Here are some IoT trends for year 2019 to watch:
More device: There are four times as many devices connected to the Internet as there are people in the world, and the number of devices is increasing rapidly. There are computers, smart phones and many different kind of connected devices. Gartner forecasts that 14.2 billion connected things will be in use in 2019, and that the total will reach 25 billion by 2021,
Voice: The integration of voice into IoT devices creates an user experience that many consumers seem to enjoy. The next few years will see voice automation take over many aspects of our lives. The current major players in the IoT voice world are Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s Siri, and Google Assistant. Microsoft’s Cortana seems to have already lost in the game as Satya Nadella says Cortana won’t challenge Alexa and Google Assistant directly; Microsoft will focus on making it a skill on other voice platforms instead. Voice won’t change everything but it will be one part of a movement that heralds a new way to think about our relationship with devices and data. Consider voice as a type of user interface to be added to the existing list of UI technologies. Voice will not kill brands, it won’t hurt keyboard sales or touchscreen devices — it will become an additional way to do stuff; it is incremental. We need to learn to design around it.Deloitte expects the sales of 164 million smart speakers at an average price of $43 in 2019. The smart speaker market will be worth more than $7 billion next year, increasing 63% from 2018’s $4.3 billion.
Automobiles: Automobiles are leading the way in IoT adoption. Gartner predicts that one in five cars will be connected by 2020. Both Google and Apple have tools that allow drivers to control calls, listen to messages and control apps using voice.
IoT clouds: Developing for the Internet of Things is a complex endeavor, and nobody wants to do it from scratch. IoT data platforms offer a jumping-off point by combining many of the tools needed to manage a deployment from device management to data prediction and insights into one service. There are many IoT cloud platforms to choose from. All cloud platforms have their own distinctive areas of pros and cons. Ultimately the project needs and cost-effectiveness determine whom to choose. Utilizing cloud services also brings new potential risks that are good to understand already at the beginning of the project. I wrote on article to Uusiteknologia.fi magazine issue 2/2018 on IoT cloud platforms.
Digital Twins: Digital twin tech, or a virtual representation of a product, is a critical concept in IoT that’s still being sorted out. Digital twin refers to a digital replica of physical assets (physical twin), processes, people, places, systems and devices that can be used for various purposes. Definitions of digital twin technology emphasize two important characteristics: connection from the physical model to the corresponding virtual model and this connection is established by generating real time data using sensors. Physical objects and twin models interact. Digital twins applications typically integrate internet of things, artificial intelligence, machine learning and software analytics with spatial network graphs to create living digital simulation models that update and change as their physical counterparts change. In various industrial sectors, twins are being used to optimize the operation and maintenance of physical assets, systems and manufacturing processes.
Edge computing: The shift from centralized and cloud to edge architectures is well under way in the IoT space. In the future, computing the edge of the network will become an increasingly important way of processing data from networked devices and sensor networks. Compared to traditional centralized cloud computing, the new edge computing brings computing servers closer to the edge of the communications network. Compared to cloud centered IoT solutions, edge computing allow for lower delays and more reliable operation with respect to cloud services. At the same time, it promises improved security as not all potentially sensitive information needs to be transferred from the site to cloud. However, this is not the end point because the neat set of layers associated with edge architecture will evolve to a more unstructured architecture comprising of a wide range of “things” and services connected in a dynamic mesh. In thins kind of system data processing can be done on almost all network devices from IoT modules to gateways and in the future to 5G base stations. Relevant standardizing organizations on this field are Edge Computing Consortium Europe, OpenFog Consortium and Industrial Internet Consortium.
