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IoT cybersecurity and PKI requires trust to be builtDec 17, 2020
At the core of IoT cybersecurity lies the answer to the question of who will be allowed to make what changes to which devices when and where. Done correctly, the Triangle of Trust™ seeks to ensure that only “the right people, make the right changes to the right edge devices”.... |
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Constrained devices operating with excellence on the edgeMar 26, 2021
This is the first in a series of articles with Ikerlan Ikerlan is one of Europe’s leading research and technology transfer agencies focussed on helping industrial companies and public sector organisations leverage innovations in IoT, Cloud and AI to advance their operations. The agency focuses on 3 core multidisciplinary areas of competence: Electronics, Information and communication technologies; energy and power electronics, and advanced manufacturing.... |
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Smart HEMS and the evolution of the Connected Home
Apr 07, 2021
Energy research and consulting company Delta-EE focuses on the energy transition and examines how the connected home is impacting energy management and consumption. The emphasis is on connected climate controls and home energy management (smart HEMS)....Smart Elevator needs secure OTA software updates
Jan 08, 2021
Andreas brings his considerable experience in engineering, project management and business intelligence to help Schindler Digital Group manage its device fleet. This initiative brings digital intelligence to its smart elevators, escalators and moving walkways that move billions of passengers each day....Digital signage, IoT and the retail experience
Feb 16, 2021
The digital signage market is exploding, everywhere we see LED walls instead of monitors. We have seen 3D projections as the latest gimmicks to try to showcase flagship stores. Tailoradio is a Milan-based company that focuses more on the experience and utilising digital and IoT technologies and human creativity around audio, video and sensory content to help retailers build engagements with visitors to their stores. Tailoradio was named by the Financial Times as one of the fastest growing companies in the sector out of 400 companies in Europe.... -
Smart Furniture in sophisticated settings
Feb 28, 2021
Targeting banks, automotive showrooms and hotels, among many other sectors and use cases, the company offers smart furniture solutions based on IoT to provide intelligent lamps and tables that use AI, multiple sensors and analogue technologies such as wood resonance to improve a meeting experience between a group of colleagues or between a provider and their customer....Dynamic load management, and the necessity for atomic updates and fail-proof OTA software updates
May 17, 2021
gridX is a platform for companies to build modern digital energy products. The gridBox, which is a custom gateway device in the field, and a central cloud application, enables many use cases in digital energy management. EV charging and dynamic load management is just one of several....EV charging and OTA software updates in the UK market
Jan 25, 2021
Niall is an expert on the EV charging space and has reviewed a wide range of emerging trends and technologies in sustainable energy and the smart cities space. He has forensically examined the key market trends on platforms, IoT devices, low carbon mobility and integrated energy solutions.... -
Welcome to Wireless Electric Vehicle Charging
May 13, 2021
The WEVC technology enables wireless charging from a wall box to a ground pad which transmits power through the air gap to a vehicle mounted receiving pad. There are 3 charging variants; Static (Parking bays), Semi Dynamic (Taxi Ranks and traffic lights) and fully dynamic where a vehicle can be charged without stopping during freeway driving at speeds in excess of 100 kph....ECUs and other IoT use cases need Onboarding Excellence
Jan 26, 2021
Onboarding mostly happens only once but if it works well then it will reduce significant volumes of calls to the help desk and increase customer satisfaction. IoT product makers need to think beyond designing and engineering a product that works well once it’s onboarded and activated, and actually think hard about how to ensure that the the many different types of users out there with differing degrees of tech savvy are able to easily connect the IoT product to the Internet in the first place....Telematics, connected mobility and OTA software updates
Feb 4, 2021
Tawfeeq leads the Product Marketing team for Telematics and Industrial IoT at iWave Systems. This leading embedded design and product engineering company offers a wide range of System On Modules and Single Board Computers built on a wide range of ARM processors and FPGA SoC platforms. iWave offers embedded computing platforms on different form factors such as Qseven, SMARC, SODIMM and HPC and works very closely with Tier-1 silicon companies such as NXP, Xilinx, Intel and so on.... -
Start stop systems with IoT and OTA software updates
Feb 19, 2021
These connected start stop systems optimize the fuel consumption and CO2 emissions from heavy duty off-road mobile machinery used in energy production. The company has an interesting background and stumbled on its flagship product of start stop systems through determined innovation and investigation of the underserved desired outcomes in the market....Edge devices and IoT device management in maritime
May 17, 2021
Maritime and shipping is an industry that can be conservative and can trail other industries when it comes to digital transformation. The industry is lagging with few standards in digital, mostly governed by national interests and regulations that can be often contradicting and confusing. But some companies are leading the digital change and it is focussed on IoT device management, edge devices and OTA software updates....Shipping containers with IoT and OTA software updates
Jan 25, 2021
Based out of Lausanne, Switzerland, Aeler Technologies manufactures shipping containers offering full in-transit visibility. These leading edge and digitally-empowered shipping containers are lighter to transport, are stronger to protect goods against temperature changes, enable a 10 to 20% CO2 emissions saving from transit, and provide real-time monitoring of goods in transit...
