NIFTY Corporation, a subsidiary of the Fujitsu group, joins KPCB and Metamorphic Ventures to raise company seed total to $2 million, brings cloud services to hardware of all kinds.

Room 5 announces it has won the top award for Best Industrial IOT Project as well as the overall 2015 IOT World Hackathon Grand Prize at this years 2nd Annual IOT World Hackathon. Room 5 engineers and designers intergrated multiple IOT components to build iTrash, a smart trashcan that can automatically take itself to the curb when it is full and return when emptied.

Room 5 launches its new website introducing the real engineers behind the smart products of the Internet of Things.