Here are some IoT trends for year 2019 to watch:
More device: 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. There are computers, smart phones and many different kind of connected devices. Gartner forecasts that 14.2 billion connected things will be in use in 2019, and that the total will reach 25 billion by 2021,
Voice: The integration of voice into IoT devices creates an user experience that many consumers seem to enjoy. The next few years will see voice automation take over many aspects of our lives. The current major players in the IoT voice world are Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s Siri, and Google Assistant. Microsoft’s Cortana seems to have already lost in the game as Satya Nadella says Cortana won’t challenge Alexa and Google Assistant directly; Microsoft will focus on making it a skill on other voice platforms instead. Voice won’t change everything but it will be one part of a movement that heralds a new way to think about our relationship with devices and data. Consider voice as a type of user interface to be added to the existing list of UI technologies. Voice will not kill brands, it won’t hurt keyboard sales or touchscreen devices — it will become an additional way to do stuff; it is incremental. We need to learn to design around it.Deloitte expects the sales of 164 million smart speakers at an average price of $43 in 2019. The smart speaker market will be worth more than $7 billion next year, increasing 63% from 2018’s $4.3 billion.
Automobiles: Automobiles are leading the way in IoT adoption. Gartner predicts that one in five cars will be connected by 2020. Both Google and Apple have tools that allow drivers to control calls, listen to messages and control apps using voice.
IoT clouds: Developing for the Internet of Things is a complex endeavor, and nobody wants to do it from scratch. IoT data platforms offer a jumping-off point by combining many of the tools needed to manage a deployment from device management to data prediction and insights into one service. There are many IoT cloud platforms to choose from. All cloud platforms have their own distinctive areas of pros and cons. Ultimately the project needs and cost-effectiveness determine whom to choose. Utilizing cloud services also brings new potential risks that are good to understand already at the beginning of the project. I wrote on article to Uusiteknologia.fi magazine issue 2/2018 on IoT cloud platforms.
Digital Twins: Digital twin tech, or a virtual representation of a product, is a critical concept in IoT that’s still being sorted out. Digital twin refers to a digital replica of physical assets (physical twin), processes, people, places, systems and devices that can be used for various purposes. Definitions of digital twin technology emphasize two important characteristics: connection from the physical model to the corresponding virtual model and this connection is established by generating real time data using sensors. Physical objects and twin models interact. Digital twins applications typically integrate internet of things, artificial intelligence, machine learning and software analytics with spatial network graphs to create living digital simulation models that update and change as their physical counterparts change. In various industrial sectors, twins are being used to optimize the operation and maintenance of physical assets, systems and manufacturing processes.
Edge computing: The shift from centralized and cloud to edge architectures is well under way in the IoT space. In the future, computing the edge of the network will become an increasingly important way of processing data from networked devices and sensor networks. Compared to traditional centralized cloud computing, the new edge computing brings computing servers closer to the edge of the communications network. Compared to cloud centered IoT solutions, edge computing allow for lower delays and more reliable operation with respect to cloud services. At the same time, it promises improved security as not all potentially sensitive information needs to be transferred from the site to cloud. However, this is not the end point because the neat set of layers associated with edge architecture will evolve to a more unstructured architecture comprising of a wide range of “things” and services connected in a dynamic mesh. In thins kind of system data processing can be done on almost all network devices from IoT modules to gateways and in the future to 5G base stations. Relevant standardizing organizations on this field are Edge Computing Consortium Europe, OpenFog Consortium and Industrial Internet Consortium.