5G: 5G networks start to arrive. The standards for 5G will be defined in large part by the direct integration of Internet of Things (IoT) and Industrial IoT (IIoT) devices into global networks and devices. 5G networks are expected to be 10 to 100 times faster than current LTE technology. If you are in need for very high speed, your application resides inside the small 5G test networks coverage areas and your IoT device is allowed to consume considerable amount of power (more than 4G solutions), then you might be able to consider 5G. For all other cases I don’t see 5G would offer much for IoT applications in 2019. There is not yet ready 5G standards specifically designed for IoT applications. So for 2019 IoT and IIoT will need to be pretty much stick to 4G technologies like NB-IoT and LTE-M. For 5G to shape industrial computing application in larger scale than just some small tests we will have to wait till 2020. Addressing the issues behind Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) devices and 5G is important in next few years. Qualcomm, the largest supplier of modem chips used in smartphones, has introduced the X50 modem to give IIoT devices the ability to communicate over 5G networks. Beware of “fake 5G” marketing in 2019. The promise is that 5G will enable the future enterprise technologies everyone is predicting and waiting for: fleets of self-driving delivery trucks, virtual (VR) and augmented reality (AR), and a world of enterprise Internet of Things (IoT) deployments — systems that will define an era that the World Economic Forum termed the “Fourth Industrial Revolution.” Those promises will take years to realize, you will not see most of them in real use in 2019.
AI: Number one in Gartner’s predictions, no surprise, is artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence and machine learning will be talked a lot with bold claims that AI goes from expert-only to everywhere. I would not expect it to be everywhere in 2019. Gartner, said in a statement, “AI will be applied to a wide range of IoT information, including video, still images, speech, network traffic activity, and sensor data.” At the moment many neural network systems are power hungry when implemented with traditional computer hardware. “For example, the performance of deep neural networks (DNNs) is often limited by memory bandwidth, rather than processing power.” By 2023, it’s expected that new special-purpose chips will reduce the power consumption required to run a DNN, enabling new edge architectures and embedded DNN functions in low-power IoT endpoints.
IIoT: The concept of a Smart Factory is composed of many different physical and informational subsystems, such as actuators and sensors, control systems, product management systems and manufacturing systems that all work together. This is a very complex system. It is critical to understand differing operational technology (OT) and information technology (IT) priorities to achieve collaboration and integration. Without this, Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and control projects will fail. Also finding the right Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) vendor partner is crucial to success. OPC Foundation has on initiative to extend OPC UA out to field devices to provide vendor-neutral, end-to-end interoperability beyond the plant. Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) network works well for OPC UA applications.
Value chain: IoT as an umbrella term will diminish. There are strong views that “Internet of things is not valuable in and of itself” so the conversation is going to shift away from an ambiguous buzzword to the actual use of technology. For product designers this means that when we design our connected world, we need to pull ourselves away from the cool technology that we are building and look at the system through our customers’ eyes. The sales pitch will be more like “It’s about the use cases, it’s about the solutions, it’s about the applications, managing and monitoring assets, performance management solutions, different kinds of solutions coming together to solve a problem—that’s really what the value proposition is.”
IoT platforms: IoT vendors will compete to be the destination for IoT platforms. The IoT supply chain has been moving toward more collaboration to provide development and design kits designed for specific use cases and industries. IoT development kits are sold more and more with bundled IoT could service offer. IoT cloud service providers offer and recommend hardware that is tested to work well with their platforms. IoT platform vendors will be narrowing their scope in 2019, honing in on specific use cases. Business professionals aren’t looking for one industrial IoT platform to manage every process going on at their company, they are instead looking for platforms that specialize in specific tasks.
New development kits: A new breed of development kits is incorporating the three tenets of IoT design — ease of use, security, and business value. The promise is that the design engineers don’t need to have specialized expertise in several areas like networking protocols or security-related tasks, enabling a much faster development time. One way to simplifying design work is by intelligently reusing the fundamental building blocks.
