IoT

Toshiba Corporation and Microsoft Corporation have announced that the two companies have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to jointly develop solutions for the IoT. Leveraging Toshiba’s innovative IoT devices with Microsoft’s Azure IoT Cloud infrastructure, Toshiba will deliver state of the art sensor-data-driven applications in various market segments starting in calendar year 2015.

Round Solutions has launched its wireless PingPong IoT edge node, a flexible and powerful hardware platform for connecting field devices to the cloud. The RTOS supporting small form factor board with powerful Microchip PIC32MZ 32-bit MCU and a high-speed cellular Telit module is based on a modular hardware design principle, that simplifies the integration of custom-specific applications and communication standards into a single solution platform.

Ready for the IoT age when everything is expected to be connected to the Internet, STMicroelectronics and Paradox Engineering will be demonstrating wireless mesh network technologies for smart city at TECHNO-FRONTIER 2015.

An embedded IoT gateway platform, which supports the Intel IoT Gateway solution, has been introduced by Axiomtek. The ICO300-MI din-rail embedded industrial IoT platform utilises the low power E3815 Intel Atom processor (1.46GHz) and supports DDR3L system memory up to 4GB, delivering high performance and low power consumption. 

Samsung president Young Sohn was at the recent IoT World conference in San Francisco to introduce a family of low-power chips designed for next-gen IoT devices. One of the chips presented on stage, ARTIK 1, features a MIPS32-based, dual-core application processor, flash storage, a crypto engine and Bluetooth Smart radios for communication.

A database management system that can be configured to precisely match the needs of any smart grid has been introduced by Raima. If smart grids are to achieve their full potential, efficient data handling is a prerequisite. The Raima Database Manager (RDM) can be embedded into the grid to provide local real-time control. 

When you cut through the hype around the IoT, it’s the Internet of Sensors (IoS) and resulting data that matters most, according to developers at The Technology Partnership (TTP). “The IoT is, to a large extent, a solution looking for a problem, rather than the other way round,” says Steve Taylor, Senior Consultant, TTP. “There’s simply no point in objects talking to each other just for the sake of it and the IoT onl...

The proliferation of different devices, networks, platforms and applications to support the IoT, multiplies the vulnerabilities and greatly increases the potential for malicious attacks, according to Beecham Research. The Beecham Research, titled IoT Security Threat Map, highlights the key areas where external or internal attacks may originate and where the fast growing IoT industry needs to do more to provide better security controls. The IoT th...

Atmel and MXCHIP have announced the joint development of an ultra-low power IoT platform with secure Wi-Fi access to the cloud, enabling designers to quickly bring their IoT devices to market. This joint platform combines Atmel’s ultra-low power Atmel | SMART SAM G Cortex-M4-based MCUs and its SmartConnect WILC1000 WiFi solution with MXCHIP’s MiCO IoT OS, servicing a full range of smart device developers for IoT applications.

The last few years have seen an explosion in IoT devices and connected products such as wireless sensors, smart meters, home automation systems and wearables. The lowered cost of components such as sensors and processors along with increasing wireless connectivity has resulted in many products being made 'smart' and able to communicate with each other without human intervention.