5G: 5G networks start to arrive. 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. 5G networks are expected to be 10 to 100 times faster than current LTE technology. If you are in need for very high speed, your application resides inside the small 5G test networks coverage areas and your IoT device is allowed to consume considerable amount of power (more than 4G solutions), then you might be able to consider 5G. For all other cases I don’t see 5G would offer much for IoT applications in 2019. There is not yet ready 5G standards specifically designed for IoT applications. So for 2019 IoT and IIoT will need to be pretty much stick to 4G technologies like NB-IoT and LTE-M. For 5G to shape industrial computing application in larger scale than just some small tests we will have to wait till 2020. Addressing the issues behind Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) devices and 5G is important in next few years. Qualcomm, the largest supplier of modem chips used in smartphones, has introduced the X50 modem to give IIoT devices the ability to communicate over 5G networks. Beware of “fake 5G” marketing in 2019. The promise is that 5G will enable the future enterprise technologies everyone is predicting and waiting for: fleets of self-driving delivery trucks, virtual (VR) and augmented reality (AR), and a world of enterprise Internet of Things (IoT) deployments — systems that will define an era that the World Economic Forum termed the “Fourth Industrial Revolution.” Those promises will take years to realize, you will not see most of them in real use in 2019.
AI: Number one in Gartner’s predictions, no surprise, is artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence and machine learning will be talked a lot with bold claims that AI goes from expert-only to everywhere. I would not expect it to be everywhere in 2019. Gartner, said in a statement, “AI will be applied to a wide range of IoT information, including video, still images, speech, network traffic activity, and sensor data.” At the moment many neural network systems are power hungry when implemented with traditional computer hardware. “For example, the performance of deep neural networks (DNNs) is often limited by memory bandwidth, rather than processing power.” By 2023, it’s expected that new special-purpose chips will reduce the power consumption required to run a DNN, enabling new edge architectures and embedded DNN functions in low-power IoT endpoints.
IIoT: The concept of a Smart Factory is composed of many different physical and informational subsystems, such as actuators and sensors, control systems, product management systems and manufacturing systems that all work together. This is a very complex system. It is critical to understand differing operational technology (OT) and information technology (IT) priorities to achieve collaboration and integration. Without this, Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and control projects will fail. Also finding the right Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) vendor partner is crucial to success. OPC Foundation has on initiative to extend OPC UA out to field devices to provide vendor-neutral, end-to-end interoperability beyond the plant. Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) network works well for OPC UA applications.
Value chain: IoT as an umbrella term will diminish. There are strong views that “Internet of things is not valuable in and of itself” so the conversation is going to shift away from an ambiguous buzzword to the actual use of technology. For product designers this means that when we design our connected world, we need to pull ourselves away from the cool technology that we are building and look at the system through our customers’ eyes. The sales pitch will be more like “It’s about the use cases, it’s about the solutions, it’s about the applications, managing and monitoring assets, performance management solutions, different kinds of solutions coming together to solve a problem—that’s really what the value proposition is.”
IoT platforms: IoT vendors will compete to be the destination for IoT platforms. The IoT supply chain has been moving toward more collaboration to provide development and design kits designed for specific use cases and industries. IoT development kits are sold more and more with bundled IoT could service offer. IoT cloud service providers offer and recommend hardware that is tested to work well with their platforms. IoT platform vendors will be narrowing their scope in 2019, honing in on specific use cases. Business professionals aren’t looking for one industrial IoT platform to manage every process going on at their company, they are instead looking for platforms that specialize in specific tasks.
New development kits: A new breed of development kits is incorporating the three tenets of IoT design — ease of use, security, and business value. The promise is that the design engineers don’t need to have specialized expertise in several areas like networking protocols or security-related tasks, enabling a much faster development time. One way to simplifying design work is by intelligently reusing the fundamental building blocks.
Security: Wireless IoT devices are considered a major threat to the security of industrial networks. A growing number of embedded systems are open to security threats as a result of increasing connectivity and IoT device adoption. And it’s costing OEMs a lot in terms of money and reputation. A 2018 Gartner Inc. survey found that nearly 20% of organizations surveyed experienced at least one IoT-based attack in the past three years. IoT security is already a 1.5 billion dollar market. The market research firm Garnet expects that global spending on IoT security will rise to $3.1 billion in 2021, up from $1.5 billion in 2018. It is not about the spending on IoT security products. Already “a significant portion of OEMs’ existing in-house labor cost is already dedicated to addressing security” and is rising faster than development costs. VDC pegs the worldwide embedded engineering labor spend related to security at $11.6 billion in 2017, representing nearly 8% of the overall cost of embedded engineering labor. There will be different kind of certification marks for IoT product cyber security – some mandated with laws on some countries and some voluntary. 5G is going to increase security risks. Do we understand the 5G security threats to come? Most probably not because we don’t seem to understand well even that 5G really is.
eSIM: The embedded SIM card has been spoken for a long time, and even the first smartphones in which the SIM card has been implemented with an integrated circuit have already been introduced to the market. Infineon has presented the world’s first industrially qualified eSIM. Of course, eSIM shares opinions. Many operators do not like it.
