New IoT light detection sensors from L com
Monday, April 10, 2023 by Brittany Hainzinger
L-com announced the expansion of its line of IoT light-detection environmental sensors. The sensors gauge either ambient or ultraviolet light.
The new sensors assist in the use of IoT data collection to make process control more efficient and lower building and process costs. Applications for light-detection sensors include greenhouses, agriculture, solar farms, labs...
Digital twins will aid developers in 2023
Tuesday, January 24, 2023 by Richard Harris
Dr. William Bain is the founder and CEO of ScaleOut Software, which develops software products to provide operational intelligence for live systems using scalable, in-memory computing. Bill earned a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Rice University. Over a 40-year career focused on parallel computing, he has contributed to advancements at Bell Labs Research, Intel, a...
Kinetica as a service is now available on Azure
Tuesday, October 26, 2021 by Austin Harris
Kinetica, the database for time and space, is now easily accessible as a service on Microsoft Azure, giving organizations real-time contextual analysis and location intelligence on massive data sets with reduced computing infrastructure and lower costs.
Organizations across industries rely on Kinetica's vectorized database to analyze data from sensors and ma...
Everynet launches secure IoT to digitalize Puerto Rico infrastructure
Thursday, September 3, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger
Everynet BV announced the completed roll-out of a secure data network designed to enhance Puerto Rico's infrastructure modernization initiatives.
"There is a great opportunity to enable efficiencies with the Internet of Things (IoT) in Puerto Rico," says Tom Nelson, Everynet's Chief Commercial Officer. "Everynet brings this experience...
IoT security standards to come with Sprint Curiosity IoT
Tuesday, September 18, 2018 by Richard Harris
Sprint has unveiled the Curiosity IoT platform, a new standard in how IoT is managed and secured. Enterprises will now be able to manage IoT devices and connectivity over the air across multiple SIM profiles. Intelligence from device data will be generated instantly through the dedicated, distributed and virtualized core, built together with the new operating system. An...
Estimote LTE Beacons hit the market
Tuesday, August 28, 2018 by Richard Harris
Estimote, Inc. was founded in 2012 by Jakub Krzych and Lukasz Kostka, and in 2013, they launched their first product, the Estimote Bluetooth Beacons compatible with iBeacon. Since then, Estimote has built a community of 150,000 developers worldwide - all using their SDK and Beacons to build incredible real-world interfaces that dovetail app experiences with your su...
Geodata analysis and storage optimization enhanced by HarperDB
Wednesday, July 18, 2018 by Austin Harris
HarperDB has new features that allow real-time geo-analysis, storage optimization for edge devices and the ability to run massive data analysis. As a result, they say companies tackling complex IoT projects can achieve a more intelligent edge without incurring further storage or hardware costs.
HarperDB features include:
Geographical Data Analysis: HarperDB'...
Machine data and SQL database release from Crate.io
Thursday, June 21, 2018 by Richard Harris
Crate.io announced $11 million in series A funding, along with the commercially-available Crate Machine Data Platform and version 3.0 of the open source CrateDB. The new funding was led by Zetta Venture Partners and Deutsche Invest Equity with participation from Mike Chalfen, Momenta Partners and Charlie Songhurst. Existing investors Draper Esprit, Vito Ventures and Sol...
Open source HarperDB database solution studio launched
Wednesday, May 16, 2018 by Richard Harris
The HarperDB database solution (founded in 2017) can be used for IoT project development, app development and enterprise data warehouses. This week at IoT World, they announced the availability of HarperDB Studio - an open source solution (Github download) to bring the company's database solution to end users, DBAs, and data scientists. HarperDB Studio allows organizati...
Google Cloud looks to streamline IoT management
Wednesday, February 28, 2018 by Richard Harris
Google has announced that their Cloud IoT Core, a fully managed service to help securely connect and manage IoT devices at scale, is now generally available. With Cloud IoT Core, you can easily connect and centrally manage millions of globally dispersed connected devices. When used as part of the broader Google Cloud IoT solution, you can ingest all your IoT data and co...
