The Internet of Things revolution started in 2015 and will continue to be strong in 2016. 2015 was the year everyone talked about the Internet of Things. (So was 2014. And 2013.) But unlike before, it was the year everyone started making plans, laying groundwork, and building the infrastructure. Internet of Things is coming. It’s not a matter of if or whether, but when and how. The premise of IoT is that a connected world will offer gains through efficiency.
The Internet of Things (IoT) has been called the next Industrial Revolution — it will change the way all businesses, governments, and consumers interact with the physical world. The Internet of Things (IoT) is an environment in which objects, animals or people are provided with unique identifiers and the ability to transfer the data over a network without requiring human-to-human or human-to-computer interaction. IoT has evolved from the convergence of wireless technologies, micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS)
and the Internet. IoT is also called the Internet of Everything. A critical component for the IoT system to be a success will be secure bi-directional communication, mobility and localization services.
In the future, everything will be connected. It won’t just be our phones that access the Internet; it will be our light bulbs, our front doors, our microwaves, our comforters, our blenders. You can call it the Internet of Things, The Internet of Everything, Universal Object Interaction, or your pick of buzzwords that begin with Smart. They all hold as inevitable that everything, everything will be connected, to each other and to the Internet. And this is promised to change the world. Remember that the objects themselves do not benefit us, but what services and functions they make it possible to obtain. We will enjoy the outcome, hopefully even better quality products, informative and reliable services, and even new applications.
There will be lots of money spend on IoT in 2016, the exact sum is hard to define, but it is estimated that nearly $6 trillion will be spent on IoT solutions over the next five years. IoT is now a very large global business dominated by giants (IBM, Intel, Cisco, Gemalto, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Bosch, GE, AT&T, T-Mobile, Telefonica and many others). I see that because it is still a young and quickly developing market, there will be lots of potential in it for startups in 2016.
There will be a very large number of new IoT devices connected to Internet in the end of 2016. According to Business Insider The Internet of Things Report there was 10 billion devices connected to the internet in 2015 and there will be will be 34 billion devices connected to the internet by 2020. IoT devices will account for 24 billion, while traditional computing devicesw ill comprise 10 billion (e.g. smartphones, tablets, smartwatches, etc.). Juniper research predicted that by 2020, there will be 38.5 billion connected devices. IDC says it’ll be 20.9 billion. Gartner’s guess? Twenty-five billion. The numbers don’t matter, except that they’re huge. They all agree that most of those gadgets will be industrial Internet of Things. The market for connecting the devices you use all day, every day, is about to be huge.
Businesses will be the top adopter of IoT solutions because they see ways the IoT can improve their bottom line: lowering operating costs, increasing productivity, expand to new markets and develop new product offerings. Sensors, data analytics, automation and wireless communication technologies allow the study of the “self-conscious” machines, which are able to observe their environment and communicate with each other. From predictive maintenance that reduces equipment downtime to workers using mobile devices on the factory floor, manufacturing is undergoing dramatic change. The Internet of Things (IoT) is enabling increased automation on the factory floor and throughout the supply chain, 3D printing is changing how we think about making components, and the cloud and big data are enabling new applications that provide an end-to-end view from the factory floor to the retail store.
Governments are focused on increasing productivity, decreasing costs, and improving their citizens’ quality of life. The IoT devices market will connect to climate agreements as in many applicatons IoT can be seen as one tool to help to solve those problems. A deal to attempt to limit the rise in global temperatures to less than 2C was agreed at the climate change summit in Paris in December 2015. Sitra fresh market analysis indicates that there is up to an amount of EUR 6 000 billion market potential for smart green solutions by 2050. Smart waste and water systems, materials and packaging, as well as production systems together to form an annual of over EUR 670 billion market. Smart in those contests typically involves use of IoT technologies.
Consumers will lag behind businesses and governments in IoT adoption – still they will purchase a massive number of devices. There will be potential for marketing IoT devices for consumers: Nine out of ten consumers never heard the words IoT or Internet of Things, October 2015! It seems that the newest IoT technology extends homes in 2016 – to those homes where owner has heard of those things. Wi-Fi has become so ubiquitous in homes in so many parts of the world that you can now really start tapping into that by having additional devices. The smart phones and the Internet connection can make home appliances, locks and sensors make homes and leisure homes in more practical, safer and more economical. Home adjusts itself for optimal energy consumption and heating, while saving money. During the next few years prices will fall to fit for large sets of users. In some cases only suitable for software is needed, as the necessary sensors and data connections can be found in mobile phones. Our homes are going to get smarter, but it’s going to happen slowly. Right now people mostly buy single products for a single purpose. Our smart homes and connected worlds are going to happen one device, one bulb at a time. The LED industry’s products will become more efficient, reliable, and, one can hope, interoperable in the near future. Companies know they have to get you into their platform with that first device, or risk losing you forever to someone else’s closed ecosystem.
The definitions what would be considered IoT device and what is a traditional computing devices is not entirely clear, and I fear that we will not get a clear definition for that in 2016 that all could agree. It’s important to remember that the IoT is not a monolithic industry, but rather a loosely defined technology architecture that transcends vertical markets to make up an “Internet of everything.”
Too many people – industry leaders, media, analysts, and end users – have confused the concept of
“smart” with “connected”. Most devices – labeled “IoT” or “smart” – are simply connected devices. Just connecting a device to the internet so that it can be monitored and controlled by someone over the web using a smart phone is not smart. Yes, it may be convenient and time saving, but it is not “smart”. Smart means intelligence.
IoT New or Not? YES and NO. There are many cases where whole IoT thing is hyped way out of proportion. For the most part, it’s just the integration of existing technologies. Marketing has driven an amount of mania around IoT, on the positive side getting it on the desks of decision makers, and on the negative generating ever-loftier predictions. Are IoT and M2M same or different? Yes and no depending on case. For sure for very many years to come IoT and M2M will coexist.
Nearly a dozen contenders are trying to fill a need for long distance networks that cut the cost and power consumption of today’s cellular machine-to-machine networks. Whose technology protocols should these manufacturers incorporate into their gear? Should they adopt ZigBee, Apple’s HomeKit, Allseen Alliance/AllJoyn, or Intel’s Open Interconnect Consortium? Other 802.15.4 technologies? There are too many competing choices.
Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, two pioneers of the Internet of Things are expanding their platforms and partnerships. Crowdfunding sites and hardware accelerators are kicking out startups at a regular clip, typically companies building IoT devices that ride Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. Bluetooth Special Interest group is expected to release in2016 support for mesh networks and higher data rates.
Although ZWave and Zigbee helped pioneer the smart home and building space more than a decade ago, but efforts based on Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and 6LoWPAN are poised to surpass them. Those pioneering systems are actively used and developed. Zigbee Alliance starts certification for its unified version 3.0 specification in few months (includes profiles for home and building automation, LED lighting, healthcare, retail and smart energy). EnOcean Alliance will bring its library of about 200 application profiles for 900 MHz energy harvesting devices to Zigbee networks. Zigbee will roll out a new spec for smart cities. The Z-Wave Security 2 framework will start a beta test in February and Z-Wave aims to strike a collaboration withleading IoT application framework platforms. Zigbee alredy has support Thread.
The race to define, design and deploy new low power wide area networks for the Internet of Things won’t cross a finish line in 2016. But by the end of the year it should start to be clear which LPWA nets are likely to have long legs and the opportunities for brand new entrants will dim significantly. So at the moment it is hard to make design choices. To protect against future technology changes, maybe the device makers should design in wireless connectivity chips and software that will work with a variety of protocols? That’s complicated and expensive. But if I pick only one technology I can easily pick up wrong horse, and it is also an expensive choice.
Within those who want to protect against future technology changes, there could be market for FPGAs in IoT devices. The Internet of Things (IoT) is broken and needs ARM-based field programmable gate array (FPGA) technology to fix it, an expert told engineers at UBM’s Designers of Things conference in San Jose. You end up with a piece of hardware that can be fundamentally changed in the field.
There seems to be huge set of potential radio techniques also for Internet of Things even for long distance and low power consumpion. Zigbee will roll out a new spec for smart cities in February based on the 802.15.4g standard for metro networks. It will compete with an already crowded field of 900 MHz and 2.4 GHz networks from Sigfox, the LoRa Alliance, Ingenu and others. Weightless-P is an open standard announced by Weightless SIG, which operates at frequencies below one gigahertz. Weightless-P nodes and development cards will be expected to be in the market already during the first quarter of 2016, at the moment Weightless IoT Hardware Virtually Unavailable.
I expect LoRa Technology is expected to be hot in 2016. The LoRaWAN standard enables low-data-rate Internet of Things (IoT) and Machine-to-Machine (M2M) wireless communication with a range of up to 10 miles, a battery life of 10 years, and the ability to connect millions of wireless sensor nodes to LoRaWAN gateways. LoRa® technology works using a digital spread spectrum modulation and proprietary protocol in the Sub-GHz RF band (433/868/915 MHz). I see LoRa technology interesting because lots of activity around in Finland in several companies (especially Espotel) and I have seen a convincing hands-in demo of the LoRa system in use.
It seems that 3GPP Lost its Way in IoT and there is fragmentation ahead in cellular standards. In theory 3GPP should be the default provider of IoT connectivity, but it seems that it has now failed in providing one universal technology. At the moment, there are three major paths being supported by 3GPP for IoT: the machine-type version of LTE (known as LTE-M) and two technologies coming from the Cellular-IoT initiative — NB-IoT and EC-GSM. So here we are with three full standardization efforts in 3GPP for IoT connectivity. It is too much. There will like be a base standard in 2016 for LTE-M.
