Garden Guru Bluetooth sensor helps you grow homegrown food
Friday, January 11, 2019 by Christian Hargrave
Vermont-based AgTech startup Seedsheet has unveiled its newest product, the Garden Guru Sensor, a Bluetooth-enabled sensor that provides users with precise, real-time data to facilitate maximum plant growth and ensure everyone’s gardening experience reaps the benefits of homegrown food.
Seedsheet’s new BTE sensor ensures thriving, full-sized gardens...
Bluetooth mesh tech from Silicon Labs chosen by Xiaomi
Thursday, January 10, 2019 by Christian Hargrave
Xiaomi is launching their new smart home products using Bluetooth mesh networking technology from Silicon Labs. The new products from Mi Ecosystem partners include smart LED light bulbs, candle bulbs, downlights, and spotlights. The voice-assistant XiaoAi smart alarm clock serves as a gateway to control smart Bluetooth mesh lights through voice commands.
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Cloud technology survey reveals a hybrid cloud future
Sunday, December 23, 2018 by Richard Harris
LogicMonitor, a hybrid cloud SaaS-based performance monitoring platform for Enterprise IT, has polled 135 cloud professionals at AWS re:Invent to explore how companies are managing their workloads in the data center and in the cloud. The survey shows more than half of respondents are engaging with multiple public cloud platforms and that 11 percent have hybrid workloads...
Industrial IoT platform gets updates from Pulse Secure
Monday, December 17, 2018 by Richard Harris
Pulse Secure, a provider of Secure Access solutions to both enterprises and service providers, announced the release of Pulse Policy Secure (PPS) 9.0R3 to extend its Zero Trust Security model to IIoT devices and smart factories. The new version enables factories to streamline machinery repairs and diminish costly production downtime through IT-managed secure access...
IoT Gateway uses Ubuntu Core and integrates with AWS IoT Greengrass
Monday, December 10, 2018 by Richard Harris
Rigado’s Cascade IoT Gateway running Canonical’s secure operating system Ubuntu Core, has integrated with the newly released Amazon Web Services (AWS) IoT Greengrass features to help give teams an easy-to-use mechanism to get Bluetooth-based data to their cloud applications.
This new functionality combines the scalability of AWS IoT Greengrass edge comput...
IoT security gets tighter thanks to SDC Edge
Tuesday, December 5, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
StreamSets Inc. has debuted StreamSets Data Collector Edge (SDC Edge), an end-to-end data ingestion solution for resource and connectivity constrained systems such as Internet of Things (IoT) devices and the network infrastructure and personal devices that inform cybersecurity applications.SDC Edge packs the core functionality of the widely adopted StreamSets Data Colle...
Just What is Edge Analytics and Fog Computing
Friday, August 19, 2016 by Richard Harris
Foghorn Systems may be first to exploit the technology architecture called fog computing to solve the stickiest problems holding back adoption of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) applications.With its initial funding round, FogHorn has plans to rapidly expand market adoption of its software platform that enables companies to perform critical analytics on streaming d...
VMware Releases Liota SDK for Building IoT Gateway Orchestration Applications
Thursday, June 16, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
VMware has launched Liota (Little IoT Agent), a vendor-neutral open source software development kit (SDK) for building secure IoT gateway data and control orchestration applications. Liota has been generalized to allow, via modules, interaction with any data-center component, over any transport, and for any IoT gateway. It is intended to be easy-to-use and provides...
Webroot Launches New Cybersecurity Service for the Internet of Things
Wednesday, May 11, 2016 by Richard Harris
Webroot has released the Webroot BrightCloud Threat Intelligence for IoT Gateways, which provides a cybersecurity service for Internet of Things (IoT) Gateway partners and developers of IoT solutions to augment real-time protection against malicious threats, unauthorized network access, and Denial of Service (DoS) attacks. It provides a set of threat intelligence servic...
Microsoft Offers Developer Updates for Microsoft Office and Azure Services
Tuesday, April 5, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
In addition to the announcements we covered here during the Microsoft Build 2016 developer conference, there is now new functionality for developers to leverage Microsoft Office, Xamarin’s capabilities in Visual Studio Community, and new Azure Services.Microsoft Office PlatformAmong the new opportunities for developers to build on the Office platform includes ...
Dell Forms New IoT Division Whose First Release is IoT Gateways Device
Wednesday, June 24, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Dell has formed a new IoT product division offering partnerships with operational technology organizations with a goal of bridging the domains of operational technology (OT) and information technology (IT). The division will provides support for a broad range of Internet of Things offerings including security, manageability, services, analytics, infrastructure, and endp...
AllSeen Alliance Launches Open Source AllJoyn IoT Gateway Agent
Monday, January 12, 2015 by Richard Harris
The AllSeen Alliance, a cross-industry collaboration created to advance the Internet of Everything (IoT) through the AllJoyn open source software project, has released the AllJoyn Gateway Agent, an extension of the AllJoyn framework that delivers remote access, device management and fine-grained security and privacy control.The Alliance is an industry-supported collabor...
