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The food industry is buzzing with digitalisation in every sense, from the farm to the front page of the online store. With this in mind, u-blox invited Haiao Ding, Associate Chief Editor of the Digital Business Times, to talk with Perry Zhang, Principal, Strategic Partnerships at u-blox, about the impact of digitisation on the food supply chain.

The global autonomous vehicle market is expected to grow at a rate of almost 40% from 2019 to 2026 as at least 46 companies, including the likes of Tesla and Alphabet, develop self-driving vehicles that will add $7 trillion to the global economy. By: Dr Bryan Marshall, Head of IoT and AV Technology, Nominet.

Following on the recent success of the InSight probe’s Mars landing, VxWorks  is once again enabling an interplanetary first – an asteroid sample return mission. On 3rd December 2018, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft arrived at the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. Guest blog written by Tim Skutt, Wind River.

In recent decades, the number of traffic fatalities has plummeted, thanks to an increasing number of safety features on board, from seat belts to airbags to new lane keeping assistance systems. But even in the European road network, the safest in the world, over 25,000 people lose their lives every year. In addition, another 135,000 people are seriously injured.

For the past nine months Ron Breault has been working as a member of an experienced, diverse team creating a new technical standard for use within industrial process automation. The activity has been managed under the careful guidance of The Open Group, and the effort is taking place in the Open Process Automation Forum, abbreviated as 'OPAF.' Guest blog from Ron Breault of Wind River.

A new white paper from Wind River has just been published by Mobile World Live titled: ‘Distributed Edge Clouds Are Complex, But Must They Be Difficult?’ (The answer is no by the way.) Guest blog written by Charlie Ashton.

"If 2017 is considered the first year of the NB-IoT era, and 2018 is the first year of its commercialisation, then 2019 will be the first year in history to fuel the development of NB-IoT," said Feng Dapeng, director and assistant general manager of the Huizhong Instrumentation. NB-IoT stands for Narrowband Internet of Things and is one of the two licensed Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) technologies that have already begun to usher in ...

In just 15 minutes your new u-track can be set up and will be able to save you weeks of development time, so that you can build low power tracking solutions for consumer and industrial applications on a rock‑solid foundation.Tracking devices featuring satellite positioning and wireless communication are already one of the IoT’s biggest commercial success stories. 

In the recent Wind River and Rockwell Collins joint webinar 'Plan with Confidence: Route to a Successful DO-178C Multi-Core Certification', a number of topics related to the planning, design, testing and analysis for RTCA DO-178C / EUROCAE ED-12C DAL A safety certification of avionics software systems running on multiple cores on multi-core processors were discussed. Blog written by Paul Parkinson, Wind River.

Keeping products secure is a requirement for survival, demanding vigilance in finding, applying, and distributing working patches to customers in the timeliest manner possible. While there is heightened awareness about device vulnerabilities, what is often missing is awareness about the process of managing the security response process itself. Guest blog by David Reyna, Wind River.