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Justin Grammens

Greetings IoT Weekly News Readers!

Welcome to Issue 139 of the IoT Weekly Newsletter. We are back at it this week with exciting IoT and Artificial Intelligence related articles that I've discovered and curated for you!

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News

Lab651 Acquires Applied Logic Engineering

Lab651, an end-to-end product design, development, and engineering company focusing on the Internet of Things, today announced the acquisition of Applied Logic Engineering, a privately-held engineering services company that specializes in developing IoT products for commercial and industrial applications. The acquisition of Applied Logic Engineering will strengthen Lab651’s service portfolio in embedded product development and aligns with the strategy of Lab651 to further provide end-to-end design services for connected solutions.

Why AIoT Is Emerging As The Future Of Industry 4.0

Two trends that are dominating the technology industry are the Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). But for industrial automation, these two technologies are much more than the buzzwords or trending topics. The convergence of AI and IoT will redefine the future of industrial automation. It is set to lead the Industry 4.0 revolution.

Why AI and IoT Will Play a Big Role in Retail of Tomorrow

The pandemic has left irreversible changes within the retail industry as consumer behavior during a time of limited and regulated movement evolved. A PYMNTS 2020 Remote Payments Study reported that mobile devices are the most popular device for online shopping, with up to 72% of consumers using their mobile devices to shop.

The Internet of Things in Action

This is a view shared by Forrester. In its recent report, revealingly entitled ‘Predictions 2020: The Internet of Things’, the research company said that IoT is likely to push smart displays, 5G, supply chains, and new business models and will be used by organizations to transform products and services.

The 7 Best Internet of Things Stocks for a Connected Future

The internet of things involves the use of devices and sensors to send data across a network. This allows for benefits like predictive maintenance, the use of artificial intelligence, and the leveraging of remote medicine. And so what about the internet of things stocks? Well, there is a variety available. But before looking at them, let’s consider some of the trends in the industry.

Amazon's Ring Drone Camera Sets a Bad Precedent for Privacy

Ring's Always Home Cam doesn't offer nearly enough convenience to justify its risks to privacy. The trade-off at the core of most privacy debates pits convenience against access to your data. The idea is, the more data you let a tech giant access, the better they can help you: Google's services, from Search to Gmail to Google Maps, are prime examples of this trade-off at work. Google says it can serve up results, from ads to restaurant recommendations, informed in part by what it knows about your preferences.

Security

The Top Internet of Things (IoT) Authentication Methods and Options

IoT authentication is a model for building trust in the identity of IoT machines and devices to protect data and control access when information travels via an unsecured network such as the Internet.

Strong IoT authentication is needed so that connected IoT devices and machines can be trusted to protect against control commands from unauthorized users or devices.

Blockchain: The Underlying Architecture of Secure IoT Solutions

With an avalanche of data privacy scandals unfolding in the past few years, such as those involving Cambridge Analytica, Apple, and, most recently, Avast, the question of personal data management and security is up in the air. The proliferation of consumer IoT devices complicates things even further, with more and more unprotected data up for grabs. When it comes to all this data, blockchain developers are faced with two issues: data privacy and data transparency.

SAP BrandVoice: Learn How Internet Of Things Is Transforming The Fight Against Climate Change

It was at the 21st Conference of Parties (COP21), when history was made as nearly the entire world signed the landmark Paris Climate Agreement to counter climate change. Since that 2015 agreement, COP21 has been the most significant business-focused event driving sustainable development and advancing the “green economy.”

Business

This IoT Play Is Getting Hot Once Again

As a pure-play IoT company, Sierra looked all set to switch into a higher gear in 2017 as it struck partnerships with notable companies such as Volkswagen. The chipmaker turned in a mixed performance in 2018 before it lost its way last year -- reporting a double-digit revenue drop in 2019 as it tried to cut costs and transform the business model.

Healthcare

IoT + AI = Divine Healthcare Pair for helping Elderly

The human body grows old — dammit! As we age our bodies becomes a host to several diseases and inabilities. It’s like the reverse cycle of a young-one growing up that executes in the opposite direction. Here’s how AI and IoT in healthcare can help dementia patients.

Big Data

What Is The Artificial Intelligence Of Things?

IoT devices use the internet to communicate, collect, and exchange information about our online activities. Every day, they generate 1 billion GB of data! That’s a lot.

AIoT: When Artificial Intelligence Meets the Internet of Things

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a technology helping us to reimagine daily life, but artificial intelligence (AI) is the real driving force behind the IoT’s full potential.

From its most basic applications of tracking our fitness levels, to its wide-reaching potential across industries and urban planning, the growing partnership between AI and the IoT means that a smarter future could occur sooner than we think.

How AI at the Edge, IoT Generate Enterprise-Wide Savings

As manufacturers seek to streamline their businesses, they want to gain more insight into the health of their equipment, with the goals of keeping it running smoothly, ensuring optimal performance, and reducing unexpected downtime.

Development

NVIDIA Announces $59 Jetson Nano 2GB, A Single Board Computer With Makers In Mind

NVIDIA kicked off its line of GPU-accelerated single board computers back in 2014 with the Jetson TK1, a $200 USD development system for those looking to get involved with the burgeoning world of so-called “edge computing”. It was designed to put high-performance computing in a small and energy-efficient enough package that it could be integrated directly into products, rather than connecting to a data center halfway across the world.

Real Time Machine Learning at Scale using SpaCy, Kafka & Seldon Core

A hands on tutorial that covers how to train a machine learning model using the Reddit comment moderation dataset, and deploy it in a scalable infrastructure using Kafka and Seldon Core

In this post, we will cover how to train and deploy a machine learning model leveraging a scalable stream processing architecture for an automated text prediction use-case.

Connect any IoT sensor to Azure

You can now connect existing sensors to Azure with little to no-code using IoT Plug and Play bridge! For developers who are building IoT solutions with existing hardware attached to a Linux or Windows gateway, the IoT Plug and Play bridge provides you an easy way to connect these devices to IoT Plug and Play compatible services.