The promise of billions of connected devices leads everyone to assume that there will be plenty of room for multiple technologies, but this betrays the premise of IoT, that a connected world will offer gains through efficiency. Too many standard will cause challenges for everybody. Customers will not embrace IoT if they have to choose between LTE-M and Sigfox-enabled products that may or may not work in all cases. OEM manufacturers will again bear the cost, managing devices at a regional or possibly national level. Again, we lose efficiency and scale. The cost of wireless connectivity will remain a barrier to entry to IoT.
Today’s Internet of Things product or service ultimately consists of multiple parts, quite propably supplied by different companies. An Internet of Things product or service ultimately consists of multiple parts. One is the end device that gathers data and/or executes control functions on the basis of its communications over the Internet. Another is the gateway or network interface device. Once on the Internet, the IoT system needs a cloud service to interact with. Then, there is the human-machine interface (HMI) that allows users to interact with the system. So far, most of the vendors selling into the IoT development network are offering only one or two of these parts directly. Alternatives to this disjointed design are arising, however. Recently many companies are getting into the end-to-end IoT design support business, although to different degrees.
Voice is becoming more often used the user interface of choice for IoT solutions. Smartphones let you control a lot using only your voice as Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung have their solutions for this. For example Amazon, SoundHound and Nuance have created systems that allow to add language commands to own hardware or apps. Voice-activated interface becomes pervasive and persistent for IoT solutions in 2016. Right now, most smart home devices are controlled through smartphones, and it seems like that’s unlikely to change. The newest wearable technology, smart watches and other smart devices corresponding to the voice commands and interpret the data we produce – it learns from its users, and generate as responses in real time appropriate, “micro-moments” tied to experience.
Monitoring your health is no longer only a small group oriented digital consumer area. Consumers will soon take advantage of the health technology extensively to measure well-being. Intel Funds Doctor in Your Pocket and Samsung’s new processor is meant for building much better fitness trackers. Also, insurance companies have realized the benefits of health technologies and develop new kinds of insurance services based on data from IoT devices.
Samsung’s betting big on the internet of things and wants the TV to sit at the heart of this strategy. Samsung believes that people will want to activate their lights, heating and garage doors all from the comfort of their couch. If smart TVs get a reputation for being easy to hack, then Samsung’s models are hardly likely to be big sellers. After a year in which the weakness of smart TVs were exploited, Samsung goes on the offensive in 2016. Samsung’s new Tizen-based TVs will have GAIA security with pin lock for credit card and other personal info, data encryption, built-in anti-malware system, more.
This year’s CES will focus on how connectivity is proliferating everything from cars to homes, realigning diverse markets – processors and networking continue to enhance drones, wearables and more. Auto makers will demonstrate various connected cars. There will be probably more health-related wearables at CES 2016, most of which will be woven into clothing, mainly focused on fitness. Whether or not the 2016 International CES holds any big surprises remains to be seen. The technology is there. Connected light bulbs, connected tea kettles, connected fridges and fans and coffeemakers and cars—it’s all possible. It’s not perfect, but the parts are only going to continue to get better, smaller, and cheaper.
Connectivity of IoT devices will still have challeges in 2016. While IoT standards organizations like the Open Interconnect Consortium and the AllSeen Alliance are expected to demonstrate their capabilities at CES, the industry is still a ways away from making connectivity simple. In 2016 it will still pretty darn tedious to get all these things connected, and there’s all these standards battles coming on. So there will be many standards in use at the same time. The next unsolved challenge: How the hell are all these things going to work together? Supporting open APIs that connect with various services is good.
Like UPnP and DLNA, AllJoyn could become the best-kept secret in the connected home in 2016 — everyone has it, no one knows about it. AllJoyn is an open-source initiative to connect devices in the Internet of Things. Microsoft added support for AllJoyn to Windows in 2014.
Analysis will become important in 2016 on IoT discussions. There’s too much information out there that’s available free, or very cheaply. We need systems to manage the information so we can make decisions. Welcome to the systems age.
The rise of the Internet of Things and Web services is driving new design principles. The new goal is to delight customers with experiences that evolve in flexible ways that show you understand their needs. “People are expecting rich experiences, fun and social interactions… this generation gets bored easily so you need to understand all the dimensions of how to delight them”
With huge number of devices security issues will become more and more important. In 2016, we’ll need to begin grappling with the security concerns these devices raise. The reality of everything being connected can have unintended consequences, not all of them useful – Welcome to the Internet of stupid (hackable) things.
Security: It was a hot topic for 2015 and if anything it will get hotter in 2016. The reason is clear. By adding connectivity embedded systems not only increase their utility, they vastly increase their vulnerability to subversion with significant consequences. Embedded systems that add connectivity face many challenges, of which the need for security is both vital and misunderstood. But vendors and developers have been getting the message and solutions are appearing in greater numbers, from software libraries to MCUs with a secure root of trust.
Bruce Schneier is predicting that the IoT will be abused in conjunction with DMCA to make our lives worse instead of better. In theory, connected sensors will anticipate your needs, saving you time, money, and energy. Except when the companies that make these connected objects act in a way that runs counter to the consumer’s best interests. The story of a company using copy-protection technology to lock out competitors—isn’t a new one. Plenty of companies set up proprietary standards to ensure that their customers don’t use someone else’s products with theirs. Because companies can enforce anti-competitive behavior this way, there’s a litany of things that just don’t exist, even though they would make life easier for consumers.
Internet of Things is coming. It’s not a matter of if or whether, but when and how. Maybe it’ll be 2016, maybe the year after, but the train is coming. It’ll have Wi-Fi and Bluetooth and probably eight other things, and you’ll definitely get a push notification when it gets here.
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Tomi Engdahl says:
Top Internet of Things Trends for 2016
https://www.eeweb.com/company-blog/ibm/top-internet-of-things-trends-for-2016/
Implementing automated processes
The Internet of Things is going to help connect enterprises to capabilities they can rely on without having to manage processes manually. IoT implementations in 2016 will provide transactional integrity, make it easy to construct services, bring more data together and make sense out of that data. Several technologies are expected to drive these expectations forward.
Blockchain
Why is everyone so interested in a blockchain, and what does that interest mean for the Internet of Things? A blockchain is beginning to play a major part in the Internet of Things by enhancing security, enabling inclusion of low-value devices to be increasingly viable and making managing a device easier for decades to come.
Application programming interfaces
The Internet of Things is the killer app for cloud, especially for hybrid clouds that are emerging as the primary model for the Internet of Things. As a result, application programming interfaces (APIs) and a sound strategy around them is becoming increasingly important to enterprises. APIs serve as a bridge to connect useful information and plentiful data to the Internet of Things, making the Internet of Things useful by connecting many disparate things into a powerful network that offers astounding possibilities.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Cognitive IoT
https://www.eeweb.com/company-blog/ibm/cognitive-iot/
Today, as IBM opens the doors to the world headquarters for our IBM Watson IoT business in Munich, Germany, we’re making a bold statement about what it will take to reap the full benefits of the Internet of Things—the addition of cognitive technologies. We’re asserting our global leadership of a “movement” that billions of people will benefit from and many organizations will help propel forward.
IBM has a broad portfolio of technologies for managing the data gathered from sensors. We’re working with the UK’s utility provider, National Grid, to proactively maintain the health of the grid, keeping the lights on across Britain. We’re working with Vodafone in Spain to analyze information from sensors in cities—energy, water, emergency management, healthcare—to improve operations and the quality of life. And, in Germany, we’re working with Robert Bosch to develop smart, connected automobile products.
These days, about 90 percent of the data that’s gathered by sensors is lost or thrown away for a variety of reasons—including bandwidth limitations and constraints driven by security and privacy. In addition, a wealth of unstructured data is available from sources ranging from news Web sites to call centers to social networks. With our new cognitive IOT capabilities and Watson, our clients can combine all of these diverse sources of data in real time, understand what’s going on more deeply, and derive valuable insights.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Devices Send Events over HTTP to IoT Foundation
https://www.eeweb.com/company-blog/ibm/devices-send-events-over-http-to-iot-foundation
What’s changed?
You now have more choices about how your device communicates with IoT Foundation. When publishing messages to IoT Foundation you can use:
MQTT
MQTT over WebSockets
HTTP – New!
Why might you want to use it?
MQTT is a great protocol for the Internet of Things and offers reliable and lightweight communication. But, as a device developer, sometimes you find you’re constrained by the libraries available in a particular environment, or existing code. Your device might be trapped behind a firewall which only allows communication over port 80.
The widespread availability of HTTP client support means that almost any device can now easily publish data into the Internet of Things Foundation.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Meter All The Phases: Three Phase Energy Meter With OpenWrt
http://hackaday.com/2016/05/25/meter-all-the-phases-three-phase-energy-meter-with-openwrt/
Keeping track your overall electricity usage is a good thing, and it’s even better if you know where all the kilowatt-hours are going. [Anurag Chugh’s] house has the three phases coming from the electrical distribution box tidily organized: One for the lighting and fans, one for household appliances, and one for the hot water supply. To monitor and analyze the electrical fingerprint of his house, [Anurag] installed a 3 phase energy meter and hooked it up to the internet.
