Here is a list f IoT predictions for year 2018. With the number of connected devices set to top 11 billion – and that’s not including computers and phones – in 2018, Internet of Things will clearly continue to be a hot topic. Here is my prediction list:
1. Artifical Intelligence – it will be talked a lot
2. Blockchain – blockchain will be hyped to be a solution for many IoT problems, and it will turn out that it is not the best solution for most of problems it is hyped for – and maybe it will find few sensible uses for it in IoT. Blockchain can add immutability and integrity to some IoT transactions.
3. 4G mobile for IoT: NB-IoT and LTE-M are ready to be tested or used in many markets
4. 5G will be hyped a lot for IoT applications but it is nowhere near for any real big IoT use cases
6. Security issues will be talked a lot. IoT security is far from solved issue.
7. Privacy issues of IoT will be talked a lot when our homes and pockets are starting to be filled with ever listening digital assistants.
8. Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) will be massive
9. More CPU power will be added or used in the edge. Pushing processing power to the “edge” brings a number of benefits and opportunities.
10. Hardware based security: Hardware based security on microprocessors will be talked a lot after “Meltdown” and “Spectre” disaster
Links to more predictions:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/danielnewman/2017/12/19/the-top-8-iot-trends-for-2018/#17a9943267f7
https://www.ibm.com/blogs/internet-of-things/top-5-iot-trends-in-2018/
https://www.inc.com/james-paine/3-internet-of-things-trends-to-watch-in-2018.html
https://www.i-scoop.eu/iot-2018-1/
https://dzone.com/articles/iot-trends-for-2018
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Choose the right accelerometer
https://www.controleng.com/articles/choose-the-right-accelerometer/
Comparing vibration sensor technologies for condition monitoring, which are increasingly being used for high volume, smaller machinery.
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Kodin älylaitteet yleistyvät vauhdilla, mutta tietoturva ja lainsäädäntö laahaavat perässä – “Kameralla varustettua laitetta voidaan seurata”
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The Internet of Disposable Things Will Be Made of Paper and Plastic Sensors
https://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/materials/the-internet-of-disposable-things-will-be-made-of-paper-and-plastic-sensors
This imagined scene of salvation by smartphone captures just one of many anticipated Internet of Things applications. IoT is possible now because of the convergence of low-cost, low-power components, specifically microprocessors, cellular radios, Wi-Fi radios, and MEMS sensors. There’s also a proven market for aggregated IoT data on consumer behaviors, known as big data. IHS Markit, a research firm that tracks and analyzes the electronics industry, predicts that the global volume of IoT devices will more than quadruple, from 27 billion connected devices in 2017 to 125 billion in 2030.
To say that the semiconductor industry is excited would be a huge understatement. Underlying that excitement is a major assumption—that all of these components will be made using silicon, leveraging existing billion-dollar chip factories known as fabs. But that assumption is wrong. Disposable sensors that sniff out the safety of your future sausage won’t be made on silicon. Instead they’ll be printed directly on the paper or plastic packaging.
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The Alexa-enabled Big Mouth Billy Bass and other twerking toys go on sale
https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/28/the-alexa-enabled-big-mouth-billy-bass-is-real-and-now-for-sale/?sr_share=facebook&utm_source=tcfbpage
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Our exclusive partnership with Arduino set to fuel the growth of IoT in Australia
https://exchange.telstra.com.au/our-exclusive-partnership-with-arduino-set-to-fuel-the-growth-of-iot-in-australia/
As part of the tie-up we will soon release the new Arduino MKR NB 1500 IoT developer board in Australia. It supports Narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) and LTE Cat M1 networks and is specifically designed to enable rapid innovation, field trials and deployments of cellular connected devices.
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Google Teams with Microchip for AVR-IoT Cloud-Connected 8-Bit Microcontroller
https://blog.hackster.io/google-teams-with-microchip-for-avr-iot-cloud-connected-8-bit-microcontroller-6e2fbe5078bf
Google and microcontroller manufacturer Microchip recently released the AVR-IoT WG (Wi-Fi/Google) development board
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Two-phase synchronisation: A new method for coarse phase synchronisation
https://www.edn.com/5G/4461344/Two-Phase-Synchronisation–A-new-method-for-coarse-phase-synchronisation?utm_source=Aspencore&utm_medium=EDN&utm_campaign=social
Whilst NB-IoT is heavily based on the LTE protocol, the synchronisation signals have been completely redesigned to enable deployment inside and adjacent to LTE carriers.