Security: Wireless IoT devices are considered a major threat to the security of industrial networks. A growing number of embedded systems are open to security threats as a result of increasing connectivity and IoT device adoption. And it’s costing OEMs a lot in terms of money and reputation. A 2018 Gartner Inc. survey found that nearly 20% of organizations surveyed experienced at least one IoT-based attack in the past three years. IoT security is already a 1.5 billion dollar market. The market research firm Garnet expects that global spending on IoT security will rise to $3.1 billion in 2021, up from $1.5 billion in 2018. It is not about the spending on IoT security products. Already “a significant portion of OEMs’ existing in-house labor cost is already dedicated to addressing security” and is rising faster than development costs. VDC pegs the worldwide embedded engineering labor spend related to security at $11.6 billion in 2017, representing nearly 8% of the overall cost of embedded engineering labor. There will be different kind of certification marks for IoT product cyber security – some mandated with laws on some countries and some voluntary. 5G is going to increase security risks. Do we understand the 5G security threats to come? Most probably not because we don’t seem to understand well even that 5G really is.
eSIM: The embedded SIM card has been spoken for a long time, and even the first smartphones in which the SIM card has been implemented with an integrated circuit have already been introduced to the market. Infineon has presented the world’s first industrially qualified eSIM. Of course, eSIM shares opinions. Many operators do not like it.
Infonomics and Data Broking: Last year’s Gartner survey of IoT projects showed 35 percent of respondents were selling or planning to sell data collected by their products and services.“Data is the fuel that powers the IoT and the organization’s ability to derive meaning from it will define their long term success,” This brings us to Social, Legal and Ethical IoT because“ Successful deployment of an IoT solution demands that it’s not just technically effective but also socially acceptable,” It is possible tha tIoT Firms Face a ‘Tidal Wave’ of Lawsuits.
IoT Governance: As the IoT continues to expand, the need for a governance framework that ensures appropriate behavior in the creation, storage, use and deletion of information related to IoT projects will become increasingly important. We also need to manage IoT devices to keep them secure and make sure that they do what they are supposed to do. A market for IoT managed services will develop to help manage and operate fragmented IoT assets. “The idea of managing the ongoing end-to-end life cycle of a connected product is becoming more important, and ultimately this managed service opportunity is going to need momentum in the coming year,”
New Wireless Technologies: IoT networking involves balancing a set of competing requirements, such as endpoint cost, power consumption, bandwidth, latency, connection density, operating cost, quality of service, and range. No single networking technology optimizes all of these.
Trusted Hardware and Operating System: Gartner surveys invariably show that security is the most significant area of technical concern for organizations deploying IoT systems. Today organizations often don’t have control over the source and nature of the software and hardware being utilised in IoT initiatives. “However, by 2023, we expect to see the deployment of hardware and software combinations that together create more trustworthy and secure IoT systems.
Home automation: Arm predicts that the intelligent home goes mainstream. In survey results they published two-thirds of respondents said technology became “more a part of my life” during 2018. Cisco Systems is saying connected homes will be a big driver for the Internet of Things. “Connected home applications, such as home automation, home security and video surveillance, connected white goods, and tracking applications, will represent 48%, or nearly half, of the total M2M connections by 2022, showing the pervasiveness of M2M in our lives,” Cisco states in its new white paper, Visual Networking Index: Forecast and Trends, 2017-2022. The market is starting slowly. Bundled IoT services will try to motivate a slow consumer market.
Smart cities: Cities are becoming smarter and smarter in an effort to improve efficiency in operations. Smart cities bring in both benefits and risks. Between smart lighting, traffic controls, and public transportation, smart cities are bringing in a whole new family of threat vectors. Cybercriminals will target smart cities with ransomware attacks. Smart cities need to take precautions.
Silicon Chip Innovation: “Currently, most IoT endpoint devices use conventional processor chips, with low-power ARM architectures being particularly popular. However, traditional instruction sets and memory architectures aren’t well-suited to all the tasks that endpoints need to perform,” New special-purpose chips will reduce the power consumption required to run a DNN. Very low power circuit designs are important in many applications. Battery-powered designs require complex optimizations for power in the context of area, performance and functionality. Devices that work without battery and gather operating power from environment are maybe even more challenging. Clearly, sensors are a big part of any connected device, and there is a lot of innovation occurring in this market that delivers new features — think AI — all housed in smaller packaging.