[Anurag] acquired a Selec MFM383C 3-phase meter with Modbus interface and three current transformers, one for each phase. After everything was wired up and installed in the electrical distribution panel, he hooked up an Android tablet to the meter using a USB to RS485 bridge. He started reading out the Modbus registers from the meter using the monitoring app. After verifying that the app was reading sensible values, he went on to configure an OpenWrt router to connect it up to the Internet.
With the router up and running, he wrote a compact OpenWrt package to read out the data from the energy meter through a command line interface. A cron job periodically executes a little script which polls the meter and uploads the data points to an Initial State account. There, the collected data can be further processed and graphed through an appealing web interface.
Internet Connected Energy Meter
http://www.electronicsfaq.com/2016/05/internet-connected-energy-meter.html
Cross compile .ipk including lib dependences for OpenWRT on Ubuntu 15.10 x64
http://www.electronicsfaq.com/2016/05/cross-compile-ipk-including-lib.html
Initial State
https://initialstate.com/
Modbus Monitor Advanced
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.Bhavan.Galex
Android Modbus Master/Client and Slave/Server for phones and tablets. The Modbus Monitor utility is simple but have many advanced features unmatched even by PC based standards. This is the only Modbus App in the Android store with three Apps in one!!! (Modbus Master, Modbus Server, and Sensors Server in Modbus TCP).
Interfaces: Bluetooth, Ethernet, Wi-Fi, USB OTG Serial ports.
Tomi Engdahl says:
SHT11 + Particle Photon (running matrixSSL) + InitialState.com
http://www.electronicsfaq.com/2016/05/sht11-particle-photon-running-matrixssl.html
Now days microcontroller platform for IoT devices are becoming more and more powerful so much so that they can now sport an HTTPS stack and hence send telemetry to an HTTPS capable data broker like initialstate.com. Which means no need for any linux based gateway/hub – you can do away with your Raspberry Pi as a go between your microcontroller node and the internet.
You ask why would some one want to do that? Simple – lesser the number of components in your system, lesser the points of failure.
So, I wanted to explore if it was possible to use a Particle Photon to send data directly to initialstate.com and recently it just became possible when a few good folks ported an SSL library to Spark Photon.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Ultra-Dense 3-D Packaging for IoT
Smoltek Beats Moore’s Law
http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1329757&
Smoltek AB (Gothenburg, Sweden) is dedicated to superseding Moore’s Law, which merely scales the size of transistors, with what it believes is the more urgent need to reduce the size of electronic packages. After all, the smaller the package the thinner the smartphone or other Internet of Thing (IoT) device. Today’s System on chip (SoC) and System in Package (SiP) technologies are good starts, according to Smoltek. However, the continued scaling down of the size of packages with novel technologies will be the legacy of the 21st century, Smoltek believes. The company claims to have solved the major bottleneck facing package shrinking with its 3-D carbon-based nanostructure interconnects.
“Today Smoltek’s patented technology enables controlled growth—meaning growth at the location of the function—of conductive carbon nanostructures on a substrate at just 390 degrees Celsius using CMOS compliant materials and processes,”
Tomi Engdahl says:
IoT Security is Imec Target
Program develops lightweight embedded crypto
http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1329760&
Engineers need to plug security holes in the Internet of Things, according to Imec launching a program with that goal. Separately, the research institute based here announced progress developing an alternative solar photovoltaic technology that could both disrupt and enhance today’s mainstream approach.
Imec is seeking partners for a new research program that will develop a lightweight security model for wearables and sensor nodes, spanning hardware and software techniques such as distance-bounded protocols and unclonable functions. It will use its own prototype health sensor, MuseIC, as the first vehicle for adding new crypto IP blocks, later expanding to radio chips.
Chip design firm Barco Silex and the Holst Centre in the Netherlands are the first partners in the program which leverages Imec’s acquisition in February of iMinds, a Belgian software research group and developer of the widely used Advanced Encryption Standard. The institute now has a European Union grant to develop a version of elliptic curve cryptography that draws less than five microjoules.
“IoT was not in our minds when we developed AES so if a pacemaker used it, for example, it would probably run out of battery in a year,”
Tomi Engdahl says:
Apple To Open Up Siri To Developers, Release An Amazon Echo Competitor
https://apple.slashdot.org/story/16/05/24/223205/apple-to-open-up-siri-to-developers-release-an-amazon-echo-competitor
According to a new report from The Information, Apple is finally ready to let Siri grow up. Specifically, the publication relays that Apple will finally offer official Siri APIs to developers, thus paving the way for third-party integrations, the kind that Amazon Echo users can’t seem to get enough of. Things like ordering an Uber or pizza are currently impossible, because Siri is locked down by Apple
Apple Opening Siri, Developing Echo Rival
https://www.theinformation.com/apple-opening-siri-developing-echo-rival
Tomi Engdahl says:
Easy expandability of the IoT systems
pmod configuration of FPGA-based controller card is a powerful and versatile tool for sensor node networks and other IoT systems developers. It provides a comprehensive range of easily scalable solutions that enable designers to quickly, reliably and inexpensively meet the challenges of building systems.
Many of the Internet of Things (IoT) related to the development aspects remain unresolved. Only it is certain that there will be no ‘normal’, but each accompanied by IoT system object or a thing is specifically designed to meet the desired goals. In addition, commercial pressures require that these objectives are achieved as cost-effectively.
For some time the FPGA circuits have provided the necessary scalability at a low, transistors and gate level. A similar approach can also be utilized at a higher level and thus expand the design concept. To achieve this are now available effective ways, such as developed by Digilent PMOD-standard (Peripheral Modules). This flexible interface standard covers a wide range of accessory modules that take advantage of the relatively low frequencies and low terminal pin numbers.
The popularity of the standard systems provides developers with access to a vast surpass anything that provides new functionality in a format that is easy to test and evaluate the ‘plug and play’ basis. It is not very surprising that such a modular design is now seen as an effective way to speed up the IoT systems design work tailor-made solutions.
in order to increase the sensors ‘everywhere’ is needed in addition to the local infrastructure of the Internet. Most likely, this is accomplished by using the WSN-type networks (Wireless Senor Networks). Analog Devices has developed a WSN demo platform for this purpose.
WSN platform is also designed to integrate with IBM’s cloud-based Bluemix IoT platform. Based on open standards Bluemix is designed to provide application services
This shift toward modular solutions can be seen more and more clearly the right way to address the challenge
design made easy
If the modular approach makes planning simpler, even easier construction and configuration of the systems will be provided by the use of a standard interface commonly used. Embedded systems manufacturers offers a number of widely used interface standards that have been developed for each target market specific needs.
Since pmod assays focus on low frequencies and small amounts of IO pins, the interface standard is suitable for a complete solution for sensor nodes, the number of which is expected to grow tremendously IoT developments
Construction of IoT systems requires greater involvement in the planning work than ever before has been experienced in the electronics field. formed objects Web will literally change the whole world in which we live. Responding to the challenge requires far more engineering resources than is currently available, so the only logical solution is to adopt a modular approach to systems design.
Source: http://etn.fi/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4491:helppoa-laajennettavuutta-iot-jarjestelmiin&catid=26&Itemid=140
Tomi Engdahl says:
Smart AC Monitoring: Without the $500 Price Tag
http://hackaday.com/2016/05/25/smart-ac-monitoring-without-the-500-price-tag/
[Tisham Dhar] has been interested in monitoring AC power and previously built a breakout board for the ADE7763. He wanted to find something cheaper and more modern. The ATM90E26 fit the bill. It can communicate via a UART or SPI, and has multiple metering modes. The problem? The evaluation module from Atmel costs about $500
[Dhar] put the low voltage components from the reference design on a PCB and pocketed the difference in cost.
More Energy monitoring – ATM90E26 Breakout
http://whatnicklife.blogspot.fi/2016/05/more-energy-monitoring-atm90e26-breakout.html
Tomi Engdahl says:
Advice on integrating legacy technology with IIoT
http://www.controleng.com/single-article/advice-on-integrating-legacy-technology-with-iiot/f6d9c5444db4c301c79f5014a666f6a6.html
Think Again: Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) methods can help increase quality, throughput, and cybersecurity, while decreasing unplanned downtime, according to the opening panel discussion and keynote at the Industrial IoT USA conference in Chicago. This includes benefits for connecting to legacy equipment and predictive maintenance.
To take advantage of increased communications needed for Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) initiatives, legacy equipment has to deliver data to help eliminate unplanned downtime and improve quality and efficiencies, as explained by participants in the opening panel and keynote presentation for the Industrial Internet of Things USA conference in Chicago on April 14 and 15.
Legacy equipment connections can be challenging, however, because legacy equipment often wasn’t designed to communicate with other devices and systems; original communications protocols (if any) almost always require translation. Further, the isolation and proprietary nature of legacy systems were seen as a method of security, neither of which offers much protection for today’s manufacturing environment, conference speakers suggested.
Digital networks have been slow to enter process controls, in part because lifecycle operational benefits weren’t factored into return on investment (ROI) calculations along with initial savings from wiring, he suggested. Also data incompatibilities among devices from different suppliers have slowed adoption.
Increased use of standards by technology providers would improve data flow, said Atif Khan, senior automation manager, smart fields, Monsanto, noting how XML use has greatly benefited information flow in many industries. Integration of OPC Unified Architecture (OPC UA) requires some effort, Khan said, but helps data flow among disparate systems, speeding decisions on quality. He said an IIoT retrofit kit would be very helpful to get, process, and use data more quickly and help reduce costs.