In order to improve efficiency and performance of the synchronisation process, a pseudo-random code is used to generate the OFDM symbols, as depicted in Figure 3. This code is predetermined and enables the NPSS to be known to the device. However, the significant uncertainty in timing and frequency of the transmitted signal results in NPSS detection having a high processing overhead for the device.
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ENEMMÄN TUOTTAJIA, JOUSTAVAMPAA KULUTUSTA – 5G KETTERÖITTÄÄ SÄHKÖVERKKOA
https://www.telia.fi/yrityksille/artikkelit/artikkeli/5g-ketteroittaa-sahkoverkkoa?utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=B2B_sisältö_nostot_&utm_medium=social_paid&utm_content=link+%7C+5g+energiasektorilla
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A first look at the Arduino MKR1500 for LTE Narrowband & LTE-M connectivity
https://www.thingforward.io/techblog/2018-11-14-a-first-look-at-arduinos-mkr1500-for-lte-narrowband-lte-m-connectivity.html
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Detecting Food Contamination Using the RFID Tags Already on the Containers
https://blog.hackster.io/detecting-food-contamination-using-the-rfid-tags-already-on-the-containers-a7862456d69
Food contamination is a serious issue
Government regulations and penalties should be strong enough to prevent that from happening, but implementing that is a lot easier said than done. In the mean time, MIT researchers have come up with a way to detect contamination using RFID tags.
Putting food-safety detection in the hands of consumers
http://news.mit.edu/2018/food-safety-rfid-detection-consumers-1114
Simple, scalable wireless system uses the RFID tags on billions of products to sense contamination.
MIT Media Lab researchers have developed a wireless system that leverages the cheap RFID tags already on hundreds of billions of products to sense potential food contamination.
The technology hinges on the fact that certain changes in the signals emitted from an RFID tag correspond to levels of certain contaminants within that product. A machine-learning model “learns” those correlations and, given a new material, can predict if the material is pure or tainted, and at what concentration. In experiments, the system detected baby formula laced with melamine with 96 percent accuracy, and alcohol diluted with methanol with 97 percent accuracy.
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The Wize protocol: the new trendy IoT standard
https://www.allwize.io/blog/the-wize-protocol-the-new-trendy-iot-standard
The Wize protocol is an Internet of Things (IoT) standard that has been created by the Wize Alliance in late 2017. It is a Low Power Wide Area Network (LPWAN) which leverages the old and refurbished 169MHz frequency.
The frequency was once used for pagers, and when they became out of fashion the frequency was repurposed for gas and water metering applications under the Wireless M-Bus European standard (EN 13757-4).
Wize: an open standard for IoT
Huge corporations such as Suez and GRDF have been using the 169MHz frequency in the past 10 years for their smart meters. They have actually already developed a dense and sound network of Wize infrastructures across Europe.
Suez has deployed 3,5 millions connected water meters across Europe
The frequency is free to use not just for gas and water metering but also for the Internet of Things. The Wize Alliance was created
With AllWize you can deploy and become the operator of your own network of very cheap gateways
you can consider leveraging an existing Wize network (mainly in Europe
Wize technology has a battery life of up to 20 years
it’s bidirectional and symmetrical
Sigfox is not bidirectional, LoRa is but not symmetrical.
Extreme LPWA board for IoT using the Wize protocol
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1230929587/extreme-lpwa-arduino-board-for-iot-using-the-wize?ref=project_link
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People Who Buy Smart Speakers Have Given Up on Privacy, Researchers Find
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/vba7xj/people-who-buy-smart-speakers-have-given-up-on-privacy-researchers-find
Smart speakers raise a number of privacy questions, which owners are choosing to just shrug off.
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Why Alphabet’s Glucose Sensor Failed
https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human-os/biomedical/devices/why-alphabets-glucose-sensor-failed
Alphabet’s announcement that it would stop trying to build an accurate glucose monitor in a contract lens likely came as no surprise to the many scientists who have tried, and failed, to build such a sensor.