Open source: 2019 Will Be the Year of Open Source in IoT and embedded systems applications. From software and even hardware, we saw more activity in open source than ever before in 2018. And the momentum isn’t likely to slow down in 2019. Arduino is pushing strongly to IoT markets with MKR1000 series of IoT boards. Raspberry Pi is very widely used in IoT systems, especially on prototyping and small scale deployments
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Links to other articles for IoT trends for 2019:
Internet of Things in 2019: Five predictions
Kymmenen tulevaisuuden kuluttajatrendiä ja ilmiötä
Deloitte’s 9 tech predictions for 2019
New Chip Architectures, Sensors and Trust in Top 10 IoT Trends (Gartner presented its top 10 strategic IoT technology trends)
Week In Review: IoT, Security, Auto (predictions from Arm, Deloitte and Juniper Research)
Predictions 2019: The Internet Of Things
Gartner Identifies Top 10 Strategic IoT Technologies and Trends
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5 ways the food industry can improve food safety with the IoT
https://iot.eetimes.com/5-ways-the-food-industry-can-improve-food-safety-with-the-iot/
The IoT is making it possible to keep goods safer and healthier as they move from party to party, which prevents the spread of foodborne illness and also improves the overall customer experience.
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Teardown: Wi-Fi LED light bulb
https://www.edn.com/design/led/4461990/Teardown–Wi-Fi-LED-light-bulb
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Data: The next great resource
https://www.home.sandvik/en/news-and-media/stories/articles/2018/02/data-the-next-great-resource/
Industry 4.0 is the next phase in digitalization. It is driven by a sharp rise in data volumes, computational power and connectivity, the emergence of analytics and business-intelligence capabilities, new forms of human-machine interaction and improvements in transferring digital instructions to the physical world, such as advanced robotics and 3D printing, according to consulting company McKinsey.
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Internet of Things Technology Will Connect Highways, Street Lights, and Vehicles
https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-institute/ieee-products-services/internet-of-things-technology-will-connect-highways-street-lights-and-vehicles
As more and more intelligent cars and autonomous vehicles hit the road, some engineers are thinking about what can be done to smarten up the streets on which they travel.
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Decentralized Access Controls for IoT Device Networks
https://innovate.ieee.org/innovation-spotlight/access-control-iot-device-network/
While access management technologies do exist in the IoT, they are based on centralized models that bring technical limitations on the global scale. To address this issue, a team at Ericsson Research proposed a new architecture for arbitrating roles and permissions in the IoT.
“Our architecture provides a decentralized management system connected to a geographically distributed sensor network,” explained Oscar Novo. “The solution is based on blockchain technology, which eliminates the bottleneck effect caused by a centralized system, and allows new IoT devices to join easily.”
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Reverse-Engineering Suspicious IoT Devices Installed Under Employee Desks
https://blog.hackster.io/reverse-engineering-suspicious-iot-devices-installed-under-employee-desks-475674d08a69
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What Mozilla WebThings Has to Offer for the IoT
https://blog.paessler.com/what-mozilla-webthings-has-to-offer-for-the-iot
As it was reported in a blog post on Mozilla Hacks, the Web of Things program “Project Things” has outgrown the experimental stage and is now being renamed Mozilla WebThings. It’s Mozilla’s open source implementation of the Web of Things, including the WebThings Gateway and the WebThings Framework; it’s an open platform for controlling and monitoring devices over the web.
https://iot.mozilla.org/
An open platform for monitoring and controlling devices over the web.
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Unlocking IoT Data with 5G and AI
https://innovate.ieee.org/innovation-spotlight/5g-iot-ai/
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Amazon home robot prototype is reportedly waist-high and can be summoned by voice
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/12/amazon-vesta-home-robot-prototype-still-in-development.html
Amazon is still working on a home robot, according to Bloomberg.
A current prototype of the “Vesta” robot is about waist-high and can roam around your home using cameras, the report says.
Amazon invests heavily in robots for its warehouses but has not yet launched a home robot.