Deciphering IIoT benefits
IT and OT cooperation is important to increase information flow, though difficulties can result through misunderstandings in vocabulary
“Sometimes we speak the same language, but cannot understand each other,” she said of IT and OT teams.
Frank offered a working definition of IIoT: New technology to connect the plant floor to the enterprise, to analyze, optimize, and increase performance of industrial equipment and improve end-to-end business processes.
The power of network communication to enhance innovation hasn’t been lost in manufacturing and process applications, Frank said; it’s just been more difficult to integrate and use because of disparate systems, she suggested.
How IIoT helps predictive maintenance
For predictive maintenance (PdM), IIoT technologies help address challenges with talent gaps, budget pressures, and a greater need to better manage assets, including energy, Frank explained. PdM strategies can include:
1. Predict failures when needed
2. Preempt stoppages and unplanned downtime
3. Optimize operating conditions
4. Extend equipment life.
IIoT technologies are for those who want to compete and stay relevant, explained Christine Frank, director of industrial strategic partnerships, SME (Industrial) Global, Dell, in a discussion with CFE Media during a break at the Industrial Internet of ThiFrank said companies don’t have to rip and replace old equipment to begin using PdM technologies.
Data can be collected through a gateway, combined with other data, and create information for asset alerts, Frank said. Security can be applied down to the chip level, and fingerprints may be used to create trust.
Frank offered three tips to PdM beginners.
1. Start small with what you have.
2. Architect for analytics—that is, design up front for prescriptive maintenance, which offers all the capabilities of predictive maintenance, adding the ability to prescribe what to do to best address the upcoming failure.
3. Think security first.
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Companies collaborate on test bed for sensor data
http://www.controleng.com/single-article/companies-collaborate-on-test-bed-for-sensor-data/1e7ebd1ad91d9e0d5316c6efa358bbdc.html
TE Connectivity, ifm, SAP and the OPC Foundation presented a test platform for transmitting and evaluating sensor data in IT systems at Hannover Messe.
TE Connectivity (TE), ifm, SAP and the OPC Foundation have collaborated together to develop a test bed that shows how all sensor data can be transmitted from machines to an information technology (IT) system and evaluated there. This allows the efficiency of a factory to be considerably enhanced through, for example, a reduction in energy consumption. The solution is designed to be easy to retrofit in a production facility and increase productivity and resource efficiency. The partners developed the test bed within the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC).
Smart processes require comprehensive information from the sensors. “The necessary data is frequently available via the sensors, but the controllers generally only process a fraction of what is available,”
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Smart manufacturing is not a thing; it’s a convergence of things
http://www.controleng.com/single-article/smart-manufacturing-is-not-a-thing-its-a-convergence-of-things/f660ba3595a6c2660b56c27dd0b4e7e5.html
Smart manufacturing is a convergence of capabilities from multiple areas to enhance productivity. Smart manufacturing is where smart business processes converge with smart operational processes, smart equipment, and smart product definitions.
Smart manufacturing is growing in popularity, although it can still be a confusing concept. To some people smart manufacturing is applying the technology of smartphones, smart houses, and smart cars to manufacturing equipment. For others, it is applying information technologies in supply chains and product development or the development of smart products. There are many definitions of smart manufacturing because it is not just a single thing, but a convergence of capabilities from multiple areas. This convergence has the potential to bring massive productivity enhancements as traditional manufacturing moves to smart manufacturing.
Manufacturing is at the center of many different business lifecycles. There are business lifecycles for the product development, process equipment (assets), order management, supply chain management, and security management. Each of these activity lifecycles has an element of production or operation.
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Hack Your Apartment: Keyless Entry with Little Effort
http://hackaday.com/2016/05/26/keyless-apartment-entry-with-relatively-little-effort/
If you’ve been to an apartment complex with a locked front door, you’ve seen the buzzer systems. You press the corresponding button for the apartment you want and can talk to the resident. They can press a button to unlock the door briefly, and then you go up to their apartment and they don’t have to come down to let you in. But what if you’re the resident and you want to go for a run without your keys jingling in your pocket? What if you want to open it using just your smartphone?
The most critical step was hacking into the buzzer system. Two screws and a razor blade later and the plate was separated from the wall.
Next was the wireless component. I had a Particle Photon lying around in my box of dev boards, which was super convenient. I got that set up with the Particle app from the Play store. Then I installed IFTTT, which would let me control it eventually.
I found a relay. Relays take a lot of power to switch, and this one switches at 5V, but the Photon GPIO is at 3.3V. I wouldn’t be able to drive the relay straight from the output pin. No problem, this is a job for an N-Channel MOSFET.
Back to work, in IFTTT, I connected it to the Particle channel. I created a recipe that would call the function I had written on my Photon whenever I texted myself the word “opensesame”. It’s really amazing how well the Particle channel interacts with my code on my Photon. I could flash the firmware and the IFTTT recipe creation would immediately know what functions were available.
Final Notes
I’m not concerned about security. The Photon is connected to my home router via encrypted WiFi, and the IFTTT and Particle integration uses OAuth.
There is some delay between when I press the button and when the Photon gets the message and buzzes the door. It turns out it would probably be faster for me to just use the key to open it.
Yes, this relies on the Internet being up, so it’s a little worrying that I had an outage while I was working on the project. I won’t rely on this all the time, but it’s a good gimmick.
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RF Mesh Network
https://hackaday.io/project/11639-rf-mesh-network
High-throughput zero topology configuration mesh network for temporary/emergency communications over long distances.
I’m using the NRF24L01+PA+LNA radio modules to create a mesh network of inexpensive, identical nodes. There is zero topology configuration, and the network should map itself. Maximum (rated) range between modules is 1km (with 250kbps) and 2mbps at 250m. The total cost of a solar-powered RF unit is currently (estimated) $16. The mesh should implement TCP/IP communication. Communication should be capable of encrypted protocols.
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A Third Of New Cellular Customers Last Quarter Were Cars
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/16/05/26/1824240/a-third-of-new-cellular-customers-last-quarter-were-cars
With the U.S. smartphone market saturated, most of the growth in the cellular industry is actually coming from other kinds of devices including tablets, machine-to-machine connections and lots and lots of cars. In the first quarter, for example, the major carriers actually added more connected cars (Editor’s note: amounting to a 32 percent capture) as new accounts than they did phones.
A third of new cellular customers last quarter were cars
Most smartphones go to existing customers, with the real growth coming from tablets and other devices.
http://www.recode.net/2016/5/26/11785930/connected-cars-cellular-growth
With the U.S. smartphone market saturated, most of the growth in the cellular industry is actually coming from other kinds of devices including tablets, machine-to-machine connections and lots and lots of cars.
In the first quarter, for example, the major carriers actually added more connected cars as new accounts than they did phones.
That doesn’t mean there weren’t a lot of phones sold, though, but most smartphones went to existing customers. When it comes to new accounts added, so-called “net adds,” things were fairly split among cars, tablets, phones and industrial connections, according to a new report from industry consultant Chetan Sharma.
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Dev kit targets industrial IoT
http://www.edn.com/electronics-blogs/eye-on-iot-/4442070/Dev-kit-targets-industrial-IoT?_mc=NL_EDN_EDT_EDN_today_20160526&cid=NL_EDN_EDT_EDN_today_20160526&elqTrackId=d9efdd0c0cd74fcab4dc6761d4935a63&elq=790e6be89d5b4ed895bb1d09d76417ba&elqaid=32406&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=28313
Developers working on the Internet of Things (IoT) are seeing an increasing number of platforms come available that provide both prototyping hardware and connected services in a package deal. But most of those seem to target hobbyist or consumer applications, and far fewer provide a simple path to production.
Avnet is seeking to change the situation with its latest introduction – the MicroZed Industrial IoT starter kit.
The kit leverages Avnet’s existing MicroZed development module, which is based on the Xilinx Zynq-7000 SoC. The SoC combines dual ARM Cortex-A9 processor cores with numerous programmable logic cells to provide both hardware and software programmability. The substantial resources available on the SoC make it suitable for high-end applications.
On the software side, Avent has partnered with Wind River to embed the Pulsar Linux operating system on the board. It has also worked with IBM to make the kit Watson IoT ready and provide access to IBM Watson Services with a free trial to Bluemix cloud services.
In short, the kit includes everything someone designing an Industrial IoT application would need to develop and prototype their product. The kit price is $300, a bit high for casual interest but low for serious developers.
http://zedboard.org/product/microzed
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Wireless sensor network keeps IC wafer fab running efficiently
http://www.edn.com/design/sensors/4442102/Wireless-sensor-network-keeps-IC-wafer-fab-running-efficiently?_mc=NL_EDN_EDT_EDN_weekly_20160526&cid=NL_EDN_EDT_EDN_weekly_20160526&elqTrackId=a17b568a5a47479f95b40d17ec5d893c&elq=b1c8377151804cc388e08147403177e7&elqaid=32408&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=28315
The application of the Internet of Things (IoT) in manufacturing has been much discussed, given its potential to optimize current systems, while enabling data analysis that can lead to the development of even better processes. Here we present an instance where industrial-strength wireless mesh networking was combined with ultra-low-power sensors to retrofit a semiconductor wafer plant while in operation.
At Linear Technology Corporation’s Silicon Valley fab near San Jose, California, over 175 specialty gas cylinders are used in the wafer manufacturing process. These gas cylinders are closely monitored to ensure uninterrupted supply. Any unplanned interruption of gas supply would result in hundreds of thousands of dollars of wafer scrappage and revenue loss, while also creating unacceptable delay in product shipments to customers. To avoid downtime, technicians manually log the pressure of each gas cylinder in the fab three times a day. This manual process is prone to human error and is expensive to maintain.
