IoT

INTEGRITY Security Services (ISS), a Green Hills Software Company, has announced end-to-end IoT Security Solutions, addressing both device and key management infrastructure required for secure embedded development. The portfolio aims to address tomorrow's ever-changing security requirements, as more and more embedded devices become a part of our lives.

Lack of privacy is not a “user issue”; it’s an engineering fault. When it comes to the Internet of Things, individual privacy is at the top of the agenda for both consumers and the wider media. For engineers and product developers however, it is rarely seen as the number one concern... By Simon Holt, Strategic Alliance Marketing Manager, Farnell element14.

TALIS has announced that it will use the SIGFOX network in its smart-city fire hydrant monitoring solution, COPERNIC, which allows water utility officials to monitor the status of fire hydrants 24/7 to assure proper functioning and protect against water theft. It provides real-time alerts when fire hydrants are used, along with estimates of volume drawn, data on functioning and other information that supports total network efficiency.&n...

The ZigBee Alliance and the Thread Group recently announced that they are collaborating to aid development of connected home products, opening the door for the ZigBee Cluster Library Application Protocol to run on Thread networks. This is a big step forward to making the IoT and the Smart Home real. Check out the detailed analysis from Cees Links, CEO, GreenPeak, below:

Designed for IoT applications, Toshiba Electronics Europe expands its selection of ApP Lite processors. The TZ5010XBG and the TZ5011XBG application processors are based on a 1.0GHz ARM Cortex-A9 dual core processor, while the TZ5021XBG and TZ5023XBG are based on an 800MHz ARM Cortex-A9 dual core processor.

Semtech has introduced a complete Wireless M-Bus (WMBus) and WMBus over its LoRa RF software stack developed by STACKFORCE. The solution will simplify smart metering developments and significantly extend the range of metering deployments, which is a major challenge facing the industry today.

Why are our cars still so much smarter than our so-called Smart Homes? Various analyst groups and industry prognosticators have been tossing out some very big numbers. According to these fortune tellers, within the next few years, there will be hundreds of millions, tens of billions, even trillions of smart homes connected by the IoT.

Silicon Labs has introduced the industry’s first complete Wireless M-Bus platform solution, designed to simplify the development of wirelessly connected smart meters for electricity, gas, water and heat resources in the European market. Silicon Labs’ comprehensive smart metering solution includes the Wireless M-Bus software stack and wireless starter kits to speed time to market.

  How a long range, low-power spread spectrum technology capable of supporting millions of nodes could enable standardisation in the IoT. By Hardy Schmidbauer, Semtech.

Expanding its smart home portfolio, GreenPeak Technologies has announced a reference design for a low cost Passive Infra-Red (PIR) sensor with outstanding performance. Based on GreenPeak’s GP490 ZigBee communication chip, the reference design uses the patented antenna diversity mechanism for enhanced wireless range and full home coverage.