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Smart factory for Machine Makers
Dec 16, 2020
There are great industrial companies that teach us to always be innovating – now it’s based on digital – and we need to learn from these. Industrial manufacturers such as Achenbach Buschhütten GmbH & Co. KG are embracing the smart factory based on IoT device management and edge devices with Mender providing the robust and secure OTA software updates to the Yocto build of the OS and firmware of the IoT gateway devices on the production level controllers....Industrial IOT and how to make inroads into it
Mar 01, 2021
Andrew begins by saying that achieving Increased uptime and lower maintenance costs is a classic example of where IoT has been leveraged. Andrew continues to describe the approach in the industry “Put the vibration sensor on a motor or a gearbox as the most basic starter application. The fundamental idea is to continuously check the health of the equipment and to move from scheduled to predictive maintenance.”...Process Control and Digital Transformation
Mar 02, 2021
GEA is a company where process control and process equipment is undergoing digitalisation through IoT opening up great opportunities. This is one of the World’s largest technology suppliers for food processing and serves a wide range of other industries. Cormac works in the global technology division which is a central function in GEA. It looks to harness technology synergies across the wider GEA group.... -
PLCs, OTA software updates and the impact of IoT
Feb 09, 2021
Benedikt Miller is the CTO at codestryke. This is a consulting firm that specialises in helping industrial manufacturers and machine makers to use IoT and Cloud technologies to improve their business processes and increase productivity. Benedikt has responsibility for the designing and controlling all the technical aspects of the solutions with focus on industrial IoT. He supports some classic IoT use cases. These can include monitoring the status of production machines remotely, and supporting maintenance of those machines with a data-driven approach....Digital circuit breaker at the speed of nanoseconds & OTA software updates
Apr 26, 2021
Tim is a hands-on technical leader with over fifteen years of experience in the design, implementation, and management of connected systems. He understands hardware design, firmware development, embedded applications, distributed systems, and cloud solutions.He has also architected and Implemented several large commercial and industrial IoT systems. He knows systems for OTA software updates very well.... -
IoT Device Security Checklist
Feb 26, 2021
Colin Duggan is the Founder and CEO at BG Networks and is working to ensure embedded devices have sufficient levels of cybersecurity. He has a background as an electrical engineer and has significant experience leading large teams in applications development, systems engineering, and embedded systems development. Colin draws on his extensive experience to provide a checklist guide on what IoT project leaders should look for when assessing IoT device security for their projects....IoT Device Management –
OTA Software Updates, Config, Monitoring & TroubleshootingMar 17, 2021
Mender.io CTO Eystein Måløy Stenberg shares his expert insights on the challenges faced and opportunities to improve by better addressing the needs across the life cycle of IoT device management including OTA software updates, Configuration, Monitoring and Troubleshooting....IoT product design and OTA firmware updates at Mistywest
Mar 29, 2021
MistyWestis an IoT design consultancy based out of Vancouver, BC, Canada. The company started out designing skimboards, then from side engineering projects became a full service engineering design company that is now trusted by the likes of Amazon, Google and Intel.... -
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OTA software updates and spot spraying in AgricultureFeb 03, 2021
Spot spraying that results in up to 92% less water and pesticides being used is the sustainability that comes from applying IoT and AI-based technologies in agriculture. IoT and AI technologies have tremendous potential to improve processes in agriculture. In doing so, it can bring about a more sustainable production, and a major reduction in the use of pesticides and water....Smart city solutions –
Autonomous access control, traffic planning and OTA software updatesApril 07, 2021
Matt Madison is a highly respected software developer with a wealth of knowledge of enterprise technology from his time at Amazon AWS, Verizon and Cisco Systems. Now he finds himself in the brave new world of edge devices developing systems at Alcatraz.ai that increase the security of commercial and public buildings. He is also a highly esteemed open source community contributor to Meta-Tegra for Nvidia Jetson platforms on Github....IoT edge security & constrained edge devices
May 14, 2021
The recent ransomware attack on the Colonial Pipeline in the United States highlights the need for a renewed and intense focus on the proper protection of enterprise networks and the IoT devices that are becoming an increasingly integral part of these networks.
The Ikerlan cybersecurity team works in two strands: in one capacity, they validate hardware and software for embedded devices, and they look at securing cloud platforms, IoT and edge computing devices, and even the human machine interface. There is great collaboration between the two teams and their expertise is of tremendous value to their public and private partners....