Previously, this manual datalogging was used because communications wiring is deemed expensive and impractical in the fab. Cylinders are located throughout the facility, and for most of the cylinders, there are no AC power outlets or Ethernet jacks nearby.
To solve the wiring problem without disrupting the fabrication process, a 32-node SmartMesh IP™ wireless mesh network is initially deployed to monitor the pressure of each gas tank in the closet
Each node is powered by a pair of lithium AA L91 batteries, which give approximately eight years of life under normal operation. As a result, there is no additional wiring and no unnecessary downtime required to install the network, and only infrequent periodic maintenance is required to change out the batteries.
Despite the concrete construction and prevalence of metal structures in the fab, the network has proven to be highly reliable.
By using real-time gas consumption rates, technicians can precisely predict when gas cylinders will need to be replaced, reducing waste from unused gas due to premature cylinder changes.
SmartMesh IP wireless mesh networks enabled non-disruptive installation to retrofit a running fab and monitor its gas cylinder usage. The wireless nodes fit within existing space confines and continue to work reliably in the metal and concrete structure, while relaying real-time readings to plant management software.
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Gululu Smart Water Bottle Keeps Kids Hydrated
http://www.eetimes.com/author.asp?section_id=216&doc_id=1329756&
Meet the Gululu, the spiritual descendent of the Tamagotchi, but one that is more suited to (virtual) life in the 21st Century.
You may think this is a bit silly, but kids love these things. By 2010, over 76 million Tamagotchis had been sold world-wide, and the little scamps keep on coming back
All of which leads us to the Gululu — a smart water bottle that we might think of as being a spiritual descendent of the Tamagotchi, but one that is more suited to (virtual) life in the 21st Century. Quite apart from anything else, these water bottles come in a selection of cute colors and boast mega-cool interactive graphics.
Gululus have touch sensors on the sides and they respond to being stroked.
Gululu can sense when it’s been filled with water and also when its owner subsequently takes a drink of that water, at which time the creature will perform a back-flip and give its owner a “thumbs up.”
Even better for the parents is that, once the Gululu is connected to WiFi, it uploads its data to the cloud, thereby letting the parents monitor their kids’ water-quaffing progress on their smartphones or tablets using the free Galulu apps available from the Apple and Android stores.
Gululu Kickstarter that just launched
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gululu/gululu-the-interactive-bottle-that-keeps-kids-hydr
The Gululu Interactive Bottle gives life to virtual pets to help kids drink water, and informs parents through a cloud-based app.
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ServersCheck’s Thermal Imaging Camera Sensor
http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/serverschecks-thermal-imaging-camera-sensor?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+linuxjournalcom+%28Linux+Journal+-+The+Original+Magazine+of+the+Linux+Community%29
Monitoring data centers with sensors over conventional temperature probes has huge advantages, says facilities monitoring specialist ServersCheck. The company’s new technology is what it bills as “the world’s first thermal imaging camera sensor that works with SNMP and Modbus”. While a traditional temperature sensor reports the nearby temperature, ServersCheck’s patent-pending thermal imaging sensor performs a thermal scan of what it sees within its 50° field-of-view camera. Every two seconds, it checks the temperature at 4,800 points, and this thermal image array is then converted into SNMP and Modbus data for easy integration with monitoring platforms. The network monitoring or building management platform receives transmission from the wired or cellular base unit—that is, the SensorGateway, which connects to the sensors via RJ45.
https://serverscheck.com/
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Adventures of ArduinoMan – The Rudis
http://hackaday.com/2016/05/27/adventures-of-arduinoman-the-rudis/
One thing is certain – anything that runs on electricity can be connected to the internet. The only obstacle is cost. And as costs come down, the reality of The Internet of Things will be upon us. Everything from cars to curling irons will be connected to the Internet. With this newly connected world will come a new breed of hacker. The Black Hats will move out from behind their keyboards and spill into the streets, only to be met by the White Hats as they battle for control over our endlessly connected world.
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Federico Musto of Arduino SRL Shows Off New ARM-based Arduino Boards
http://hackaday.com/2016/05/27/federico-musto-of-arduino-srl-shows-new-arm-based-arduino-boards/
The new boards are called Arduino Primo, Arduino Core, Arduino Alicepad, and Arduino Otto.
The first up is the Primo, a board built to adhere to the UNO form factor. This one is packing an interesting punch. The main micro is not an Atmel chip, but a Nordic nRF52832 ARM Cortex-M4F chip. Besides being a significantly fast CPU with floating-point support, the Nordic IC also has built-in Bluetooth LE and NFC capabilities, and the board has a PCB antenna built in.
On an UNO this is where the silicon would end. But on the Primo you get two more controllers: an ESP8266 and an STM32F103. The former is obvious, it brings WiFi to the party (including over-the-air programming). The STM32 chip is there to provide peripheral control and debugging. Debugging is an interesting development and is hard to come by in the Arduino-sphere. This will use the OpenOCD standard, with platformio.org as the recommended GUI.
The same nRF52 microcontroller is present on the Arduino Core and the Alicepad, which are targeted at wearable electronics. The circular form factor of the Alicepad mimics the familiar sewable form of the Lilypad
Arduino’s other offerings are where the horsepower really gets crazy. The Otto board boasts a gigantic STM32F469: a 169-pin ARM Cortex-M4F clocked at 180 MHz.
PlatformIO is an open source ecosystem for IoT development
Cross-platform build system. Continuous and IDE integration. Arduino and ARM mbed compatible
http://platformio.org/
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Minimal MQTT: Control and Clients
http://hackaday.com/2016/05/27/minimal-mqtt-control-and-clients/
So you’ve built a central server and filled your house with WiFi-connected nodes all speaking to each other using the MQTT protocol. In short, you’ve got the machine-to-machine side of things entirely squared away. Now it’s time to bring the humans into the loop! We’re going to explore a couple graphical user interfaces.
You could build a physical knob and/or LED display for every little aspect of your entire system, but honestly, this is where GUIs really shine. In this installment of Minimal MQTT, we’re going to look at human-friendly ways of consuming and producing data to interact with your connected sensors, switches, and displays. There are a ton of frameworks out there that use MQTT to build something like this, but we’re going to cut out the middle-man and go straight for some GUI MQTT clients.
The easiest way to tap into this data is through your cellphone. At least for the Android platform, there are a handful of free apps that will let you directly publish and subscribe to an MQTT broker (or brokers)
I installed and uninstalled around ten MQTT apps for Android. Of them, the most satisfying by far is MQTT Dashboard, which lets you define custom actions for a few GUI elements, including text, button, switch, color-pickers, and more. The ability to configure a button or a slider to send configurable numeric or text data is fantastic. Almost all the other MQTT client apps let you type an entry in, but having to repeatedly type “off” on a cell phone’s keyboard is nobody’s idea of convenient.
IoT MQTT Dashboard
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.thn.iotmqttdashboard
If you are looking for an application to manage your (DIY) IoT projects using MQTT protocol, then stop searching, here it is
With this app, you can easily control any MQTT client devices with very simple configuration steps. Within a minute, you can talk with your best friend Arduino, or you can command your slave ESP8266 to do something…
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TSL2561, BMP180, DS18B20 on a Zero
https://www.hackster.io/ian-zahn/tsl2561-bmp180-ds18b20-on-a-zero-d46366?ref=list&ref_id=2672&offset=14
Using Cayenne and a Pi Zero to monitor fish tank ambient lighting / temperature and room pressure / temperature.
Already had Cayenne on the Zero so I just wired everything up and let ‘er rip. The 18B20 auto detected appropriately and the TSL2561 and BMP180 installed in a couple of clicks. Cayenne really makes getting things up and running very easy.
For those out there that wish to reproduce this dashboard and have the TSL2561, BMP180, and DS18B20, the Cayenne team provides tutorials for their compatible sensors.
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Logging temperature data using the Spark Core
https://www.hackster.io/AgustinP/logging-temperature-data-using-the-spark-core-b9c60c?ref=list&ref_id=2672&offset=2
Log your aquarium’s temperature and get an SMS when it’s outside a given range
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AWS IoT and Beehives
https://www.hackster.io/bees/aws-iot-and-beehives-c59fff?ref=list&ref_id=2672&offset=0
Beekeeping and hive management provide an important use case for IoT in agriculture.
The Internet of Things (IoT) is enabling the observation, analysis, and transmission of information in new and exciting ways. Low-cost connected devices that interact with cloud applications extend our reach into what is observable, learned, and actionable in the world.
Nowhere is this more evident than in agriculture, where IoT and data-driven approaches are making farming more efficient and sustainable. Beekeeping and hive management provide an important use case for IoT in agriculture.
AWS IoT is a managed cloud platform that allows you to easily build systems in which billions of devices exchange trillions of messages. AWS IoT can reliably and securely process and route these messages to AWS endpoints and other devices. This whitepaper will demonstrate how to use AWS IoT and low-cost, internet-connected sensors to monitor the hives in a honey bee apiary. More broadly, this paper shows how any IoT system can deliver similar insights with different inputs.
The steps that follow show how AWS IoT can be used to establish secure hive telemetry communications between IoT devices in honey bee colonies and the AWS IoT message broker. The analytical data we receive from these messages can alert us when measurements fall outside of normal, healthy ranges.
Secure Messaging with AWS IoT
The AWS IoT message broker supports MQTT, a lightweight connectivity protocol that uses TCP as a transport protocol.