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Decentralized Access Controls for IoT Device Networks
https://innovate.ieee.org/innovation-spotlight/access-control-iot-device-network/
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What is Apache Kafka?
https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/integration/what-is-apache-kafka
Apache Kafka is a distributed data streaming platform that can publish, subscribe to, store, and process streams of records in real time. It is designed to handle data streams from multiple sources and deliver them to multiple consumers. In short, it moves massive amounts of data—not just from point A to B, but from points A to Z and anywhere else you need, all at the same time.
Apache Kafka is an alternative to a traditional enterprise messaging system
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https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/12/amazon-reportedly-ramps-development-on-alexa-powered-home-robot-on-wheels/
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Teardown: Security camera network module
https://www.edn.com/design/consumer/4462106/Teardown–Security-camera-network-module
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https://pentestmag.com/iot-security-its-complicated/
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Putting Machine Learning Into the Home and Onto the Internet of Things
Want to buy a smart camera for $20?
https://blog.hackster.io/putting-machine-learning-into-the-home-and-onto-the-internet-of-things-39cd251e6226
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Basics of blockchain for the IoT
https://www.edn.com/design/systems-design/4462120/Basics-of-blockchain-for-the-IoT?utm_content=buffer86932&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer
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This Man Has Trusted the Internet to Take Care of His Zebra Plants for Three Years
https://blog.hackster.io/this-man-has-trusted-the-internet-to-take-care-of-his-zebra-plants-for-three-years-685e233a2c23
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Mozilla debuts implementation of WebThings Gateway open source router firmware
https://venturebeat.com/2019/07/25/mozilla-debuts-webthings-gateway-open-source-router-firmware-for-turris-omnia/
For the better part of two years, the folks at Mozilla have been diligently chipping away at Mozilla WebThings, an open implementation of the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web of Things standard for monitoring and controlling connected devices. In April, it gained a number of powerful logging, alarm, and networking features, and today, a revamped component of WebThings — WebThings Gateway, a privacy- and security-focused software distribution for smart home gateways — formally debuted.
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https://www.zerynth.com/blog/combining-internet-of-things-and-machine-learning-using-zerynth-microsoft-azure-and-xinabox/
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Amazon is killing off the Dash button later this month
https://tcrn.ch/2SXiZwm
Amazonstopped selling the Dash button earlier this year; now they’re ending support for them altogether. In an email to Dash users, Amazon says that Dash button devices will cease to function as of August 31st, 2019.
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Ben Fox Rubin / CNET:
Following its move to stop selling new Dash buttons in February, Amazon says it will turn off the capabilities of all its Dash buttons worldwide on August 31
Amazon is going to kill your Dash button
https://www.cnet.com/news/amazon-is-going-to-kill-your-dash-button/
The online retail giant says all Dash buttons will stop working at the end of the month.
Way back in 2015, the buttons were Amazon’s way of adding a little bit of smart-home magic into people’s appliances, bathrooms and closets.
Amazon, the world’s largest online retailer, has expanded its lineup of smart-home gear to include Ring video doorbells, Fire TV Edition televisions and a slew of Echo smart speakers.
That change has made the Dash button obsolete, since plenty of printers and washing machines now essentially include Dash buttons built into them. If you want to buy something new, you can ask Alexa, instead of waiting for Amazon to send you a new button so you can then set it up and press it. In fact, it’s now so much easier to buy stuff at home that some might complain that it’s too easy, resulting in impulse purchases and excessive consumerism.
Amazon has replaced the physical buttons with virtual Dash buttons on its website, which will continue to be available.
While those buttons will no longer work by month’s end, folks will notice Dash’s core concept of more seamless shopping remains alive in just about every smart home.
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Reverse Engineering A Modern IP Camera
https://hackaday.com/2019/03/28/reverse-engineering-a-modern-ip-camera/
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https://hackaday.com/2019/03/28/wopr-security-loses-some-of-its-obscurity/
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Hack My House: UL Certification And Turning The Lights On With An ESP8266
https://hackaday.com/2019/04/22/hack-my-house-ul-certification-and-turning-the-lights-on-with-an-esp8266/
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Ikea doubles down on smart home tech with new business unit
https://tcrn.ch/31I3Z8G
Ikea’s smart home investments to date have been smart but scattered – now the Swedish home goods brand says it’s going to amp up its smart home bets with a brand new dedicated business unit.