Infonomics and Data Broking: Last year’s Gartner survey of IoT projects showed 35 percent of respondents were selling or planning to sell data collected by their products and services.“Data is the fuel that powers the IoT and the organization’s ability to derive meaning from it will define their long term success,” This brings us to Social, Legal and Ethical IoT because“ Successful deployment of an IoT solution demands that it’s not just technically effective but also socially acceptable,” It is possible tha tIoT Firms Face a ‘Tidal Wave’ of Lawsuits.
IoT Governance: As the IoT continues to expand, the need for a governance framework that ensures appropriate behavior in the creation, storage, use and deletion of information related to IoT projects will become increasingly important. We also need to manage IoT devices to keep them secure and make sure that they do what they are supposed to do. A market for IoT managed services will develop to help manage and operate fragmented IoT assets. “The idea of managing the ongoing end-to-end life cycle of a connected product is becoming more important, and ultimately this managed service opportunity is going to need momentum in the coming year,”
New Wireless Technologies: IoT networking involves balancing a set of competing requirements, such as endpoint cost, power consumption, bandwidth, latency, connection density, operating cost, quality of service, and range. No single networking technology optimizes all of these.
Trusted Hardware and Operating System: Gartner surveys invariably show that security is the most significant area of technical concern for organizations deploying IoT systems. Today organizations often don’t have control over the source and nature of the software and hardware being utilised in IoT initiatives. “However, by 2023, we expect to see the deployment of hardware and software combinations that together create more trustworthy and secure IoT systems.
Home automation: Arm predicts that the intelligent home goes mainstream. In survey results they published two-thirds of respondents said technology became “more a part of my life” during 2018. Cisco Systems is 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. The market is starting slowly. Bundled IoT services will try to motivate a slow consumer market.
Smart cities: Cities are becoming smarter and smarter in an effort to improve efficiency in operations. Smart cities bring in both benefits and risks. Between smart lighting, traffic controls, and public transportation, smart cities are bringing in a whole new family of threat vectors. Cybercriminals will target smart cities with ransomware attacks. Smart cities need to take precautions.
Silicon Chip Innovation: “Currently, most IoT endpoint devices use conventional processor chips, with low-power ARM architectures being particularly popular. However, traditional instruction sets and memory architectures aren’t well-suited to all the tasks that endpoints need to perform,” New special-purpose chips will reduce the power consumption required to run a DNN. Very low power circuit designs are important in many applications. Battery-powered designs require complex optimizations for power in the context of area, performance and functionality. Devices that work without battery and gather operating power from environment are maybe even more challenging. Clearly, sensors are a big part of any connected device, and there is a lot of innovation occurring in this market that delivers new features — think AI — all housed in smaller packaging.
Open source: 2019 Will Be the Year of Open Source in IoT and embedded systems applications. From software and even hardware, we saw more activity in open source than ever before in 2018. And the momentum isn’t likely to slow down in 2019. Arduino is pushing strongly to IoT markets with MKR1000 series of IoT boards. Raspberry Pi is very widely used in IoT systems, especially on prototyping and small scale deployments
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Links to other articles for IoT trends for 2019:
Internet of Things in 2019: Five predictions
Kymmenen tulevaisuuden kuluttajatrendiä ja ilmiötä
Deloitte’s 9 tech predictions for 2019
New Chip Architectures, Sensors and Trust in Top 10 IoT Trends (Gartner presented its top 10 strategic IoT technology trends)
Week In Review: IoT, Security, Auto (predictions from Arm, Deloitte and Juniper Research)
Predictions 2019: The Internet Of Things
Gartner Identifies Top 10 Strategic IoT Technologies and Trends
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A Practical Guide to BLE Throughput
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Gerrit De Vynck / Bloomberg:
Nest is becoming less popular among residential builders as Google’s software changes impede Nest devices’ ability to connect with third-party IoT devices — – Google scraps Nest systems that worked with other devices — Residential builders are a growing part of smart-home market
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First smart speaker system that uses white noise to monitor infants’ breathing
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AI Toilets Can Scan Your Poop To Measure Your Health And Risk of Disease
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The future is incredible with its intelligence that keeps growing each day that goes by. Now, toilets will be able to scan your bodily waste and let you know about your state-of-health along with if you have any risk of disease. That’s impressive!
