Applied AI Weekly News

Justin Grammens

A number of fun articles surfaced this week covering a broad range of topics! I have chosen to weight it little heavy on Big Data with Microsoft leading a surge in coverage around their Azure platform. In many ways Microsoft missed out the mobile app/device wave and they are very keen not to repeat that with the IoT.

I also came across a number of videos from leaders discussing the Industrial Internet. This week I chose to include an interview from Rose Schooler of Intel. I will be featuring others in future weeks.

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News

Makers Meet Manufacturing

Awesome article on the Maker movement and specifically what it means for bringing products to market.

The Challenge of Connecting Anything to the Internet

Spark’s latest product, the Electron, is a tiny development kit that can connect just about any kind of device to Spark’s back-end platform over a 3G cellular signal for as little as $3 per month.

Security

Why Security Needs to Be the Future of IoT

As the article states, "We must harden IoT products via a Software Development Life Cycle. Otherwise, we risk repeating our mistakes of the early 2000s, only this time with many, many more connected devices.".

Big Data

How Microsoft's Fast Track Azure Will Help Businesses Conquer IoT

Microsoft is just the latest in a number of companies hopping on the IoT bandwagon and bundling services that allow those with early stage concepts to try out their cloud based platform. This is good for those of us who invent and build new products!

Google Updates Cloud Platform, Delivers Dataflow Beta

Google is back with another service around big data and analytics. As a successor to MapReduce, Dataflow is a managed service for creating data pipelines that ingest, transform and analyze data in both batch and streaming modes. If you are a developer, this looks interesting!

Microsoft Power BI Visualizes Temboo's IoT Data Streaming

Tying together not only the data from sensors, but the business intelligence around it is what provides value to companies. Two companies have partnered up to give and easy setup and configuration option to consumers.

Why Big Data And The Internet of Things Are A Perfect Match

Article reinforcing the fact that it takes not only the data capture, but the analytics piece to provide the true value of what customers are going to want to do in the areas of the IoT tomorrow.

Industrial

Maintenance Shops With No Parts?

Experts see a day in which airlines will able to order parts only when needed, because health-monitoring and data will allow the mechanics to predict exactly what they will need before anything fails.

Credit: EMBRAER

Wearables

Wearables and the IoT: Recent Developments and Connectivity Solutions

While integrated electronics are mostly self-contained, the ability to print and weave display elements, conductors, and energy harvesting into fabrics is on its way up the learning curve. Printing certain highly integrated functions like radio chips and microcontrollers into clothing, however, is not yet feasible and these will remain as discrete elements for now.

Video

Voices of the Industrial Internet Consortium: Rose Schooler, VP, IoT Strategy, Intel

Rose Schooler, VP, Internet of Things Strategy, Intel discusses the role that the Industrial Internet is playing in the way we work as well as the importance of the Industrial Internet Consortium.

Development

SparkFun CryptoShield

The CryptoShield is a dedicated security peripheral for the Arduino which will allows you to add a hardware security layer to your Arduino project.

How To Install Windows 10 IoT On Your Raspberry Pi 2 | TechCrunch

After seeing success by a number of other companies, Microsoft is jumping into the maker space by offering Windows 10 for free to Raspberry Pi 2 users. Check out how to get Windows 10 running on a device for $35 dollars!

Network

IoT Sensor Networks Seek Routes

Sensor network routing can be setup and configured a number of different ways. This article covers some of the use cases around an expanding network.