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Auto makers are under pressure to deliver more innovation at a faster pace than ever before, all the while maintaining high levels of safety. Typically, the introduction of new technologies means added complexity and greater cost. So, how can OEMs address evolving market needs and stay on time and budget?  Guest blog written by Marques McCammon.

The car industry is thriving and there are more vehicles on the roads every year. Despite the constant efforts of the manufacturers to improve the built-in security measures on new cars, vehicle theft is still a major issue. With a greater variety of vehicles to choose from, car thieves are busier than ever in the recent years. Author: Ekim Saribardak, Web Development Director, Rewire Security

As we are faced with increasing complexity and scale of software in safety critical systems, the trend towards workload consolidation platforms using multi-core processors brings entanglement and interference issues that complicate resource provisioning, predictability, understand-ability, element separation and, ultimately, certify-ability, security and safety. Guest blog written by Maarten Koning, Wind River.

The global expansion of low-power wide-area networks (LPWAN) is gaining momentum, and for a good reason. With demand in place, there are enough tangible opportunities to reward investment. Pick out a market application and you'll find that it's easy to think of ways in which using LPWA technologies could automate processes, locate goods, monitor infrastructure, and ultimately save on costs. 

Meet Mark Smith, Product Engineer, from a division in Ramtech. Ramtech is a UK wireless systems technology specialist, delivering innovative safety and security solutions for the leisure and construction industries. As Ramtech grew, the company made the strategic decision to outsource their manufacturing to a partner that better suited their evolving needs.

There’s a lot of talk about how the IoT is shaking things up in the industrial and consumer sectors, but disruption isn’t limited to these two areas, writes Sam Darwish, Sales Director, Microlease. In truth, consolidation and the cross-propagation of technologies is a common theme in the electronics sector and one that is the source of significant change.

Protecting patients and promoting public health is a key directive for the US Food & Drug Administration (FDA). This directive includes oversight on the safe and secure use of medical devices for patient care. Guest blog written by Jeff Kataoka, Wind River.

Even if you went on a really long vacation this summer, perhaps backpacking deep into California’s John Muir trail, you’ve probably heard at least something about all the work that’s been going on in The Open Group’s Open Process Automation Forum, or OPAF.  Guest blog written by Breault, Wind River.  

Have you ever considered where our beautiful new networked society is going? U-blox sat down to talk to Greg Williams, Editor-in-Chief of Wired, and Paul Gough, Principal, Corporate Strategy of u-blox, to look at some of the applications of tomorrow that could be made possible.

Optical fibre is everywhere in the world, from home broadband and telecommunications to the undersea cables that connect continents together. Billions of people across the world now rely on these networks of silica strands to make communication and access to information instantaneous, cost-effective and reliable. And since it is lighter, smaller and faster than copper wire and cheaper than satellite, optical fibre is the obvious choice to help us...