http://www.visualcapitalist.com/industrial-internet-things-next-big-growth-driver/ Infographic and article on promise of IIoT. The promise of this consumer-focused vision of IoT is to change how we interact with daily objects in our lives. When people talk about the IoT, they often bring up ideas such as the connected home, automobiles, or health – concepts that will change how we live →
http://www.open-electronics.org/eclipse-foundation-releases-iot-projects-the-universal-frameworks-for-iot-apps/ Eclipse Foundation announced the release of a number of Internet of Things projects. These include: Eclipse Kura (a framework for building IoT gateways); Eclipse Paho (implementations of MQTT protocols); Eclipse OM2M (an open source implementation of the SmartM2M and oneM2M standard) and Eclipse SmartHome (an open source framework for building smart home solutions). The Eclipse Kura 2.0 provides a way →
Expressif has released a new WiFi chip. It is not that interesting ESP32 that I have written about earlier, and should be available soon. The new ESP8285 went into mass production in March. Hackaday article describes it as ESP8266-Killer, but I I think that this kind of headline is clickbaiting. What could possible make it →
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/07/your-coffeemaker-is-watching-you/485597/?utm_source=atlfb In future house full of IoT gadgets you are never alone because technology is constantly watching you – for good and bad. →
Last year BBC introduced Micro:bit development board Intended to allow children to get creative with technology. The Micro:bit is one of the cornerstones of the BBC’s “Make it Digital” campaign. With Micro:bit BBC tries to get a million preteens into embedded development world as Micro:bit will be given to every 11 or 12 year old child →
https://reaktor.com/blog/garden-variety-iot-with-big-data-and-frp/ IoT home automation story. →
http://arstechnica.com/cars/2016/06/tech-firms-want-to-save-the-auto-industry-and-the-connected-car-from-itself/ Symantec has security software that monitors car’s CAN bus operation because connected cars need to be made more secure. →
Here is some very interesting reading related to the obvious buzzword of the year, The Internet of Things. This article series I was tipped to take a look is about embedded firmware hacking and reverse engineering of an IoT device, a TomTom Runner GPS Smartwatch. Hacking Smartwatches – the TomTom Runner, part 1 article introduces →
http://www.geek.com/news/asus-announces-the-600-zenbo-home-robot-1656642/ Reasonably priced but limited home robot. Someone needs to invent killer application for this, or this end to be just tablet on wheels. →
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/05/the-privacy-problem-with-digital-assistants/483950/?utm_source=atlfb Digital assistants will quickly get more information on you than you might expect or want them to get. That’s one price of convience they offer. →