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Engineers At MIT Develop New Way To Use RFID Tags To Detect Chemicals In The Environment.
https://www.element14.com/community/groups/wireless/blog/2019/08/19/engineers-at-mit-develop-new-way-to-use-rfid-tags-to-detect-chemicals-in-the-environment
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Teardown: Bluetooth-enhanced LED bulb
https://www.edn.com/design/led/4462383/Teardown–Bluetooth-enhanced-LED-bulb
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Testing Bluetooth Low Energy Peripherals using a Python Script
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Migrating Russian eagles run up huge data roaming charges
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50180781?SThisFB
Russian scientists tracking migrating eagles ran out of money after some of the birds flew to Iran and Pakistan and their SMS transmitters drew huge data roaming charges.
After learning of the team’s dilemma, Russian mobile phone operator Megafon offered to cancel the debt and put the project on a special, cheaper tariff.
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The invasion of privacy potential is off the charts.
“Huang! You’ve been eating too much beef. This is against company policy. You are fired!”
Chinese Startup Develops Smart Toilet that Analyzes Human Waste
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/10/27/chinese-startup-develops-smart-toilet-that-analyzes-human-waste/
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Click To Pray — The Pope’s Dystopian eRosary
https://www.cyberpunks.com/click-to-pray/
David Rutland dives down the rabbit hole of religious technology and technofetishism. Does he disappear off the deep end?
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Helping more people with wearables: Google to acquire Fitbit
https://blog.google/products/hardware/agreement-with-fitbit
Today, we’re announcing that Google has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Fitbit, a leading wearables brand.
By working closely with Fitbit’s team of experts, and bringing together the best AI, software and hardware, we can help spur innovation in wearables and build products to benefit even more people around the world.
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This is how you get the dystopian cyberpunk triumph of corporate control
Leaked document reveals that Sidewalk Labs’ Toronto plans for private taxation, private roads, charter schools, corporate cops and judges, and punishment for people who choose privacy
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Following Pigs: Building An Injectable Livestock Tracking System
https://hackaday.com/2019/08/27/following-pigs-building-an-injectable-livestock-tracking-system/
A friend working with a large agricultural firm wanted an injectable RFID system to track pigs from birth to slaughter. I laid out the system architecture next to what I had from various proposed consumer tracking systems. I looked from pig to consumer, then consumer to pig again, and true to Orwellian archetype, it was impossible to say which was which. One thing was clear: I was going to waive my fee and build some demo hardware… I was too amused to do otherwise!
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Bio Implant Chip Tesla Model 3 Hack
Using the existing RFID implant chip I have in my hand to be able to start my Tesla
https://hackaday.io/project/162200-bio-implant-chip-tesla-model-3-hack
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The Amazon Dash Button: A Retrospective
https://hackaday.com/2019/08/27/the-amazon-dash-button-a-retrospective/
Mid 2015 Amazon introduced the Dash Replenishment Service along with a product to be it’s exemplar – the Dash Button. The Dash Button was to be the 1-Click button of the physical world.
Each button was purchased (for $5, with a $5 coupon) with a particular brand affinity, then configured online to purchase a specific product when pressed.
There were two versions of the Dash button. Both have the same user interface and work in fundamentally the same way. They have a single button (the software can recognize a few click patterns), a single RGB LED (‘natch), and a microphone (no, it didn’t listen to you, but we’ll come back to this). They also had a WiFi radio. Version two (silently released in 2016) added Bluetooth and completely changed the electrical innards, though to no user facing effect.