Secure-MQTT uses X.509 certificates as keys in the same way as other mutually authenticated TLS applications. In this use case, the client (a honey beehive) must be able to authenticate the server (AWS IoT), and the server must be able to authenticate the client.
To establish a Secure-MQTT connection to AWS IoT, the client must have:
A root CA certificate (stored in a file named ca.pem). The AWS IoT service root CA is provided by Symantec. You can download it from here.
The client’s private key (stored in a file named private-key.pem).
A client certificate generated by AWS IoT (stored in a file named certificate.pem).
The root CA is used by the client device to verify the identity of the AWS IoT service. The private key and client certificate represent the identity of the client device and are used to authenticate to AWS IoT.
Raspberry Pi Operating System Configuration
This IoT beehive implementation uses Raspberry Pi A+ client devices running the Raspbian Jessie operating system.
First, install the Mosquitto MQTT client software. This is the client software that will be used to communicate with AWS IoT.
You need Mosquitto version 1.4 or later.
Because this IoT implementation will be using an application written in Python, install the Paho Python client from Eclipse
Typically, an inexpensive USB Wi-Fi dongle is added to provide wireless internet connectivity. The A+ is more than adequate for this AWS IoT beehive application. It also includes a 40-pin extended GPIO for wiring sensors.
You will use two DS18B20 thermometers with long cables to collect temperature readings.
You will use a small wiring breadboard to connect the thermometer sensors to the Raspberry Pi. A Tupperware container can serve as an inexpensive case.
Two kernel modules must be loaded in order to access the temperatures reported by the w1-gpio and w1-therm sensors.
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India to invest in the next few years more than € 20 billion in the construction of 33 him, smarter cities.
India aims to modify at least a hundred major cities in the coming years with comfort, in line with sustainable development in him, smarter cities.
Foreign trade activating According to Finpro, the Finnish ICT and digital know-how could be in demand, especially in the development of energy, transport, construction and telecommunications sectors.
” For example, the energy industry is currently investing in India, especially solar energy and smart grids. The aim is to increase the production of renewable energy power of 175 GW by 2022, ”
Source: http://www.uusiteknologia.fi/2016/05/30/intiaan-alykaupunkeja-suomi/
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One chip to rule them all? The Internet of Things and the next great era of hardware
http://techcrunch.com/2016/05/28/one-chip-to-rule-them-all-the-internet-of-things-and-the-next-great-era-of-hardware/
It’s been almost 10 years since Apple unveiled the iPhone. Since that day, the smartphone has been the overwhelming driver of innovation in the technology industry. Cameras, Wi-Fi, batteries, touch sensors, baseband processors and memory chips — in less than a decade, these components have made stunning advances to keep up with consumer demand to have sleeker, more powerful devices every year.
For chip makers, the pressure has been to produce smaller, more powerful components for each generation of phones. Denser, faster, cheaper — these mantras have driven our industry for as long as most people can remember.
But there’s a new game in town. The smartphone era is not over, but the growth rate is slowing. The key growth driver in hardware could soon be the Internet of Things. Over the next decade, this industry will churn out tens of billions of connected sensor devices. These will be used in every corner of the world — from highways to arteries — to gather new insights to help us live and work better.
This chapter will reshape the technology hardware industry in profound ways
Denser, faster, cheaper — these mantras have driven our industry for as long as most people can remember.
Engineers soon began to experiment with putting multiple functions on a single piece of silicon. Before long, they could get a whole computer onto that one piece of silicon, wrap it up nicely and market it as a single, all-inclusive package.
We call this “System on a Chip” (SoC). You probably have one in your smartphone.
SoCs are frequently cheaper too; instead of testing many components independently, you could run one set of tests on a single chip. And, of course, size matters.
But there’s a big drawback. SoCs are manufactured on common process platforms in large manufacturing facilities called “fabs.”
The challenge in the SoC paradigm is that all the components in a single chip (processor, radio, memory, etc.) are locked into a single manufacturing process, which does not always provide the “best in class” for each component.
For example, one process platform may be excellent for processors, but just mediocre for embedded flash memory.
New rules in the era of “things”
Even more confusing, at this point we simply don’t know the exact requirements for most IoT applications. It’s just too early in the process. But we have to start building hardware for it anyway! This presents all kinds of challenges to existing models of chip production.
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This Internet of Things is not working – an important link is often forgotten
IoT visions are huge: Millions of devices are connected to the network and are able to communicate themselves in need of maintenance. This is how it should go. What about customer service? What is the role of the right is the IoT era?
“Things on the Internet is often referred to only from the perspective of industrial environments. I think the customer service is an integral part of the IoT phenomenon – or at least it should be. When the mining machine or a home refrigerator to announce that one of its part is about to fail, begin to share customer service immediately. The designated person in charge must take over the thing, ”
“The customer can be even sold the service, which guarantees that in his fridge, which always works. In practice, it could work even in such a way that when the temperature of the refrigerator suddenly starts to rise, the sensors react to it and send a notification to come. Customer service worker act on the notification, call the owner of the refrigerator and is ideal when the repairman can come to the scene, “Jalonen says.
Kone lifts the alarms in 32 different countries pass through Vintor built by the communications system. The system collects the notifications shocks and bringing them to the attention of the customer service, which assesses the necessary follow-up action.
Securitas alarm center dealing with on a daily basis as well as loads of alerts and notifications made by humans.
“The oldest use of the devices are manufactured in the 1972 use 300-bit modems. ”
Source: http://www.tivi.fi/Kaikki_uutiset/nain-esineiden-internet-ei-toimi-tarkea-lenkki-unohtuu-usein-6554973
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OpenThread, A Solution To The WiFi Of Things
http://hackaday.com/2016/05/30/openthread-a-solution-to-the-wifi-of-things/
The term ‘Internet of Things’ was coined in 1999, long before every laptop had WiFi and every Starbucks provided Internet for the latte-sucking masses. Over time, the Internet of Things meant all these devices would connect over WiFi. Why, no one has any idea. WiFi is terrible for a network of Things – it requires too much power, the range isn’t great, it’s beyond overkill, and there’s already too many machines and routers on WiFi networks, anyway.
There have been a number of solutions to this problem of a WiFi of Things over the years, but none have caught on. Now, finally, there may be a solution. Nest, in cooperation with ARM, Atmel, dialog, Qualcomm, and TI have released OpenThread, an Open Source implementation of the Thread networking protocol.
The physical layer for OpenThread is 802.15.4, the same layer ZigBee is based on. Unlike ZigBee, the fourth, fifth, and sixth layers of OpenThread look much more like the rest of the Internet. OpenThread features IPv6 and 6LoWPAN, true mesh networking, and requires only a software update to existing 802.15.4 radio
OpenThread released by Nest is an open-source implementation of the Thread networking protocol
https://github.com/openthread/openthread
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Smart Lock
Keyless entry system compatible with european door locks
https://hackaday.io/project/11917-smart-lock
Main idea is to build a cheap and secure key-less entry system compatible with European door locks.
Europe door lock standard is different compared to the door lock standard of North America. Basically there is no door handle outside of the door. From the outside, the door can only be opened by using the key. Therefore, European doors have a single lock cylinder that is used to locks and open the door. Because of that, the mechanism I’ve built has to be rotating more than 1000 degrees which is about 2.5 turns. And also cylinder needs enough torque because of the internal mechanics and springs of the lock itself.
Concept uses a remote device to trigger the lock cylinder to be turned 360 degrees to both lock, unlock or open the door by using an geared motor which is attached to the inner face of the door.
In order not to modify the lock cylinder, I decided to use a cylinder with a handle on it. So I can still use my key from the outer face of the door.
Basically continuous rotation servo is the best available option since it is affordable, small and it does not need any external drivers for controlling its speed or direction. And also there are servos which can produce torque from 1 kg to 25 kg.
When I’m looking for a cheap way to position servo accurately, I’ve realized that I don’t need to know the position of the servo. I only need to know when lock cylinder is triggering the mechanism of the lock.
A hall effect current sensor uses electromagnetism to calculate the current.
I choose ESP8266 module on NodeMCU Devkit because it handles all connectivity features that I need for this project on an single chip. It is small, cheap, it has internal ADC on it and there are ton of libraries available on the net.
My device should look like an accessory of the door, therefore enclosure is a very part of this project.
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Ina Fried / Recode:
Report: in Q1 2016, 69% of new cellular accounts in the US came from cars, tablets, and IoT; cars accounted for 32% of new accounts versus 31% for phones
A third of new cellular customers last quarter were cars
Most smartphones go to existing customers, with the real growth coming from tablets and other devices.
http://www.recode.net/2016/5/26/11785930/connected-cars-cellular-growth
With the U.S. smartphone market saturated, most of the growth in the cellular industry is actually coming from other kinds of devices including tablets, machine-to-machine connections and lots and lots of cars.
In the first quarter, for example, the major carriers actually added more connected cars as new accounts than they did phones.
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David Meyer / Fortune:
Asus unveils Zenbo, a $599 home robot with voice command recognition, touchscreen, smart-home integrations, more; dev program in works; launch date undisclosed — Asus asuuy may be best known as the maker of laptops and phones, but on Monday it unveiled a fairly low-cost robot that can help …
Meet Zenbo, Asus’s $599 Home Robot
http://fortune.com/2016/05/30/asus-zenbo-robot/
A helper for health care and the smart home.