The evolution of Cloud Firebase
Thursday, October 5, 2017 by Richard Harris
These days, if you're developing a mobile or web app, there's a good chance you'll need to sync your data to the cloud. Maybe that's because your users want to share data with their friends for some exciting in-app collaboration, or maybe they simply want to access their data from more than one device.But syncing data between all those devices and the cloud isn't quite ...
Samsung ARTIK lets you monetize the data shared by IoT devices
Monday, July 31, 2017 by Richard Harris
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. just launched Samsung ARTIK Cloud Monetization for the Internet of Things (IoT), which is a new service to monetize the data shared by IoT devices and enable an IoT data economy. For the first time since the dawn of IoT, device manufacturers and service providers can tap into an open ecosystem and create service plans that generate rev...
New Actian Zen delivers a nano database footprint solution for IoT
Thursday, July 6, 2017 by Richard Harris
Actian, a hybrid data management, analytics and integration company, has released Actian Zen Embedded database, a multiplatform, embeddable database for developers delivering applications to self-managed, small footprint environments. Actian Zen is suited to meet the needs of software developers and data-driven device manufacturers delivering IoT applications. Appl...
Google releases new Cloud IoT Core service
Wednesday, May 17, 2017 by Richard Harris
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) has released their new service called Google Cloud IoT Core. Cloud IoT Core makes it easy for you to securely connect your globally distributed devices to GCP, centrally manage them, and build rich applications by integrating with our data analytics services.When used as part of a broader Cloud IoT solution, Cloud IoT Core gives you access to...
Canonical collaborates to with NXP to improve IoT
Wednesday, March 22, 2017 by Richard Harris
NXP and Canonical have collaborated to port Ubuntu Core to the LS1043A, a quad-core SoC targeted at IoT gateways and networking equipment. With this combination, device manufacturers gain a platform with which to build high throughput IoT Gateways.Ubuntu Core has been used in a variety of devices from IoT Gateways to network equipment. IoT Gateways benefit from the wide...
All eyes on Mobile World Conference 2017
Wednesday, February 22, 2017 by Richard Harris
As all eyes turn to the Mobile World Conference (MWC) in Barcelona this month (27 February - 4 March, 2017), Ovum’s analyst team have gathered their views regarding what they expect to see at the world’s largest and most highly regarded mobile industry event.A key theme, which recurs throughout the report is the belief that MWC 2017 will mark a further shift in the evol...
Kinetica Launches Install Accelerator and Application Accelerator programs
Thursday, November 3, 2016 by Richard Harris
Kinetica has announced the immediate availability of Install Accelerator and Application Accelerator programs, two new software and services offerings designed to help customers quickly ingest, explore and visualize streaming data sets, including for Internet of Things (IoT) use cases, by leveraging the power of GPUs. Kinetica is an in-memory, GPU-accelerated database t...
TIBCO Is Releasing Project Flogo for ZeroCode IoT Data Processing
Friday, May 27, 2016 by Richard Harris
TIBCO Software has released two new products including Project Flogo, an ultra-lightweight integration software solution, and TIBCO Graph Database, a translytical database for Big Data. The TIBCO Graph Database is a translytical database that transforms a complex web of dynamic data traversable relationships to help deliver real-time insight and action. It stores a...
SAP Announces New IoT Functionality for its HANA Cloud Platform
Tuesday, May 17, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
SAP has announced new IoT functionality for its HANA Cloud Platform and SAP HANA Vora software. SAP is supporting OpenStack as the cloud infrastructure and Cloud Foundry as the open source framework for SAP HANA Cloud Platform. The new IoT offerings from SAP include:The IoT foundation bundle for SAP HANAProvides a set of capabilities for IoT data management including sm...
IBM Releases New Blockchain Services on the IBM Cloud
Friday, February 19, 2016 by Richard Harris
In addition to releasing more than 44,000 lines of code to the Linux Foundation's open source Hyperledger Project to help developers build secure distributed ledgers, IBM is increasing its technology and business consulting to facilitate blockchain distributed ledger technology.New blockchain services on the IBM CloudThe New IBM Cloud blockchain services are designed to...
Take a Deep Dive Into IoT at the Data Analytics and Visualization Summit
Thursday, January 21, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
As the IoT market matures we are starting to see a number of niche conferences that drill down into specific strategies related to IoT. The IoT Data Analytics & Visualization Summit does so for the topics of IoT data and visualization and will be held at the Crowne Plaza in Palo Alto, California on February 9-11. Solely focused on addressing IoT Data, the event...