“At IKEA we want to continue to offer products for a better life at home for the many people going forward. In order to do so we need to explore products and solutions beyond conventional home furnishing,” said Björn Block, Head of the new IKEA Home smart Business Unit at IKEA of Sweden, in a press release from the company.
IKEA invests heavily in the smart home going forward
https://newsroom.inter.ikea.com/news/all/ikea-invests-heavily-in-the-smart-home-going-forward/s/211c6cbc-6db5-4c5b-bb52-391741fca4c1
IKEA Home smart was initiated as a project in 2012 with the ambition to enrich life at home by incorporating digital elements and technologies into products and solutions. Several launches within the smart home has followed since then and now IKEA has taken the strategic decision to invest even more in the home smart area by establishing IKEA Home smart as its own business unit within IKEA of Sweden.
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https://www.edn.com/design/consumer/4462192/Teardown–Blink-XT-security-camera
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Too Many Health Wearables and Apps Are Digital Snake Oil
https://spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/devices/too-many-health-wearables-and-apps-are-digital-snake-oil
As more technology firms produce wearables, apps and connected medical devices that claim to help people live better or treat diseases, we need to draw a line between digital wellness and digital medicine. The entire health care industry needs to implement rigorous standards that can help differentiate between truly therapeutic products and the digital equivalent of snake oil.
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Avoid the chaos of GDPR in the realm of IoT
https://www.nabto.com/gdpr-in-iot/
Faced with stricter regulations on data processing under the EU’s GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) and a growing demand for IoT-functionality within the field of consumer devices, companies now have an important decision to make when it comes to choosing the correct IoT platform.
In this blog post, we’ll boil it down to just one important choice you have to make.
Failing to comply with these new regulations can result in a hefty fine of up 20 million Euros or 4 percent of gross annual turnover, depending on which sum is higher. In addition to a financial penalty, non-compliance can severely tarnish a company’s reputation and reduce trust among its customer base.
The degree to which GDPR complicates data processing depends on the type of data collected and the way it is processed. GDPR applies to sensitive personal data, but in the field of IoT it is not always clear what this constitutes. In addition, your choice of platform dictates whether you will be affected by GDPR.
Database-driven or P2P IoT: an important decision for any company
Keep it simple – and secure
The alternative to the cloud is a P2P IoT platform. Here, the client interacts directly with the device and no data is stored in the cloud.
We also use the cloud, but the P2P technology we run simply acts like a telephone switchboard – mediating direct, end-to-end encrypted connections between the client (app on a smartphone or tablet) and the IoT device. Once this connection is established, the cloud server is out of the loop, and the connection is only between the client and the IoT device.
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Hackers can turn headphones into ‘acoustic weapons,’ cybersecurity expert warns
https://nypost.com/2019/08/13/hackers-can-turn-headphones-into-acoustic-weapons-cyber-security-expert-warns/
Speakers on your phone, computer and other internet-connected devices could be hacked and used to wreak havoc on your eardrums, warns a new investigation.
A cybersecurity expert claims to have conducted a malware test that found everyday items like headphones could be turned into “acoustic weapons.”
Blasting music at really high volumes is dangerous because it can cause conditions like tinnitus, psychological issues of even deafness.
He also observed that the components in the smart speaker started to melt four or five minutes into his malware attacks and were permanently damaged.
emit frequencies could be used to track someone’s movements
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Internet of Medical Things!
IoT for medical devices is a market that is growing, and that with no surprise, as medtech gets smarter, better and faster.
An example of this is one of the largest hearing aid manufacturers in the World, Widex and their use of Nabto’s P2P technology in their products. Read more about this in the reference case below:
https://www.nabto.com/featured_item/widex/
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The Key Factor Being Ignored by IoT Developers
https://www.designnews.com/automation-motion-control/key-factor-being-ignored-iot-developers/193337685461336?ADTRK=InformaMarkets&elq_mid=9950&elq_cid=876648
IoT device and application developers are connecting everything they possibly can without considering how their device operates when the internet is not available.