Right, why are we eulogizing a corporate strategy on Hackaday? The Dash Buttons were a clever hack! In a post-ESP8266 world, hardware like the Dash Button is the standard home automation starter project. But in 2015 when the Buttons were released the ESP was just starting to make waves. Up until that point, WiFi meant an unusual device like an Electric Imp or expensive ICs with an image of Texas on them. The market for low cost internet connected devices was very different, and much more expensive, back then.
Both generations of Dash button include a single microphone which receives the user’s network credentials via frequency shift keyed acoustic tones a hair below 20 kHz. Why 20 kHz and not above? The acoustic pairing method is designed to work anywhere there is a mic and a speaker. These requirements are so easily satisfied that Amazon could write the pairing flow to work on more than just a native app, allowing people to use anything from a Chromebook with a desktop browser to another Amazon device to go through the flow.
What hacks can you perform on a Dash Button? If people are going to begin throwing away these astonishingly cheap devices, can we give them another life?
Perhaps the first Dash hacks repurposed the devices without software or hardware hackery at all. When a Button is between presses, it is turned off to save power. Long term, even the occasional spikes to keep up with WiFi connection intervals would represent significant power consumption: the Dash Buttons are designed to last for years of normal usage, so they don’t stay connected. When you press the button, the device wakes up, toggles its LED to indicate liveliness, connects to WiFi, hits Amazon’s API, then drops back off the network and turns the lights out. When they connect to your local network they necessarily go through a few setup steps including broadcasting an ARP probe to make sure no one else is sharing the same MAC address.
Enterprising hackers realized that if you can watch traffic on your LAN then you can see these ARP probes, which include the device’s unique MAC address. And because of the very specific lifecycle of a Dash Button, if you can see the ARP probe then you can imply the device just woke up, which in turn means the button was just pressed.
Catching ARP probes works, but feels pretty rickety to me. These things have processors already so we should be able to make them do the talking themselves. What about programming the Dash Button? Unsurprisingly people have mapped out the board and established which test points go where. Neither version has particularly unusual parts
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Kotiverkon IoT-laitteiden tietoturva
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Mozilla WebThings: An Open Platform For Building IoT Devices
https://hackaday.com/2019/10/29/mozilla-webthings-an-open-platform-for-building-iot-devices/
Mozilla recently officially released their IoT platform. This framework comes with “Gateway” software that can run on a Raspberry Pi and a framework that can run on any number of devices.
WebThings comes with a lot out of the box. It comes with a user interface, logging, rules, and an easy-to-understand API. Likewise the actual framework allows for building on many common devices and can be written in Node, Python, Java, Rust, Micropython, and used as an Arduino library. This opens it up for everything from a eBay ESP32 to a particle board.
https://iot.mozilla.org/
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Henri Gört and Mehmet Yalcinkaya from Konecranes discuss how they migrated away from Microsoft SQL Server to collect data from over 20.000 cranes to Amazon DynamoDB. They also do some local edge processing using AWS Greengrass
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/running-safe-smart-and-connected-machines-on-aws/ #nosql #iot #edge
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Overcoming design obstacles in video doorbells
https://www.edn.com/design/consumer/4462408/Overcoming-design-obstacles-in-video-doorbells?utm_content=buffer61d65&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
Early releases of video doorbells were often plagued with video and audio issues such as false chimes and incoherent audio, but key features such as cloud backups, motion detection, video streaming, and two-way communications require seamless functionality to be useful. These demands, combined with the previous hardwired power constraints, create their own set of hardware challenges for modern video doorbell subsystems.
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https://hackaday.com/2019/11/07/found-footage-elliot-williams-talks-nexus-technologies/
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Plan Ahead: Roaming Charges Are A Killer
https://hackaday.com/2019/11/09/plan-ahead-roaming-charges-are-a-killer/
As the world gets more connected and computerized, it is easy to have an unintended consequence pop up and bite you. Especially because, so much of the time, today, things just work. The days of fretting over how to connect two computers, or how to store reasonable amounts of data are gone. Most of us never have to sift through assembly language programs finding three extra bytes to add a feature. Some Russian scientists recently found out about unintended consequences the hard way.
