Tag: IoT

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RIPE NCC’s Marco Hogewoning on IoT Regulation in the UK

Marco Hogewoning, of the RIPE Network Coordination Centre (RIPE NCC), has taken on the topic of regulating the Internet of Things (IoT) in the UK – and highlights that “while there could be benefits […] there are also a lot of challenges.” In a piece penned for Information Age, Marco… Read More

European Commission Harmonises Radio Spectrum for Short-Range IoT, RFID Projects

The European Commission has announced a plan to harmonise the radio spectrum allocations for short-range devices in a pair of popular frequency bands, to help support Internet of Things (IoT) project development and deployment. Adopted as what is known as an “Implementing Decision,” the European Commission’s plan will see additional… Read More

Iridium, Amazon Partner on Globe-Spanning Satellite IoT Network

Satellite communications giant Iridium has announced a partnership with Amazon’s Web Services arm to launch a globe-spanning cloud-powered communications network for the Internet of Things (IoT): Iridium CloudConnect. Based on Iridium’s constellation of 66 cross-linked communications satellites, Iridium CloudConnect ties the company’s satellites into the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud… Read More

MQTT Misconfiguration Leaves IoT Users Vulnerable, Says Avast

Security specialist Avast has warned of misconfiguration in ‘smart home’ products that are leaving thousands of users vulnerable to attack, thanks to accidental exposure of Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) servers. “Both MQTT and [popular broker software] Mosquitto have broad security capabilities — for example, to provide fine-grained access control… Read More

Researchers Unveil Performance-Boosting OLC Network Architecture

Researchers at Brunel University London have announced a novel architecture for software defined networks (SDN), dubbed Open-Level Control (OLC), which they claim will help networks deal with the growing volume of messaging from Internet of Things (IoT) devices over the coming decades. “We believe we have developed the best discovery… Read More

ON Semiconductor Launches IoT Development Kit

ON Semiconductor has announced the launch of the Internet of Things (IoT) Development Kit (IDK), a development board ecosystem designed to make prototyping and test as rapid as possible. “ON Semiconductor recognised early on that something needed to be done about the disjointed situation that exists between the hardware and… Read More

Linux Foundation Launches IoT-Focused ACRN Hypervisor

The Linux Foundation has announced the ACRN (pronounced “Acorn”) Project, an effort to develop a reference hypervisor for the Internet of Things (IoT) in the face of existing solutions being too bulky and unwieldy for embedded use. “With project ACRN, embedded developers have a new, immediately available hypervisor option,” claims… Read More

Mike Wishart Calls for “Open Innovation” in the IoT

Mike Wishart, chief executive officer at electronics crowdsourcing platform efabless, has issued a call for a move beyond open source software and into the realm of “open innovation.” “Embedded open source software not only works; most our world runs on it today,” Mike writes in the introduction of an… Read More

UK Government Publishes “Secure by Design” IoT Policy

The Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport of the UK Government has published a policy paper on the development and sale of Internet of Things (IoT) devices from a security perspective, dubbed “Secure by Design.” “We want everyone to benefit from the huge potential of internet-connected devices and it… Read More

Google Acquires Xively for IoT PaaS Push

Advertising giant Google has announced it is pushing further into the Internet of Things (IoT) with the planned acquisition of cloud data platform Xively from current owner LogMeIn. Xively – originally a project of architect Usman Haque under the working name EnvironmentXML, then launching as Pachube (pronounced “patch-bay”) before being… Read More

Mozilla Launches Things Gateway IoT Platform

Mozilla, the organisation behind popular open-source browser Firefox, has announced the release of a stable build of its Things Gateway, promoting its Internet-of-Things (IoT) focused Project Things initiative from a ‘hack’ to a launched – though early-stage – product. Originally unveiled as a prototype back in June 2017 under… Read More

Researchers Demonstrate 3D Printed Passive Wi-Fi Sensors

Researchers from the University of Washington have demonstrated wholly passive, electronics-free Internet of Things [IoT] sensors, produced on commodity 3D printers, which are nevertheless capable of transmitting data to nearby Wi-Fi receivers. Based on similar backscatter principles as radio frequency identification (RFID) tags, Vikram Iyer and Justin Chan’s work takes… Read More