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https://nanoframework.net/
nanoFramework is a free and open-source platform that enables the writing of managed code applications for constrained embedded devices. It is suitable for many types of projects including IoT sensors, wearables, academic proof of concept, robotics, hobbyist/makers creations or even complex industrial equipment. It makes the development for such platforms easier, faster and less costly by giving embedded developers access to modern technologies and tools used by desktop application developers.
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Using IoT to improve water quality in developing countries
https://innovate.ieee.org/innovation-spotlight/low-cost-water-iot/
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BLE central support added to ArduinoBLE
https://blog.arduino.cc/2019/08/27/ble-central-supported-added-to-arduinoble/
Arduino boards with a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) chipset can act as a “host” for other BLE devices. That’s because the ArduinoBLE library has added BLE Central support.
https://blog.arduino.cc/2019/08/27/ble-central-supported-added-to-arduinoble/
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Battery-Free Approach to Ocean Internet of Things
https://blog.hackster.io/battery-free-approach-to-ocean-internet-of-things-df5581ff4a1b
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Sending Data Using Sound with Chirp and Arduino
https://blog.hackster.io/sending-data-using-sound-with-chirp-and-arduino-f7bce243b460
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Which IoT Development Board Is Right for Your Project?
https://blog.hackster.io/which-iot-development-board-is-right-for-your-project-aee36b212bf0
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TinyGo on Arduino
https://blog.arduino.cc/2019/08/23/tinygo-on-arduino/
Arduino now works with TinyGo, the popular compiler that brings the Go programming language to microcontrollers.
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https://blog.hackster.io/qt-introduces-bare-metal-toolkit-for-microcontrollers-5c552280a317
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Google is a bald-faced IoT liar and its Nest pants are on fire
Internet of walled gardens? Go single vendor with your IoT, or else.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-is-a-bald-faced-iot-liar-and-its-nest-pants-are-on-fire/?ftag=COS-05-10aaa0h&utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+Trending+Content&utm_content=5d6fd8aa4b188d00011b95b8&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=facebook
notification that Google would shortly be ending the Works With Nest program, in favor of a new Google Nest program, as a result of Nest being rolled into Google’s hardware business last year
The end result of this is that my Haiku Fans would no longer work with my Nest thermostat if I accept Google’s offer to migrate my Nest account over to my Google account so that the Nest thermostat (and anything else Nest-based) can integrate under Google Assistant APIs instead.
There seems to be some uncertainty as to when products that were designed to integrate with Works With Nest will permanently lose that functionality.
Google is stating that anything that was designed to integrate with Works With Nest will continue to function, but no new functionality can be added, nor can new devices access the old Works With Nest (WWN) cloud APIs.
There are quite a few products out there that were designed for Works With Nest, which includes Philips Hue smart lights, Chamberlain smart garage doors, and Wemo smart plugs — all of which I currently have in my house.
You know what? This stinks. Loss of interoperability is not exactly what I bargained for when I bought all this IoT crap for my house.
IoT was supposed to bring about this wonderful new era of integrated devices in the smart home. Instead, we now have walled gardens of stuff running in their own isolated ecosystems because the hyper-scale cloud vendors, such as Google and Amazon have decided they’d prefer you to have devices that run in their own fiefdoms entirely.
But that Google can suddenly decide to sunset a cloud API that hundreds of IoT devices have been talking to for less than five years is a bit disturbing. It means that the idea of mixing and matching products for home automation — the very premise of what IoT and the smart home was supposed to be — is a farce. It is a bald-faced lie, and Google’s pants are on fire.
