IoT

  Global technology company Imagination and digital identity and credentials expert Intercede are showcasing a solution for enhanced Internet of Things (IoT) security at BT’s bi-annual Innovation 2017 event.

  The latest real-world implementations advancing the adoption of the IoT and the role of standardisation in the projects were showcased by stakeholders from across the M2M and IoT industries as oneM2M, the global IoT standards initiative, held its inaugural Industry Day.

Combining hardware and software elements to enable rapid implementation of smart and connected cloud-based applications, ON Semiconductor’s IoT Development Kit (IDK) provides engineers with all of the building blocks needed to speed the evaluation, design and implementation of medical-, home- and industrial-based Internet of Things (IoT) designs. It is available at Mouser Electronics.

There were hundreds of millions of web users unable to access popular sites and services such as Amazon, PayPal, Twitter, Netflix, GitHub and Xbox Live on 21st October 2016. There were other major websites were affected, too, but the cause wasn’t an attack on each individual site. Instead, a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack targeted their Domain Name System (DNS) provider, Dyn.

  Long range and low power IoT (Internet of Things) technologies like Low-Power Wide Area Networks (LPWAN) are enabling new use cases in application areas such as smart cities, smart agriculture, smart manufacturing and work safety. Alongside robustness and availability, security is a key to successful adoption of these new applications.

Acal BFi has announced the addition of the ultra-flexible Sierra Wireless FX30 Programmable IoT gateway to its comprehensive IoT and Wireless communications portfolio. The FX30 is the first of the next generation of ruggedised, programmable, and expandable embedded wireless gateways, and is now commercially available to European customers from Acal BFi.

EnSilica and sureCore have announced that EnSilica has developed sureCore’s new, ultra-low power IoT reference platform targeted principally at the development of the next generation of wearable consumer and medical applications. With proven expertise in low power SoC design for battery powered applications, EnSilica’s experienced silicon team is able to deliver a complete, turn-key service covering complex digital and analog/RF ...

Cypress Semiconductor has announced a wireless solution that delivers advanced coexistence combining 802.11AC high performance WiFi, Bluetooth and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) for IoT applications.

Qualcomm Technologies has announced at its IoT industry analyst workshop that the company is currently shipping more than one million chips per day for the IoT.

A major industry trend in the telecom industry and beyond is IoT (The Internet of Things). It is generally agreed there is no shortage of potential on many different fronts. IoT brings the potential for businesses to be much more efficient due to the ability to analyse data that was previously locked within non-IoT enabled equipment. Guest blog by Jeff Gowan.