IoT

Organisations designing devices and systems for the Internet of Things (IoT) today have many choices over the wireless protocols they will use to facilitate communication with the cloud. Simon Duggleby, Product Marketing Manager, Electronics Division, RS Components explains.

IAR Systems reports that the interest for the company’s Volume License Program is growing fast, especially thanks to new and upcoming companies within the IoT. As members of the Volume License Program, customers save both time and money by reusing their already made investments and standardising their development on IAR Systems’ powerful tools.

Semtech has revealed that Advantech has chosen to use its LoRa technology to enable long-range RF connectivity with the new standardised M2.COM sensor platform.

The Internet of Things (IoT) is attracting its fair share of fear, uncertainty and doubt these days. Take for example a recent report from ICIT entitled, ‘Combatting the Ransomware Blitzkreig’. In it, the authors James Scott and Drew Spaniel make the point that, “It is not inconceivable that malware, and ransomware in particular, will eventually target IoT devices.”

A field trial carried out by Fujitsu, in partnership with Intel, is visualising manufacturing processes at Shimane Fujitsu, which primarily manufactures notebook PCs. The field trial linked the FUJITSU Cloud Service IoT Platform with the Intel IoT Gateway.

The latest version of the Connexo MultiSense, multi-vendor, multi-communication technology meter data collection (MDC) system, developed by Elster, has been announced by Honeywell.

A full range of IoT gateways have been introduced by Advantech to fulfil an array of application environments. These gateways, powered by Intel IoT Gateway Technology, comprise the ultra-small series UTX-3115, ARK-1123L and ARK-1123H, multiple I/O ARK-2121L, in-vehicle series ARK-2121V and ARK-2151V, outdoor video surveillance series ARK-2121S and ARK-2151S, fleet management series TREK-570 and TREK-572, as well as automation series UNO-1252, UNO...

The Industrial IoT (IIoT), a subset of the IoT evolution, is all the rage within automation companies as they seek to add a high margin software component to their traditional businesses.

Semtech has revealed that Zenner will integrate LoRa RF technology into their water, heat, gas, smoke and electricity measuring devices being deployed in LPWANs (Low Power, Wide Area Networks) globally. By using LoRa RF technology and following the LoRaWAN specification, which is standardised by the LoRa Alliance, Zenner will give its customers the ability to easily integrate its platforms into existing LoRaWAN networks.

GainSpan, GEO Semiconductor and ON Semiconductor have collaborated to introduce a low-power, battery-operated video doorbell reference design, which is capable of streaming HD video and two-way, telephony-quality audio over WiFi networks. Developed in response to the rapidly growing IoT market for video/audio streaming products in the home, the reference design platform speeds time-to-market and reduces product development cost and cycle times fo...