In my opinion, Google should be held responsible — as in, subject to enormous fines for making customers waste their money like this and for misleading their partners for all this time. Yes, I think a class-action lawsuit, as well as antitrust proceedings, should be under consideration
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A downside of one company controlling everything is that one company controls everything. Be careful what you wish for
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https://www.uusiteknologia.fi/2019/09/05/nokian-erikoisrenkaisiin-iot-anturit/
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5 askelta helppoon IoT-kokeiluun
https://www.dna.fi/yrityksille/blogi/-/blogs/5-askelta-helppoon-iot-kokeiluun?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=linkad&utm_content=artikkeli_5_askelta_helppoon_iot_kokeiluun&utm_campaign=pk_jatkuva_some_19
Monen suomalaisen yrityksen ulottuvilla olisi matalalla roikkuvia hedelmiä, jos ne tarttuisivat IoT-maailman mahdollisuuksiin. Liiketoimintaa hyödyttäviin mahdollisuuksiin kuitenkin pääsee kiinni vain yhdellä tavalla: kokeilemalla itse.
Kokeilemisen kynnys on tänä päivänä hyvin matala. Ratkaisevaa on päätös toimia ja aloittaa IoT-kokeiluprojekti. On tavallista, että aluksi innoittaa odotus kustannussäästöistä, mutta projektin kuluessa silmät kannattaa pitää auki. Usein sensoreiden data auttaa näkemään uusia, fiksumpia mahdollisuuksia kehittää liiketoimintaa ja luoda uusia palveluita. Yritys voi löytää IoT-ratkaisun, josta kasvaa koko toimialan muutosvoima.
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CASE STUDY
IOT SOLUTIONS WITH ARDUINO: THE FLUID INTELLIGENCE STORY
https://www.okdo.com/case-study/iot-solutions-with-arduino-the-fluid-intelligence-story/
A lack of visibility makes maintaining safety standards in heavily industrialized environments such as oil management tough at the best of times. And, with excessive oil changes leading to additional maintenance and wasted production time the challenge continues.
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IoT: Internet of Toilets.
This smart toilet seat monitors your heart health through your gluteus maximus
https://www.fastcompany.com/90403299/this-smart-toilet-seat-monitors-your-heart-health-through-your-gluteus-maximus
Researcher Nicholas Conn, one of the seat’s inventors, explains why this unlikely form of health monitoring is so practical.
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https://www.electricaltechnology.org/2016/07/internet-of-things-iot-and-its-applications-in-electrical-power-industry.html
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Location tracking is one of the IoT’s biggest uses, and the FiRa Consortium and the Bluetooth Special Interest Group are both making a case for their tech.
Where’s My Stuff? Now, Bluetooth and Ultrawideband Can Tell You
https://spectrum.ieee.org/telecom/standards/wheres-my-stuff-now-bluetooth-and-ultrawideband-can-tell-you
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Google Rolls Out “Orwellian Nightmare” Technology To Spy On You In Your Home
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/google-rolls-out-orwellian-nightmare-technology-spy-you-your-home
Google’s new Nest Hub Max is a smart display unit that comes equipped with a 6.5-megapixel facial recognition camera that identifies you and monitors all your actions – inside your own home.
And the Orwellian icing on the cake is that it is not equipped with a physical shutter to forcibly prevent it from monitoring what’s happening in your home.
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The New AI Toilets Will Scan Your Poop To Diagnose Your Ailments
https://techgrabyte.com/ai-toilets-scan-poop-diagnose-ailments/
Well, it’s sound weird but in the upcoming future, your toilet will be your mini doctor. A company called Micron is developing a smart artificial intelligence-powered toilet that will reportedly be able to diagnose your state of health and risk of disease by analyzing your bodily waste.
“Imagine smart toilets in the future that will be analyzing human waste in real-time every day.”
The smart toilet is able to perform, fecal analysis and urine analysis. These are two of the most commonly-used conventional tests to determine the well-being of a patient.
You will surprise to know that the poop is more made up of bacterias than old food. Around 50 to 80 % of your poop is actually bacteria that had been in your intestines and was then ejected as food passed through.
Having an ongoing analysis or diagnosis could take place onboard any smartphone or tablet device, and this could lead to people taking an active role in their health almost every day.
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Amazon Sidewalk is a new long-range wireless network for your stuff
https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/25/amazon-sidewalk-is-a-new-long-range-wireless-network-for-your-stuff/