Roaming Russian eagles leave scientists broke
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Bangle.js is an open source, JavaScript and TensorFlow Lite-powered smartwatch: http://bit.ly/2qFF34A
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Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat:
Amazon brings Alexa to AWS IoT Core devices, lowering requirements for microprocessor type and RAM, now 1MB instead of 100MB, by offloading tasks to AWS
Amazon brings Alexa to AWS IoT Core devices
https://venturebeat.com/2019/11/25/amazon-brings-alexa-to-aws-iot-core-devices/
Amazon’s annual AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas — where the tech giant reliably announces a host of products heading to Amazon Web Services, its cloud platform — doesn’t kick off officially until next week. But that didn’t stop the tech giant from previewing a few of the highlights, the bulk of which relate to the internet of things (IoT).
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Network streaming telemetry: Monitoring in “real-time”
https://blog.paessler.com/network-streaming-telemetry-monitoring-in-real-time
When talking about network monitoring, most people think of SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) or WMI (Windows Measurement Instrumentation). But what is the difference and aren’t the two protocols already outdated?
Queries via WMI or SNMP are not obsolete by any means. On the contrary, SNMP is an essential basis for monitoring different devices. Especially if the devices are not from well-known manufacturers. The connection to an existing monitoring system is usually made via the MIB files (Management Information Base) provided by the manufacturer, which are then integrated using SNMP.
But which solution do you need if real-time monitoring is required or even mandatory? This is where the phrase streaming network telemetry comes into play.
Particularly when it comes to a manned mission, it is mandatory to constantly monitor the life support systems.
The main difference between the two approaches is that a monitoring system using the SNMP and WMI protocols pulls the information from the respective sensor, whereas in streaming telemetry the data is pushed in real time from devices such as switches or routers to a collector.
For many sensors in the IT environment, the transmission of information in real time is not necessary at all.
Even high-traffic networks can be optimized and monitored today without network streaming telemetry. One possibility is the use of sFlow which stands for “sampled flow” and works with statistical sampling of the data traffic to ensure scalability for interfaces with high data volumes.
This technology provides low CPU and data line load as well as detailed data collection. NetFlow can also be an interesting alternative – introduced by Cisco and supported by several vendors.
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Maersk Backs Danish IoT Startup
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Tulevaisuuden kunnossapito – miksi yrityksesi kannattaa kiinnittää huomiota kunnossapitodataan nyt?
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Google Home Hub Review: Best Device With Big Smart Home Powers
https://www.habytes.com/google-home-hub-review/
What is Google Home Hub?
Basically it is the next step of Google Assistant. It has auto built assistant it recognize your voice commands while using a hub.
The screen of google home is 7 inches LCD display and also have built-in full-range speakers
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This Adafruit Industries FeatherWing provides a practical platform for air quality measurements.
https://www.hackster.io/news/the-iaq-sensor-wing-makes-for-a-compact-indoor-air-quality-measurement-platform-1c0333973da9
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Andrew O’Hara / AppleInsider:
Apple open sources parts of its HomeKit Accessory Development Kit allowing anyone to prototype HomeKit devices — Apple has published an open-source version of its HomeKit Accessory Development Kit, allowing more users to experiment with the development of HomeKit accessories.
Apple open-sources HomeKit Accessory Development Kit to spur adoption, grow new standard
https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/12/19/apple-open-sources-homekit-accessory-development-kit-to-spur-adoption-and-new-standard
Apple has published an open-source version of its HomeKit Accessory Development Kit, allowing more users to experiment with the development of HomeKit accessories. The release is designed to accelerate development of a new universal smart home standard created by a consortium of companies including Apple, Amazon, Google and the Zigbee Alliance.
http://www.etn.fi/index.php/13-news/10266-applen-johdolla-kehitetaan-uutta-protokollaa-alykoteihin
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Everything New with HomeKit in iOS 13
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=PTqLX5R-308&feature=emb_logo
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Todd Haselton / CNBC:
Apple, Amazon, Google, and the Zigbee Alliance announce a partnership to create a universal smart home standard, called the “Project Connected Home over IP”
Apple, Google and Amazon are cooperating to make your home gadgets talk to each other
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/18/apple-google-amazon-zigbee-partner-on-smart-home.html
Amazon, Apple, Google and the Zigbee Alliance announced a new partnership.
