IoT

Support for IoT protocols OPC UA and MQTT is now offered from HMS Industrial Networks, within the Anybus CompactCom range of embedded networking solutions. With OPC UA and MQTT in the portfolio, device and machine manufacturers who use CompactCom are offered a straight-forward path to providing secure data to the IIoT factories of tomorrow - already today.

Provider of RF solutions that connect the world, Qorvo, has announced that its multi-stack, multi-protocol GP712 System-on-Chip is in the new Zigbee-based HUMAX Chorus Voice Assistant. The pairing is advancing the Internet of Things (IoT) by creating a turnkey, smart home system for operators that integrates gateways, sensor devices, cloud platforms and mobile applications.

The new dual mode radio module platform for Smart Metering, Internet of Things (IoT) and Wireless Sensor Networks applications has been announced by Radiocrafts AS, provider of RF modules and wireless connectivity solutions. The module has a 2.4GHz radio transceiver is addition to the sub-Giga Hertz transceiver that is available on the RC18x0 module that was announced by Radiocrafts in September.

Kerlink has announced it will be providing telecom company and provider of telephony, Internet, television and network-based ICT services in Belgium, Proximus, with 800 more stations for the Proximus LoRaWANTM IoT network in that country. This network densification with geolocation-ready Kerlink WirnetTM iBTS Standard stations follows Proximus’s deployment of a LoRaWANTM IoT network in 2015 with 130 Kerlink WirnetTM...

Offering the new d. scale-HD+ LCD-TFT scaler board as an addition to its tried-and-tested d. vice product family is industrial TFT display and Digital Signage LCD solutions specialist, Display Solution. The d. scale-HD+ is based on Realtek's RTD2486 scaler family and, depending on the variant, has besides the usual inputs DVI, HDMI and DP also a DP-MST output. On the output side, the scaler board supports LCD TFT displays with...

  According to researchers at WatchGuard Technologies, as IoT botnet attacks continue to grow in size and effectiveness in 2018, the damage they cause will force the IoT manufacturing industry to add stronger security to their products or eventually result in governments addressing IoT security with regulation.  

  New hardware has been added to Bridgetek's PanL system level solutions that will accelerate the implementation of ‘intelligent spaces’ within a broad spectrum of different sectors. These will include domestic, retail, hospitality, enterprise and utilities, right through to factory automation, agriculture and medicine.

The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) has increased the availability of information throughout the enterprise by orchestrating data from multiple sources and applying machine-learning applications. However, the power of new IIoT tools to improve machine performance is limited when those with access to information are not experts on the machine, leaving powerful machine information untapped.

The operator of Canada’s first and only coast-to-coast public low power network, eleven-X, has announced that submetering company, QMC, has selected eleven-X to be its wireless network partner to reinvent the Smart Water Meter market. QMC will launch its Smart Water Metering solution in early 2018, which will be the first time a metering services company will use a public LoRaWAN network in Canada.  

The Security Manifesto and accompanying Digital Social Contract are an industry‑wide call to action from Arm’s CEO at the recent Arm TechCon, but developers have to act now, using available tools and pushing back to get security right. Arm’s CEO Simon Segars implanted security at the forefront of everyone’s mind at the recent Arm TechCon event in Santa Clara, California.