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The economics and tradeoffs of ad-funded smart city tech
https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/01/the-economics-and-tradeoffs-of-ad-funded-smart-city-tech/?sr_share=facebook&utm_source=tcfbpage
Third-parties can help build smart infrastructure at no cost to cities if the conditions are right, but outside ownership comes with key tradeoffs to consider.
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Shop Safe This Holiday Season
https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/?utm_campaign=Email%20Newsletter&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=67998689&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_Cwq0fLoD-jlLVyuXFEZFJdyHPH8n8UIBoGJwEru4t76cDw4t118CIf2rQFfkwcuH-2ve6–jH_nVdu5bzh88E9iE_eaGHrQjfgxQL2a1lSwJhmhs&_hsmi=67998689
Teddy bears that connect to the internet. Smart speakers that listen to commands. Great gifts—unless they spy on you. We created this guide to help you buy safe, secure products this holiday season.
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Eliminating the blame game: How to test and certify your network for IoT readiness
https://www.cablinginstall.com/articles/print/volume-26/issue-11/features/testing/eliminating-the-blame-game-how-to-test-and-certify-your-network-for-iot-readiness.html?cmpid=enl_cim_cim_data_center_newsletter_2018-12-03&pwhid=6b9badc08db25d04d04ee00b499089ffc280910702f8ef99951bdbdad3175f54dcae8b7ad9fa2c1f5697ffa19d05535df56b8dc1e6f75b7b6f6f8c7461ce0b24&eid=289644432&bid=2315028
You need more than ever from your test equipment in the age of IoT, PoE, and multiple link speeds.
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Embedded vision is changing how people, machines interact
https://www.controleng.com/articles/embedded-vision-is-changing-how-people-machines-interact/
Embedded vision immerses the user in a more natural way by allowing the products to better augment our existing capabilities.
Embedded vision technology changes machines and the ways people interact with them. From smart phones to automobiles, embedded vision transforms the function and capabilities of the products people use every day. Embedded vision immerses the user in a more natural way by allowing the products to better augment our existing capabilities.
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Arm Drops Cordio BLE IP
https://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1334028
Arm is abandoning development of its Cordio hardware IP for low-power wide-area network (LPWAN) applications based on the NarrowBand IoT standard, but will continue to concentrate on the Cordio BLE software stack, EE Times has learned.
In recent weeks, Arm shuttered its office in Lund, Sweden, and Loughborough, U.K., cutting jobs and halting work on Cordio. While the Lund office was focused on NB-IoT solutions, the Loughborough office was working on Arm’s image signal processor.
“We are proposing to reshape Arm’s IoT device IP strategy and to stop work on Arm Cordio hardware IP, which includes LPWAN technology and personal area network [PAN],” a senior spokesman for Arm told EE Times.
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Why is Continuous Glucose Monitoring So Hard?
https://hackaday.com/2018/12/03/why-is-continuous-glucose-monitoring-so-hard/
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Dumb thermostat provides power smarts without software
https://www.edn.com/electronics-blogs/power-points/4461351/Dumb-thermostat-provides-power-smarts-without-software-?utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=link&utm_medium=EDNFunFriday-20181130
classic Honeywell T-86 thermostat
the existing one had been there for at least 30, and maybe 40 or 50 years.
A brief online search revealed that this thermostat was introduced in 1953; I couldn’t find when it was formally discontinued, but it wasn’t that long ago. Millions were sold worldwide and many of them are still in use. The basic design is so ingrained that Honeywell offers an electronic unit with the same fit and form factor, for those who like the simplicity
hat replacement has a long-life Lithium battery which should be good for 10-20 years.
The objective of this thermostat is simple and reliable: to provide a switch closure between two leads (a “hot” one, usually at 24 VAC, and a common) to call for heat when the ambient sensed temperature drops below the setpoint threshold; and to separate those leads when it goes above the that setpoint. What’s interesting is that it doesn’t use any electronics or electrical power; instead, it uses a spiraled bimetallic strip which expands and contracts in length and thus curls/uncurls with temperature increases or decreases.
The reliability of this unit is a consequence of its operating principle and design and is proven by its long-term performance in the field.