It’s called Project Connected Home over IP, and it will work to create a new standard that will make it easier for the fragmented ecosystem of smart home products to work together.
Right now, Amazon, Google, Apple and others compete in the smart home space, but this has only created headaches for consumers and companies that make smart home products.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Make digital twins easier to implement for manufacturing industries
https://www.controleng.com/articles/make-digital-twins-easier-to-implement-for-manufacturing-industries/?oly_enc_id=0462E3054934E2U
International: Move from vision to reality: It’s time to embrace digital twins for manufacturing. Benefits include more efficient digital transformations and more effective asset monitoring and performance.
New digital twin cloud applications and services with 4-D visualization and open programming ecosystem provide more opportunities and possibilities for manufacturing digital twins. Bentley Systems and its strategic partners announced the latest software and services of digital twins on Oct. 20 at Bentley’s Year in Infrastructure (YII) 2019 Conference in Singapore.
After Bentley and Siemens launched the PlantSight cloud service in 2018, the two companies developed a new digital twin service for Capital Asset Lifecycle Management (CALM), which works within Siemens’ Teamcenter across the enterprise to advance and improve capital program decision-making. PlantSight and Teamcenter CALM are powered by Bentley’s iTwin Services, launched at YII 2019, using digital engineering content from building information modeling (BIM) design tools and multiple data sources, enabling 4-D visualization of digital twins, and logging of engineering changes along a project timeline, to provide an accountable record of who changed what and when.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Connectivity explained
https://www.kone.com/en/news-and-insights/stories/connectivity-explained.aspx?utm_medium=social_paid&utm_source=Facebook&utm_campaign=GL-EN-DX-LAUNCH&utm_content=connectivity_explained&utm_term=LAL_VIDEO_SHORT
Connectivity is to a city what the nervous system is to a person: a way to carry information for analysis. When more and more elements of cities become connected, our built environments can start to offer increasingly personalized services and solutions to make our everyday lives easier.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Sozu Building-Scale Monitoring System Harvests Activity Energy to Run Without Batteries
Clever battery-free monitoring tags harvest from a range of energy sources, including movement, vibration, airflow, and even EM radiation.
https://www.hackster.io/news/sozu-building-scale-monitoring-system-harvests-activity-energy-to-run-without-batteries-3e5b4f09e28f
Tomi Engdahl says:
Amazon, Apple, Google and Zigbee join forces for an open smart home standard
https://techcrunch.com/2019/12/18/amazon-apple-google-and-zigbee-join-forces-for-an-open-smart-home-standard/
The biggest names in the connected home category are reaching across the aisle to create an open-source standard. Marquee names Amazon, Apple, Google and the Zigbee Alliance are leading the charge here.
There are a number of key partners on the board, as well, including Ikea, Legrand, NXP Semiconductors, Resideo, Samsung SmartThings, Schneider Electric, Signify (nee Philips Lighting), Silicon Labs, Somfy and Wulian.
The goals certainly seem solid from the outset. The Connected Home over IP project seeks to create a connectivity standard designed to increase compatibility across companies and devices.
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Any fans of Amsterdam out there? Well as one of the first European cities to launch a smart city program there is certainly a lot to
From promoting sustainable energy sources to increasing mobility options, check out everything the city is doing in the name of “smart!”
Amsterdam’s Smart City: Ambitious Goals, Collaborative Innovation
https://mobility.here.com/amsterdams-smart-city-ambitious-goals-collaborative-innovation
The aim of Amsterdam’s 10-year-old smart city initiative is a high quality of living, sustainable economic development, and efficient use of natural resources. Evolving projects include open data platforms, smart grids, smart housing, distributed energy storage, smart mobility, and improved connectivity.