IoT Data Analytics & Visualization Summit Will Be Held February 9 – 11
Tuesday, December 29, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
The IoT Data Analytics & Visualization Summit is dedicated to showcasing the ways in which companies can evolve their strategy and focus from the basics of connecting things to fully capturing the value available through leveraging the potential of IoT data and analytics.The event will be held on February 9 – 11, 2016 at the Crowne Plaza in Palo Alto, California. Mo...
TempoIQ Adds Updates to Its IoT PaaS NoCode Platform
Tuesday, November 10, 2015 by Richard Harris
TempoIQ has launched of the 4th generation of its PaaS-based no-code application platform which provides the ability to create IoT dashboards, mobile applications, and websites without writing code. The latest release provides new functionality into the ability for companies to create custom applications, real-time dashboards and design data visualizations with time-tra...
IBM IoT Foundation Offers ARM mbed IoT Developer Starter Kit
Tuesday, September 15, 2015 by Richard Harris
IBM’s Internet of Things (IoT) platform - IBM IoT Foundation – has announced an integration with ARM to provide out of the box connectivity with ARM mbed-enabled devices to analytics services. The integration will allow large quantities of data from devices such as industrial appliances, weather sensors and wearable monitoring devices to be gathered, analyzed and acted ...
HP Updates Vertica and Introduces Haven Startup Accelerator
Monday, August 17, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
HP has unveiled a number of new products, services, and programs designed to help organizations leverage data and analytics to build new products and experiences.These include a new release of HP Vertica, which will feature data streaming and advanced log file text search to power high-speed analytics on Internet of Things (IoT) data. Also announced is new support for a...
IoT Hype Is Understated a New Report Says
Wednesday, July 22, 2015 by Richard Harris
James Manyika, Jonathan Woetzel, and Richard Dobbs, directors of the McKinsey Global Institute, have co-authored a new report, The Internet of Things: Mapping the Value Beyond the Hype, which attempts to determine exactly how IoT technology can create real economic value.According to the authors, “Our central finding is that the hype may actually understate the full pot...
Sierra Wireless Introduces Linux Powered IoT Platform
Wednesday, June 24, 2015 by Richard Harris
Sierra Wireless has introduced its next-generation of AirPrime WP Series of smart wireless modules for the development of connected products and applications for the Internet of Things. The WP Series provides an integrated device-to-cloud architecture enabling IoT developers to build a Linux-based product using a single module that sends valuable user and product data t...
Top 5 Tips for RESTful APIs and Closing the Loop on OAuth2.0
Friday, May 8, 2015 by Brian Alexakis
Many of the devices and gadgets that comprise the Internet of Things require that end users sync data to cloud services via a 1st party app. End user data is then exposed to developers over a RESTful API from the hardware vendor cloud services. It is up to each vendor to implement the OAuth2 protocol and define their own RESTful API for their service and as such there i...
How the Internet of Things will Affect Business App Developers
Monday, April 27, 2015 by Brian Alexakis
I think we can all agree, IoT is an exciting frontier for developers. It seems like in no time we'll run into the Jetsons and experience the future-is-now convenience of automated flying cars that tuck themselves away into a brief-case. That stuff of science-fiction is quickly becoming a reality today with IoT. However, much of the attention around IoT focuses on the co...
IBM Announces $3 Billion IoT Initiative
Wednesday, April 8, 2015 by Richard Harris
IBM has announced that it plans to spend $3 billion over the next four years to establish a new Internet of Things (IoT) business unit, and that it is building a cloud-based open platform designed to help clients and ecosystem partners build IoT solutions.These resources will be made available on an open platform to provide manufacturers with the ability to design and p...
AGT International Launches IoTA In Order To Give IoT Developers More Tools
Wednesday, October 22, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
AGT International has announced it will launch IoTA, a modular, open, cloud-based platform for IoT application developers that offers IoT-specific analytics, data management and visualization capabilities. IoTA powers a number of IoT offerings built by AGT, and by making the platform available to other developers, AGT will provide developers with IoT solutions that can ...