Applied AI Weekly News

Justin Grammens

Welcome!

This week I'm proud to share that our IoT Fuse: Conference 2016 event at the Minneapolis Convention Center was a massive success! From not only the number of tweets with hashtag #IoTFuse17 to the lead article in this issue, we are extremely happy by those who attended, presented and gave their time and energy. Thank you - it was an amazing event.

Looking forward, one of our sponsors, Parks Associates is running a Connected Home Conference in San Francisco on May 23-25 that we suggest you plan to attend.

We also cover some really fun topics on IoT Security, Business and a Video on Creating Business Value with the IoT. I hope you enjoy this issue and please tweet it to your followers!

News

IoT Fuse Has Set A New Standard This Year

Speakers and attendees from across the country are gathering to meet and great, learn, and connect all the things along the way. From the known quantities of Amazon, Arrow, Microsoft and Digi International to the yet to launch startups, the industry is concentrated right here, right now in Minnesota.

Building An Organizational IoT Competency: What You Need To Know

Building an organizational competency is even more complex and requires a multitude of components: people, processes, products, market knowledge, new skills in new areas and effective communication up, down and across the organization.

Besides Blockchain, What's Missing from the Internet of Things?

Obviously, the blue-sky scenario for fully distributed, autonomous e-commerce is many years off. Bob Stock notes, “Whatever system you and I envision today is unlikely to be what actually gets put in place.... We’ll see pieces of this come together.”

Internet of Things Security: What Happens When Every Device Is Smart and You Don't Even Know It?

Billions more everyday items are set to be connected to the internet in the next few years, especially as chips get cheaper and cheaper to produce -- and crucially, small enough to fit into even the smallest product.

Sponsor

The Premier IoT & Connected Consumer Networking Event

Join over 700 senior executives at CONNECTIONS™: The Premier Connected Home Conference, May 23-25 in San Francisco.

CONNECTIONS™, celebrating its 21st year, is the only research event focused on consumer IoT including connected entertainment, connected health, connected car, and smart home industries in an intimate networking environment.

Listen to over 100 speakers discuss use cases and emerging business models that will successfully engage consumers and grow revenues in the converging IoT industries - including smart home, connected health, connected entertainment, and mobile ecosystems.

Security

IoT Security is Hard: Here’s What You Need to Know

If you have ever run a server and checked your logs you have probably noticed that there is a lot of automated traffic trying to gain access to your server on a nearly constant basis. An insecure device on a network doesn’t just compromise itself, it presents a risk to all other networked devices too.

Will Internet of Things Ever Be Safe?

The Internet of Things (IoT) has undergone an amazing transformation, from a pipe dream to a marketing buzzword, and now an impending reality. Recent estimates expect the number of Internet-connected devices to reach 26 billion by 2020, with some studies suggesting an even higher output.

Business

Surveys Show High Hopes, Deep Concerns About IoT

Industrial IoT's big future is starting to become a reality, but many companies still don't think they're ready for it.

Here's What Tesla's Larger Automotive Market Play Means

Tesla CEO Elon Musk shed new light on the company’s future business plans via a series of tweets late last week, revealing that the company is planning to expand into new segments of the automotive market - including pickup trucks and tractor-trailers.

Industrial

Custom Manufacturing With IoT Gateways

As stated in the article, "Customized manufacturing has been around for some time, with products tuned and configured for all customer needs. Now, Internet of Things (IoT)-based approaches are providing custom manufacturers even more power to reduce human error, gain increased visibility into the granular details of the manufacturing process, and conduct predictive maintenance."

Video

Creating Business Value with the IoT, Part 2

In this video, Ken Johnson, Senior Director of Product Management at Red Hat, talks about the IoT architectural shift that developers should consider early in the project lifecycle in order to make the best use of existing IT investments.