Asus ASUUY -8.33% may be best known as the maker of laptops and phones, but on Monday it unveiled a fairly low-cost robot that can help with heathcare and controlling the smart home. (Also, it unveiled new laptops and phones.)
The Zenbo robot, which will cost $599, will be able to understand spoken commands and roll around on its own. It’s supposed to help remind people of things like their doctor’s appointments and medication and exercise schedules, while also keeping a virtual eye out for emergencies.
Zenbo can also connect to smart-home components such as lights, door locks and security cameras, read out recipes, and entertain kids with interactive stories and songs.
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Qualcomm launches new Snapdragon Wear chips for targeted wearable devices
http://venturebeat.com/2016/05/30/qualcomm-launches-new-snapdragon-wear-chips-for-targeted-wearable-devices/
Qualcomm is launching a new set of Snapdragon Wear chips for targeted wearable devices.
The company made the announcement at the Computex trade show in Taiwan today. The new Snapdragon Wear 1100 chips are an expansion of the company’s previously announced wearable chips that have many different functions. The new chips will be part of devices that are targeted at certain audiences, such as kids’ watches or watches for the elderly, fitness trackers, smart headsets, and wearable accessories.
“Snapdragon Wear 1100 is targeting purpose-built wearables, or those that are designed only around a few usage cases,” said Pankaj Kedia, senior director and business lead of smart wearables at Qualcomm, in an interview with VentureBeat. “These kinds of products do two to five things really well. They run a more targeted software environment, like Linux. The whole user experience is much more targeted around these use cases. They still require low power, high integration, small size, and a good connected experience.”
The chips are part of the San Diego, Calif.-based chip maker’ broad initiative to go beyond pure mobile chips. Qualcomm is focused on the larger market of chips for the Internet of Things (or making everyday objects smart and connected). That includes “smart bodies,” “smart homes,” and “smart cities,” Kedia said. The Snapdragon Wear 1100 is optimized for size, power, sensors, connectivity, and location.
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Dev kit targets industrial IoT
http://www.edn.com/electronics-blogs/eye-on-iot-/4442070/Dev-kit-targets-industrial-IoT?_mc=NL_EDN_EDT_EDN_productsandtools_20160530&cid=NL_EDN_EDT_EDN_productsandtools_20160530&elqTrackId=5aac5368abc6494cbd8f0028037a48a0&elq=dc461471b4cb4115aec74eebcbab1e07&elqaid=32432&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=28338
The kit leverages Avnet’s existing MicroZed development module, which is based on the Xilinx Zynq-7000 SoC. The SoC combines dual ARM Cortex-A9 processor cores with numerous programmable logic cells to provide both hardware and software programmability. The substantial resources available on the SoC make it suitable for high-end applications.
On the software side, Avent has partnered with Wind River to embed the Pulsar Linux operating system on the board. It has also worked with IBM to make the kit Watson IoT ready and provide access to IBM Watson Services with a free trial to Bluemix cloud services.
In short, the kit includes everything someone designing an Industrial IoT application would need to develop and prototype their product. The kit price is $300,
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Prototype to production – High-level project requirements
http://www.edn.com/electronics-blogs/embedded-basics/4442034/Prototype-to-production—High-level-project-requirements?_mc=NL_EDN_EDT_EDN_today_20160530&cid=NL_EDN_EDT_EDN_today_20160530&elqTrackId=fe2cdbff115949148fb894cb7c4a01a9&elq=165449aa0b4948fdae4d6e4d2cf6dfa1&elqaid=32434&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=28340
For the reasons just stated, here are five high level “requirements” for the IoT industrial controller that will be prototyped in upcoming articles.
Requirement #1 – Simple to program without specialized tools
A generic IoT controller that can be used in any number of possible applications needs to be easy to program and update without the use of specialized tools or knowledge. This already presents a challenge.
Opening up a device to access a JTAG port, for instance, is time consuming and potentially dangerous depending on the application. Programming a device through a bootloader could be a possibility,
One possible solution would be to design the system such that the program files can be easily dropped onto the controller like it was a thumb drive. Some development kits that use OpenSDA
An interesting alternative would be to have the controller run Python
Requirement #2 – Contain typical industrial communication interfaces
There are many different types of interfaces that can be found on an industrial controller. General input and output with isolated and non-isolated signals is fairly common. The ability to control at least a single H-Bridge for motor control is useful as well. The more interesting communication interfaces in use are CAN, Ethernet, and Modbus. Occasionally some controllers will even bring out SPI and I2C. Many or most of these should probably be included in this project.
Requirement #3 – Support popular connectivity interfaces
The real point of an IoT industrial controller is to gather data and control hardware remotely. That is what makes the whole connected device idea so intriguing. There are a couple of very obvious communication interfaces for the connectivity, such as WiFi and Ethernet. An alternative might be cellular
Bluetooth Low Energy would be an interesting interface for local control. The use of Zigbee could be used
Requirement #4 – Use HTTP and or JSON to communicate with the cloud
A quick Google search reveals that there are many possible protocols to use with an IoT device. Lots of them are competing, and only God knows which will survive in the long run.
Http and JSON are two options that could be considered to connect a device to the Internet and stream control and acquisition messages.
Requirement #5 – Be hardware expandable
A general controller is never going to be able to fit every possible imaginable need. The ability to add on hardware through Modbus or remotely via a mesh network would be intriguing.
Conclusion
The actual list of requirements that would be associated with an IoT industrial controller would be quite large and impossible to discuss in much detail in a blog.
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Intel’s new plan: A circle that starts in your hand and ends in the cloud
Atom-powered home kit so ISPs can pipe VMs into your house
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/05/31/intels_new_plan_a_circle_that_starts_in_your_hand_and_ends_in_the_cloud/
As predicted by The Register, Intel has created an x86-powered reference platform for home gateways that makes the box you use for broadband services an Atom-powered target for virtual machines delivered by carriers.
Announced today at Computex in Taipei, the new AnyWAN GRX750 is a system-on-a-chip that can serve as the basis for modern/routers that is ready to build into devices capable of connecting over DSL, fiber optics, G.fast or 4g/5G wireless. Chipzilla has also created a new Wi-Fi chipset, the XWAY WAV500, that it expects will often reside in the AnyWAN. The company’s said the combination can serve 100 Wi-Fi-connected devices at up to 1Gbps.
The multi-connection cocktail alone will put the cat among the pigeons in the home gateway market, a field in which many players specialise in one carriage standard or another.
“Being able to deploy on-premises applications is a far more efficient way than upgrading devices,” she told The Register. She also used the opportunity to call on carriers to embark on a “cloudification” of their infrastructure to reduce dependency on proprietary kit and instead just use servers for everything
Making home gateways a target for NFV also plays into Intel’s new strategy, outlined today by Bryant and Client Computing Group corporate veep and general manager Navin Shenoy. The pair explained that Intel’s post-PC plan starts with helping device-makers to cook up cool kit – be it PCs, telematics modules for cars or drones packing an Edison board and Intel’s RealSense depth-viewing camera.
That hardware should, whenever possible, feed data to, rely on or integrate with cloud services running Xeons inside servers… lots of servers. In Intel’s ideal world, that Xeon-powered back-endery is so much fun to consume that we all buy more devices, which means more servers, and before you can worry about the decline of the PC market, Chipzilla will have sold more stuff into cars and Internet of Things things than it ever dreamed of selling into PCs or smartphones.
High-resolution or virtual video can run on any device, but Intel is betting that more grunt makes a difference and will mean people use PCs for 4K and virtual viewing.
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Think you’re missing the IoT wave? Don’t panic.
http://www.edn.com/electronics-blogs/eye-on-iot-/4442115/Think-you-re-missing-the-IoT-wave–Don-t-panic-
I just read Rick Merritt’s EE Times piece IoT’s Assumptions Trouble Me, posted May 5th at 6:50PM.
What followed the article was an interesting array of commentary
Let’s just cut to the chase. First, there are admittedly useful and valid applications where connectivity with other like or dissimilar products will be beneficial to improving design, manufacturing, or in one way or another, our quality of life. I believe the real issue falls on the shoulders of those of us who were born and bred in the chip industry. Read the headlines. Our financial world is shrinking… again. Pundits are forecasting a decline in global semiconductor revenues… again. But this time it seems (to me) to be more serious than before.
The problem (again, in my opinion) is that we have run out of killer ideas. Investment money has abandoned
Innovation drives killer apps – that drive product growth – that drive the chip industry’s growth. Historically, much of this came from chip startups. But the semiconductor startup is beyond being an endangered species. It’s all but dead. Let’s face it; starting a new semiconductor company today has the ear markings of failure written all over it. Look what happened to Touchstone Semiconductors, an analog startup in 2010 that closed in 2014. Steve
Starting your own company can be a daunting task, emotionally and financially. The odds are clearly stacked against you with something less than 5% of startups ever getting it together.
Circle back to IoT. What’s the frenzy all about? Aside from those applications that really have a valid need for connected devices, the balance (again, in my opinion) is driven by panic. When there is no killer app, (think back to the early days of PCs and mobile phones and the World Wide Web) beware of overzealous marketers, hawking their versions of snake oil remedies to spur growth. Much of the IoT hype is spaghetti thrown against the wall… I wonder how much will stick?
Clearly, IOT’s Assumptions should trouble everyone.
IoT’s Assumptions Trouble Me
http://www.eetimes.com/author.asp?section_id=36&doc_id=1329624
Our Silicon Valley bureau chief admits he doesn’t want an Apple Watch or Fitbit and has the audacity to suggest that’s not his problem, but the industry’s.