Still, the designers of this very effective solution to temperature control faced the same problem that all on-off (also called “two-position” or “bang-bang”), non-proportional control systems face: the tradeoff between the accuracy band around the setpoint versus on-off cycling rate
The problem is well known, as is the first step to a solution: add a little hysteresis to the loop
Have you even resorted to a simple, non-software solution to a problem, even if a microcontroller was conveniently available?
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Week in Review: IoT, Security, Auto
Smart homes; fed indictments; GM’s woes.
https://semiengineering.com/week-in-review-iot-security-auto-21/
Lowe’s, the home improvement retailer, is giving up on the smart home market. The company is putting its Iris Smart Home business up for sale as part of a reorganization. The retailer made a big splash at CES 2015 with its Innovation Lab offerings, which included retail service robots and the Holoroom “home improvement simulator.” The Iris product line includes multiple Iris-branded products for the home, along with products from Bosch, First Alert, General Electric, Honeywell, Nest Labs, Swann, and other manufacturers. The Iris Smart Hub ties it all together.
Cisco Systems has a contrasting perspective on smart home automation, saying connected homes will be a big driver for the Internet of Things. “Connected home applications, such as home automation, home security and video surveillance, connected white goods, and tracking applications, will represent 48%, or nearly half, of the total M2M connections by 2022, showing the pervasiveness of M2M in our lives,” Cisco states in its new white paper, Visual Networking Index: Forecast and Trends, 2017-2022.
AT&T and Emerson Electric employed IoT technology to help keep about 7,400 tons of food waste out of landfills during the past year.
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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
TrackR, maker of Bluetooth trackers for physical objects, rebrands as Adero, a system to organise multiple groups of items using three or more smart tags
TrackR rebrands to Adero, pivots to finding whereabouts of groups of items
https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/03/trackr-rebrands-to-adero-pivots-to-finding-whereabouts-of-groups-of-items/
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How Apple’s HomePod uses AI and 6 mics to hear users through ambient noise
https://venturebeat.com/2018/12/03/how-apples-homepod-uses-ai-and-6-mics-to-hear-users-through-ambient-noise/
Apple’s HomePod hasn’t won much praise for the capabilities of its integrated digital assistant Siri, but it does have one undeniably impressive feature: the ability to accurately hear a user’s commands from across the room, despite interference from loud music, conversations, or television audio. As the company’s Machine Learning Journal explains today, HomePod is leveraging AI to constantly monitor an array of six microphones, processing their differential inputs using knowledge gained from deep learning models.
Optimizing Siri on HomePod in Far‑Field Settings
https://machinelearning.apple.com/2018/12/03/optimizing-siri-on-homepod-in-far-field-settings.html
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AI on the edge will kick IoT market adoption, not 5G
https://blogs.sas.com/content/hiddeninsights/2018/10/05/ai-on-the-edge-will-kick-iot-market-adoption-not-5g/
When we talk about the widespread use of the IoT, we must keep in mind three major aspects organisations are considering when they deploy devices: price (including device and communication costs – data volumes and bandwidth), coverage and power consumption. So the challenge is how to optimise these three key decision factors while implementing an IoT solution.
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How to automate an existing manual valve
Automating an existing valve instead of replacing it can save time and reduce costs.
https://www.controleng.com/articles/how-to-automate-an-existing-manual-valve/
Sometimes process requirements change and it becomes necessary to replace an existing manual process valve with an automated on/off or control valve. Instead of pulling the old valve out of service and replacing it with a new valve, users should consider automating the existing valve. If the valve is in good condition and has the means to mount an actuator, automating it can save time and money.
The preferred method is to remove the valve from the line and automate it in the maintenance shop, but that is not always possible. If you choose to automate the existing valve inline, make sure the valve is not under pressure and follow the plant’s lockout tagout (LOTO) procedures before working on the valve.
To start, identify the size, make, and model of the valve. Consult the valve manufacturer’s literature or consult with a manufacturer’s representative for the torque (rotary valves) or thrust (linear valves) requirement of the valve. Ask the manufacturer or the representative if it is recommended to automate the valve.
Determine the additional safety factor you want to add to the manufacturer’s recommended torque and add it to the manufacturer’s torque. This safety factor will ensure the valve will operate even if the air supply drops slightly or if the mounting kit binds slightly and increases the required torque. Also, as an actuator wears and air bypasses the pistons, the torque output will start to decrease.
