In plain sight – how smart homes risk enterprise IoT, and why nothing is being done
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailWith the rise of connected devices in homes and offices spiralling upwards, Paul Hague, chief executive at UK cybersecurity firm BlackDice, says enterprises are letting vulnerable home devices onto their …
Deutsche Telekom intros NB-IoT-connected bins for sensitive documents
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailDeutsche Telekom has teamed up with logistics company Rhenus and the Fraunhofer Institute for Material Flow and Logistics (Fraunhofer IML) to develop an NB-IoT connected smart bins for disposing of …
Amazon, Comcast, NXP, Schneider develop Zigbee interoperability updates
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailThe Zigbee Alliance is coordinating efforts from the likes of Amazon, Comcast, Landis+Gyr, NXP, Osram and Schneider Electric to make smart home and IoT products easier to develop, deploy, and …
Panasonic and Toyota pool home and car tech in ‘smart town’ joint venture
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailJapanese firms Panasonic and Toyota have agreed to form a new smart cities joint-venture that combines the former’s expertise in the home gadgetry market and the latter’s work in the …
UK mulls security ratings and immutable passwords for IoT devices
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailThe UK government has set out a plan to secure and protect consumer IoT devices from cyber attacks. It is considering a mandatory labelling scheme to rate the security of …
Arm wins major meter management deal, “pulls in” Pelion customers in retail, logistics
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailArm is going after energy providers and device makers after striking a deal with Singapore-based EDMI, manufacturer of IoT modules for utilities, to provide the management platform for smart meter …
Ericsson maps cellular IoT to 5G, with new categories and solutions
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailEricsson has redefined its portfolio and vision for cellular IoT technologies in four categories, including two new segments for Broadband IoT and Industrial Automation IoT. It said the objective of …
‘No future Elon Musks in IoT’, ‘no future in IoT without LoRaWAN’ – team LoRa plots next moves
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailThis week, 1,500 business types from every-sized enterprise in the burgeoning IoT space will descend on Amsterdam in The Netherlands to chat LoRaWAN, the low-power wide-area (LPWA) networking technology that …
Arm, AT&T, Ericsson, HPE et al join new Linux group to bring order to edge IoT chaos
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailThe Linux Foundation has started a new umbrella organisation, LF Edge, to establish an open, interoperable framework for edge computing that is independent of hardware, silicon, cloud, or operating system. …
Amazon joins Zigbee board to push open standards in smart home, smart city
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailAmazon is to take a seat on the Zigbee Alliance board of directors. The Zigbee Alliance said the decision shows the IoT market is convening around its technology as a …