Ambitious Goals, Open Data
In 2009, Amsterdam was one of the first European cities to launch a smart city program, with the goal of improving its economy, environment, government, living, and mobility.
Amsterdam created an open database uniting 12,000 data sets from all 32 city districts, with data including addresses, land value, healthcare, traffic, and education. The city pioneered the idea of open sourcing the data, making it openly available to citizens and innovators since 2012.
Tomi Engdahl says:
A new industrial espionage xmas gift!
Honeywell “surveillance muffs”!
“The headsets continuously collect and transmit noise-related data to Honeywell Safety Suite, a cloud-based service that automates and streamlines the collection and reporting of critical safety intelligence.”
https://www.honeywell.com/en-us/newsroom/pressreleases/2019/10/honeywell-smart-hearing-solution-combines-connected-headsets-with-cloud-software-to-protect-workers-from-noise-related-injuries
Honeywell Smart Hearing Solution Combines Connected Headsets With Cloud Software To Protect Workers From Noise-Related Injuries
Visual dashboard of noise patterns and exposure levels helps reduce health risks and improve safety programs
Tomi Engdahl says:
With ingestible pill, you can track fart development in real time on your phone
First human trials reveal gut gas chambers and blustery effects of diet.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/01/with-ingestible-pill-you-can-track-fart-development-in-real-time-on-your-phone/
Tomi Engdahl says:
From the edge to sustainability: five IoT trends driving change in 2020
https://www.ericsson.com/en/blog/2019/12/from-the-edge-to-sustainability-five-iot-trends-driving-change-in-2020
As we look ahead into 2020 and begin to understand the impact 5G will have across all industries, the implementation of IoT solutions will play an increasing role across business applications and throughout society. The rapid deployment of 5G networks around the globe and an uptick in 5G subscriptions will drive an increase in the number of IoT connected devices worldwide.
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The New Arduino Portenta
Designed for industry, and the Internet of Things.
https://www.hackster.io/news/the-new-arduino-portenta-5ae687010500
Announced today at CES is the Arduino Portenta H7 module. Despite visual similarities to their other MKR form factor boards, and putting aside the lack of classic Arduino blue color, this new board isn’t really like other Arduinos. Designed for industry, not makers, the new Portenta is rather different.
increasingly newer boards from Arduino use the more modern MKR form factor, while the return of the Arduino Nano has allowed the company to remain competative at the cheaper end of the market.
It’s arguable that the original Arduino Developoment Environment was one of the things that, a decade ago, drove the success of the Arduino. However these days, it is showing its age. So perhaps the biggest amongst the indicators was the arrival of the Arduino Pro Development Environment, announced at the tail end of last year at Maker Faire Rome.
The new Portenta module announced today is the first product in what it to become a new family of boards. It is built around an STMicroelectronics STM32H747, with a dual-core Arm Cortex-M7 and a Cortex-M4 on chip, running at 480MHz and 240MHz, respectively. Designed and rated for industrial applications, it can operate in temperatures between -40 and 85°C.
Though the Portenta H7 module is capable of running Arduino code natively, there is also support to run Arduino code on top of the Arm Mbed OS open source IoT operating system, to provide “enterprise grade” features while still retaining the familiar Arduino development environment.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Remote control your IoT device with secure tunneling and ultra-high performance!
A simple and high-performing P2P solution like the Nabto platform has many advantages that other solutions lack. Read more about which benefits here:
Secure Tunneling: Azure IoT Device Stream vs AWS IoT Device Management vs Nabto IoT Platform
https://www.nabto.com/secure-tunneling
The two solutions, the AWS IoT Device Management and the Azure IoT Device Stream have a lot in common, but compared to the Nabto IoT platform they still lack some important features when it comes to performance and user privacy. In the following, we will take a closer look into how the secure tunneling in the Nabto IoT platform differs from these.
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Industrial internet groups unify memberships
https://www.controleng.com/articles/industrial-internet-groups-unify-memberships/?oly_enc_id=0462E3054934E2U
The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) and the Trusted IoT Alliance (TIoTA) announced they are combining their memberships and will work together to drive industry collaboration and research.