Determine the desired function of the actuator and make sure it is the proper size.
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Powering IoT devices with small rechargeable batteries
https://e2e.ti.com/blogs_/archives/b/fullycharged/archive/2016/03/29/powering-iot-devices-with-small-rechargeable-batteries?HQS=app-null-null-smarthome-asset-blog-ElectronicDesign-wwe&DCM=yes&partnerref=TIPwrWk2Em1B
There are four times as many devices connected to the Internet as there are people in the world, and the number of devices is increasing rapidly. The Internet of Things (IoT) enables businesses, communities and individuals to gather data through connected devices.
Wearable devices such as activity monitors and smart watches are the most common IoT devices today.
IoT devices need power at all times. Many are powered from primary batteries, although rechargeable batteries are becoming more common. Even if the device is primarily powered by an A/C connection, often a battery backup is needed to ensure that data can be captured or stored during a power outage. Additionally, some devices are moved around such as temperature and humidity sensors, motion detectors, and asset trackers. For these devices, you can also implement a simple wireless recharging solution.
Most IoT devices include a sensor array, a microcontroller (MCU), Bluetooth® or Wi-Fi radio, and power management.
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https://www.uusiteknologia.fi/2018/12/05/nokia-nakee-iot-uhkien-pahenevan/
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Analyze data quality for process control systems
https://www.controleng.com/articles/analyze-data-quality-for-process-control-systems/
Data obtained from process analyzers need to be trusted and verified to help the user make an informed decision. Considerations include communications reliability, analyzer status, and logic platform.
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Pindrop raises $90M to bring its voice-fraud prevention to IoT devices and Europe
https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/05/pindrop-raises-90m-to-bring-its-voice-fraud-prevention-to-iot-devices-and-europe/?utm_source=tcfbpage&sr_share=facebook
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The internet of prototype things
By Chris Edwards
Published Thursday, October 4, 2018
https://eandt.theiet.org/content/articles/2018/10/the-internet-of-prototype-things/
Aren’t there meant to be billions of IoT nodes by now? There could be: it’s just going to take time to work out what they need to do.
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Salesforce wants to deliver more automated field service using IoT data
https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/05/salesforce-wants-to-deliver-more-automated-field-service-using-iot-data/?utm_source=tcfbpage&sr_share=facebook
Salesforce has been talking about the Internet of Things for some time as a way to empower field service workers. Today, the company announced Field Service Lightning, a new component designed to deliver automated IoT data to service technicians in the field on their mobile devices.
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IoT vapauttaa digitaalisen toimipaikkaviestinnän paikan kahleista
https://www.dna.fi/yrityksille/blogi/-/blogs/iot-vapauttaa-digitaalisen-toimipaikkaviestinnan-paikan-kahleista?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=artikkeli&utm_term=ioT&utm_campaign=liittymat&utm_content=iot_vapauttaa_digitaalisen_toimipaikkaviestinnan_paikan_kahleista
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Secure eSIM Technology with flexibility and convenience
https://wireless.electronicspecifier.com/wireless/secure-esim-technology-with-flexibility-and-convenience
Infineon has been supplying approximately 10 billion security chips for plug-in SIM cards since the late 1990s and has shipped more than 200 million embedded SIM chips for emerging applications such as M2M communication or emergency Call for cars.
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Debug Networked Embedded IoT Systems with WiFrost
https://blog.hackster.io/debug-networked-embedded-iot-systems-with-wifrost-161bc1a8ba19
One of the main drawbacks in designing remote IoT projects is the ability to debug hardware and software issues without having to interface with them directly. Imagine having a LoRa-based sensor platform deployed miles away from your location, and having to make the trip to figure out if there is a coding error or network protocol issue that’s keeping the platform from running smoothly.
WiFrost is a debugging IDE, which functions using a logic analyzer and router with custom software to grab program and network activity.
https://jeremywrnr.com/papers/Wifrost-UIST2018.pdf
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Control your Embedded Linux remotely by using MQTT and a web interface
https://speakerdeck.com/arduino/control-your-embedded-linux-remotely-by-using-mqtt-and-a-web-interface
To manage remotely your IoT device without knowing the IP address of the device we used MQTT and a set of custom go libraries. With this architecture Arduino Create Agent allows users to deploy container remotely. A journey on Docker client, APT command line, sockets, systemd and much more on Arm and Intel Linux devices.