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IoT making inroads in industry
http://www.edn.com/electronics-blogs/eye-on-iot-/4442105/IoT-making-inroads-in-industry?_mc=NL_EDN_EDT_EDN_today_20160531&cid=NL_EDN_EDT_EDN_today_20160531&elqTrackId=ca106b15048b490e9a2aab6fbbdf6383&elq=a1838c1dde3f4070b27001cf054969b6&elqaid=32437&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=28343
While the Internet of Things (IoT) for consumers is gaining the lion’s share of the publicity (and hype), the technology is quietly finding its way into industrial applications. Industrial adopters tend to stay quiet about their plans and progress, though, in order to avoid tipping their hand to their competitors. But stories are now coming to light about the IoT in industry, and the business case for adoption of connectivity is starting to sound compelling.
Heavy industries such as manufacturing and mining tend to be conservative in their outlook and slow to adopt new technologies. But the promises of increased efficiency and cost savings that form the siren’s call for industrial IoT can be compelling, leading the bold to try things out
Fujitsu applied its sensor technology and distributed service platform along with Intel’s IoT Gateway with the aim of showing how the IoT can provide measurable value in an industrial setting.
The system that Intel and Fujitsu implemented addressed both problems in a two-part approach. In the first part, video cameras watched device screens during final testing, while the gateway aggregated the video streams and sent them to the cloud for processing using text recognition technology to detect and recognize any error codes displayed on screen. When the system detected patterns in the reported errors, that analysis and the relevant video moved to a human operator for study. This operator then worked to determine the root cause of the problem by analyzing the circumstances that lead to the fault.
For the second part, the factory attached beacons to any devices sent to the rework department, enabling the real-time tracking of device movement by every worker in the department. The system annotated the location of each device with information on its shipping deadline, allowing workers to independently prioritize their work and to help out in processes that were causing delays.
The ability to prioritize rework in real-time resulted in a 30% reduction shipping costs by minimizing missed deadlines.
This kind of trial helps take the hype out of the IoT and grounds the benefits in hard numbers.
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Adesto Addresses Need for Smarter IoT Memory
http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1329778&
The Internet of Things (IoT) requires such low-power memory, it makes the typical smartphone look like a power hog. Part of conserving power is making the memory more intelligent.
Nine-year old nonvolatile memory company Adesto (Sunnyvale, Calif.) is addressing IoT’s power challenges with its energy harvesting Moneta product line, newly expanded with Moneta RM3300. RM3300 further reduces the power required during read and write operations while providing systems designers with standard voltage supply options
“Everyone is trying to reduce the power consumption dramatically,” said Intrater. While SoC makers are making pretty good improvements in their designs, Moneta’s goal is to reduce overall system energy use and allow designers to use smaller batteries to power their systems or even enable IoT nodes for battery-free operation, using energy harvested from the environment for operation, he said. This accomplished by operating faster and smarter.
Relatively speaking, Intrater said, the smartphone is a power hog, and IoT devices cannot afford to have the same batteries or the same power cycles.
“You can’t afford not to have intelligence in the memory.”
Speed of operations is an energy saving component if a device can start up, get things done and shut down quickly
“The market they are focusing on is low power. Power is application specific,” he said. “It’s a little bit design specific.”
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Amir Efrati / The Information:
Source: Google Home’s ARM-based microprocessor and Wi-Fi chip to be the same as those in the Chromecast
Google Home’s Little Secret
https://www.theinformation.com/google-homes-little-secret
When Google executive Mario Queiroz unveiled a new voice-controlled virtual assistant, Google Home, at the company’s developer conference this month, he left out a key detail: Home is a dressed-up version of Chromecast
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Atari will enter IoT market with new connected devices in partnership with Sigfox
http://venturebeat.com/2016/05/31/atari-will-enter-iot-market-with-new-connected-devices-in-partnership-with-sigfox/
Atari announced today that it is plunging into the Internet of Things with a line of connected objects that will debut later this year.
Just what those gadgets might be, however, remains shrouded in mystery.
The legendary video game maker will develop the devices in partnership with Sigfox, a startup based in the south of France that is building a global communications network for IoT devices.
“By partnering together and using Sigfox’s dedicated IoT connectivity, we are going to create amazing products with our brand,”
In any case, Sigfox’s network currently operates in 18 countries and runs with 7 million devices. The company is considered one of France’s hottest startups at the moment.
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Savagely malled: Why ‘smart’ cities aren’t so smart
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23030681-400-savagely-malled-why-smart-cities-arent-so-smart/
We don’t need complicated technologies to make our cities tick, argue two new books – we need citizens
NO MATTER what ambitious mayors and tech companies may tell you, cities have always been “smart” cities: evolving habitations with a huge appetite for powerful ideas.
From their earliest days, cities have not only concentrated power, whether religious, imperial or productive, but have self-consciously dramatised it too – in their towering buildings and straight streets, their marketplaces and monuments, their intellectual and political cultures. The bustle and grandeur of cities like Mecca, London, Paris and Jerusalem (or Beijing, Athens, Amsterdam and Rome) has persisted for over a millennium.
If we want to identify the smartness of city life, both Kotkin’s polemic and Wakeman’s history suggest that we can best locate it in the imaginative, aspirational and engaged lives of citizens themselves. Corporate visions for self-driving transport systems? Cities that shape their services and infrastructures around data received through sensors and algorithms? These are new town dreams that have already been dreamed, their realisations attempted. And their outcomes? Decidedly mixed.
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Japanese technology company Fujitsu Limited, tests and develops new greenhouse cultivation of cloud technology in Finland. There is LED lighting and automatic controls. “The project is an interesting opportunity for us to take advantage of the latest technology,”
Fujitsu will test the cooperation project fully automated sprout salad multi layer growing system that utilizes Fujitsu’s Akisai-cloud service, as well as Finnish know-how and technology, greenhouse automation, and LED lighting.
” Finland was selected as the project target country, because the company has a strong technical know-how to find solutions when it comes to the north to arid growing conditions and expensive energy costs”
Source: http://www.uusiteknologia.fi/2016/06/01/ledit-pilvi-auttavat-kasvamaan/
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Finnish IoT startups awarded
Finnish 720 ° field of indoor air monitoring to measure and analyze real-time air quality, such as temperature, carbon dioxide levels, humidity, fine particles and VOC emissions.
Company sensors can measure the temperature, the relative humidity in the total amount of volatile organic compounds (TVOC) and carbon dioxide, as well as 1μm-, 2,5μm- and 10μm-sized fine particles.
“By offering indoor air continuous measurement data, any exceptions or problems can be addressed immediately, without the need for expensive one-off measurements,”
The company’s system can be 720bestIoT to monitor the level of noise
Source: http://www.uusiteknologia.fi/2016/06/01/suomalainen-iot-startup-palkittiin/
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The Internet of Things (IoT) is changing the way of life as we know it, and the revolution is happening right above your head. Low-voltage building system devices and LED lighting with advanced, embedded sensors are now converging on a single IP network and being powered by advanced power over Ethernet (PoE) technologies. Now, these trends are reshaping buildings and workspaces as the Cisco Digital Ceiling becomes the next frontier in the IoT that allows connected systems to collect and analyze data, enabling new levels of building intelligence.
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MySensors
https://www.mysensors.org/
Learn how to create your own low cost wireless sensors and connect them to the world.
Store your sensor data at home or in the cloud. Control your environment. We provide build instructions and other great tools to help you manage and analyze your sensor data!
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In a few years the network has more connected objects than mobile phones
According to Ericsson’s mobile traffic will continue to grow and the number of 12-fold by 2021. Ericsson’s forecast reflected the growth in the industrial Internet (IoT), according to which the number of connected devices exceeds the number of mobile phones in 2018.
Ericsson’s recent book, according to the report the number of IoT devices is increasing annually by 23 per cent. Globally network connected devices should be as a result of growth in 2021 a total of 28 billion, of which 16 billion would be industrial-Fi devices.
Source: http://www.uusiteknologia.fi/2016/06/01/parissa-vuodessa-verkkoon-enemman-esineita-kannykoita/
More:
Ericsson Mobility Report
http://www.ericsson.com/mobility-report
In this Ericsson Mobility Report, we continue to describe the evolution towards the Networked Society.
Internet of Things (IoT) is expected to surpass mobile phones as the largest category of connected devices in 2018
Between 2015 and 2021, IoT is expected to increase at a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 23 percent, making up close to 16 billion of the total forecast 28 billion connected devices by 2021.
LTE subscriptions grew at a high rate during Q1 2016. There were 150 million new subscriptions during the quarter, reaching a total of 1.2 billion worldwide. Subscriptions associated with smartphones also continue to increase, and are expected to exceed those for basic phones in Q3 this year.
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Digitalization is the manufacturing industry the question of destiny. No one can be excluded. And in the technology industry, according worth it, because digitalisation will increase the chance. Still, many traditional companies still dormant imagining that digitalisation apply to them.
“It’s time to worry, if digitization is not on the agenda of the company’s management team and Board of Directors meetings,”.
Source: http://www.uusiteknologia.fi/2016/06/01/digitalisaatiota-kukaan-vaistaa/
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An API-First Internet of Things Platform
http://www.zettajs.org/
Zetta is an open source platform built on Node.js for creating Internet of Things servers that run across geo-distributed computers and the cloud. Zetta combines REST APIs, WebSockets and reactive programming – perfect for assembling many devices into data-intensive, real-time applications.