura does two things to help devices "understand the human." First, Neura's platform offers a way for an individual's devices to communicate with one another. More importantly, Neura helps a person's devices understand the context (where, when, with whom), semantic (what does this mean) and pattern behaviour.

By combining these streams of data, devices could eventually have predictive features and will be able to respond to an individual's daily activity. For example, after a user spends time in the kitchen and then leaves home, Neura will make sure the oven is shut down. Neura can prompt a vacuum cleaner to work harder after multiple people have visited your home. Or if a user comes back from a run in the park, Neura can allow the user's connected glucometer to have access to their activity, sleep and blood pressure information.

Neura says that it can also help smart devices understand how contextual elements, such as jet-lag and weather, impact human factors, such as blood glucose.