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The economics and trade-offs of ad-funded smart city tech
https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/01/the-economics-and-tradeoffs-of-ad-funded-smart-city-tech/
Third-parties can help build smart infrastructure at no cost to cities if the conditions are right, but outside ownership comes with key trade-offs to consider
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Giving a flexible edge to the IoT
https://semiengineering.com/giving-a-flexible-edge-to-the-iot/
How flexible sensors will revolutionize electronics as we know them.
As the Internet of Things (IoT) continues to revolutionize our daily lives, the demand for smaller, smarter, and more diverse flexible technology has never been greater. Increasingly complex demands have driven the development of smart sensors to monitor everything from velocity and proximity to pressure, humidity, and more. Future devices will need to interact with the ambient environment by performing intelligent activities such as fingerprint, vein, and odor recognition, with sensors so small and flexible that they can be integrated into almost anything.
Giving a flexible edge to the IoT
https://community.arm.com/arm-research/b/articles/posts/giving-a-flexible-edge-to-the-iot
How can you make ML work on plastic?
The consortium believes that customized processing engines such as neural networks (NNs) are the key to accelerating development of low-cost and customized flexible, integrated smart systems. Customized for a specific application and capable of operating in extremely parallel fashion to achieve high performance, and consume low power, this will be the first time that a flexible smart device has been created to take advantage of machine learning algorithms in hardware.
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http://www.etn.fi/index.php/13-news/8817-superkondensaattori-ompelemalla-vaatteeseen
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Maailman tihein IoT-verkko – 1500 radiota kuutiometrillä
http://www.etn.fi/index.php/13-news/8814-maailman-tihein-iot-verkko-1500-radiota-kuutiometrilla
Wirepas onnistui ahtamaan 1500 paristokäyttöisen solmun mesh-verkon yhden kuutiometrin tilaan.
Tiheystestissä käytössä oli Nordicin nRF52832-radiopiirit. Wirepas on samalla raudalla toteuttanut esimerkiksi Noken Smart Locks -toteutuksen
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http://www.etn.fi/index.php/tekniset-artikkelit/8819-roima-parannus-iot-verkkojen-tietoturvaan
Langattomia IoT-laitteita pidetään merkittävänä uhkana teollisuuden tietoverkkojen turvallisuudelle. Tietoturvassa voidaan kuitenkin päästä roimasti paremmalle tasolle soveltamalla TLS-suojausmenettelyn virtaviivaistettua johdannaista, jonka avulla ei-IP-pohjaiset IoT-solmut voidaan turvallisesti liittää IP-pohjaisiin verkkoihin. Vahva tietoturva voidaan näin kattaa koko verkkojärjestelmän päästä päähän.
Arviot toisiinsa kytkettyjen IoT-verkkosolmujen lukumääristä vaihtelevat, mutta yksi asia on varma: melko pian lähitulevaisuudessa tuo luku tulee kasvamaan kymmeniin miljardeihin. Esimerkiksi markkinoita analysoiva IHS-yhtiö ennustaa, että vuoteen 2020 mennessä käytössä on kaikkiaan 30,7 miljardia IoT-solmua ja tämän jälkeen lukema yli kaksinkertaistuu viidessä vuodessa.
Suurimmassa osassa tapauksista IoT-solmut tullaan liittämään nykyisiin verkkoihin hyödyntämällä niukasti tehoa kuluttavia langattomia tekniikoita (Bluetooth, 802.11x, ZigBee, Z-Wave jne). Tässä piilee kuitenkin ongelma, jonka yritykset tulevat kohtaamaan. Tämänkaltaiset järjestelyt nimittäin jättävät runsaasti mahdollisuuksia tietoturvarikkomuksille joko teollisuusvakoilun tai jopa vihamielisten hyökkäysten muodossa.
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Intel’s Faith McCreary considers some of the pain points in IIoT and the transformation to Industry 4.0 plus five strategies for making it easier.
Five Strategies for Leading an Intelligent Factory Transformation
https://blogs.intel.com/iot/2018/12/03/five-strategies-for-leading-an-intelligent-factory-transformation/
For leaders working to engage their entire workforce in support of intelligent factory transformation, here are five strategies to consider:
1. Share the vision of the intelligent factory and the path forward with everyone in your organization, including line workers and managers.
2. Engage workers who may be impacted by change.
3. Connect and integrate processes and involve stakeholders at all levels, inside and outside of the company. Industry 4.0 and the IIOT technologies that support it are not static solutions.
4. Invest in ongoing workforce training. Education and training will prepare workers for technology transformation while helping to ensure the cultural and behavioral evolution needed to support change. Leaders committed to Industry 4.0 need to avoid the misconception that training will increase attrition rates, and instead view workforce training as part of the company’s investment in building new skills.
5. Prepare for change by making the intelligent factory transformation part of a new company mindset. As we discussed in another recent blog post, change is constant.
The Intelligent Factory Transformation Is a Journey, Not a Destination
https://blogs.intel.com/iot/2018/11/21/the-intelligent-factory-transformation-is-a-journey-not-a-destination/
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Distraught Mom Pens Letter to Amazon CEO Claiming Daughter Named Alexa Is Constantly Bullied
“I write to you as a father and human being rather than the CEO of Amazon” Alexa’s mom wrote
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Distraught-Family-Pens-Letter-to-Amazon-Over-Bullying-Issues-With-Daughter-Who-Shares-Name-With-Alexa-Device-Jeff-Bezos-CEO-Massachusetts-501659891.html
A distraught mom has sent a letter to Amazon pleading with the company to help stop the bullying she says her 6-year-old daughter has experienced from sharing the same name with its virtual assistant device Alexa.
“Mr. Bezos, I write to you as a father and human being rather than the CEO of Amazon,” she said. “We are not asking for wealth or recognition from this request. We just want to correct an error we believe was a giant mistake.”
Tomi Engdahl says:
Week in Review: IoT, Security, Auto
Warehouse robots; 2019 predictions; Siemens buys COMSA.
https://semiengineering.com/week-in-review-iot-security-auto-22/
DHL Supply Chain reports that it will spend $300 million to install Internet of Things sensors and collaborative robots in its North American warehouses,
The U.S. House of Representatives passed the SMART IoT Act on a voice vote, sending the bill over for the Senate to consider during the current lame-duck session. The SMART in the title of H.R. 6032 stands for “State of Modern Application, Research, and Trends.”
The Nokia Threat Intelligence Report 2019 is out, saying IoT botnets are responsible for 78% of malware detection events seen this year. Other conclusions: IoT bots make up 16% of infected devices; malware-based crypto coin mining has expanded from high-end servers to IoT devices, smartphones, and browsers; Android malware variants grew 31% in a year and now number nearly 20 million.
Sierra Wireless executives shared their 2019 predictions for the IoT, security, and automotive.
Tomi Engdahl says:
“OK, TI Help Develop My Product”: Design Resources for Personal Electronics
https://www.electronicdesign.com/industrial-automation/ok-ti-help-develop-my-product-design-resources-personal-electronics?code=NN6TI143&utm_rid=CPG05000002750211&utm_campaign=21957&utm_medium=email&elq2=5941a82481154de888bdbfe50a6b2004
Sponsored by Texas Instruments: Reference designs, interactive block diagrams, and more can be tapped into that focus on applications in the personal electronics arena, such as VR/AR headsets and smart speakers.
Tomi Engdahl says:
The evolution of converged networks: Why IoT is here to stay
https://www.cablinginstall.com/articles/2018/10/belden-converged-networks-iot-henry-franc.html?cmpid=enl_cim_cim_data_center_newsletter_2018-12-10&eid=289644432&bid=2321428
Convergence (version 2.0) is here, and, to survive, we need to adjust, change and adapt to our changing environment. We cannot build networks for today (and for the future) like we have built them in the past, lest we go the way of the dodo bird.
Let’s look at the changes and improvements made since the first converged network (Convergence 1.0).
The IoT world is here, and the level and rate of convergence is increasing in volume and velocity. IoT is a nebulous concept – hence all the cloud analogies. It will continue to morph as technologies evolve along with those that use it. Your corporate IoT cloud will look different from mine, and that’s okay.
Our TIA TR-42 (Telecommunications Cabling Systems ANSI/TIA-568 family), BICSI (TDMM and others) and proprietary or third documents must adapt and adjust. Whether they be specifications, standards or best-practice resources, they must evolve or face irrelevance (extinction, to extend the metaphor).
Convergence 1.0 so they can be ready for 2.0, which is happening now. “We’ve always done it this way” might as well have been the mantra of the dodo bird.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Dirty Data: Is the Sensor Malfunctioning?
https://semiengineering.com/dirty-data-is-the-sensor-malfunctioning/
Why sensor data needs to be cleaned, and why that has broad implications for every aspect of system design.
Every day the IoT motion-sensor company MbientLab struggles to tactfully teach its customers that the mountain of data they are seeing is not because the sensors are faulty. Instead, the system design that incorporates those sensors is missing some crucial step in the data cleaning process.
“I battle this every day,” said MbientLab CEO Laura Kassovic in a recent presentation, warning engineers just how difficult training IoT wearables with machine learning can be. Tools and hardware have improved over the years, but basic understanding for dealing with the data is still lagging, she said.
Tomi Engdahl says:
element14 Essentials: IoT I
https://www.element14.com/community/docs/DOC-88372/l/element14-essentials-industrial-iot?ICID=essentials-iot-module&_ga=2.32530747.442063952.1539616247-523373362.1538756965&CMP=OAD-PUB-inf-rfy1118-iiotess
Tomi Engdahl says:
New software helps with industrial cloud, AI, microservices from IoT summit
https://www.controleng.com/articles/new-software-helps-with-industrial-cloud-ai-microservices-from-iot-summit/
Control Engineering China: Advantech announced its Internet of Things (IoT) platform architecture and solution ready packages (SRP) at the Advantech IoT summit in Suzhou, China.
WISE-PaaS 3.0 provides four functional modules to assist with industrial upgrades:
WISE-PaaS/SaaS Composer, which is a process visualization cloud configuration tool that can import application scenarios into 3-D modeling drawing and interaction.
WISE-PaaS/AI Framework Service (AFS): Artificial intelligence (AI) model training and deployment service framework provides a simple drag-and-drop interface, allowing developers to import industrial data combined with artificial intelligence algorithms to establish an effective inference engine that can automatically deploy to edge computing platforms.
WISE-PaaS/Asset Performance Management (APM): This equipment networking remote operation and maintenance service framework can interface with many on-site industrial equipment control and communication protocols.
Microservices development framework: The microservices development framework is designed to assist developers, quickly generate microservices design framework, reduce development threshold. At the same time, there are flexible mechanisms for microservices such as service discovery, load balancing, service management, and configuration center.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Three ways location intelligence and IIoT make pipeline asset management easier
https://www.controleng.com/articles/three-ways-location-intelligence-and-iiot-make-pipeline-asset-management-easier/
If the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is integrated with location intelligence it can help midstream oil & gas operations to manage pipeline assets, mitigate potential risks, and optimize new pipeline routes.
The divide between the physical and digital world in the oil & gas sector is getting smaller every day. As a result, companies are looking to improve their ability to respond to constant changes. The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) can play a major role. IIoT generates value by delivering real-time, actionable data about the physical world to other systems or software for efficient response.
Networks of devices and systems connected by IIoT have the potential to deliver productivity and profitability improvement.
However, exploiting Big Data—including data gathered via the IIoT—can be complex. Pairing IIoT with location intelligence helps simplify data processing and analysis by providing location-based context and spatial awareness.
Tomi Engdahl says:
How recent IIoT developments are shaping 5G wireless
https://www.controleng.com/articles/how-recent-iiot-developments-are-shaping-5g-wireless/
Addressing the issues behind Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) devices to help with mobile industrial computing applications.
The standards for 5G will be defined in large part by the direct integration of Internet of Things (IoT) and Industrial IoT (IIoT) devices into global networks and devices. Researchers seeking to impact 5G technologies are focused on how to properly introduce this new species of computing into the mobile networking ecosystem.
Popular focus on the development of smart manufacturing technologies like cyber-physical systems (CPSs) reveals the energy behind the movement to create wireless standards that conform to the needs of IIoT devices. Cyber-physical developments, which are impacted by wireless connectivity, are an example of a system that will be enhanced by 5G standards and technology.