Applied AI Weekly News

Justin Grammens

Welcome! I had another fun and exciting week covering articles for the Internet of Things. As promised in the last issue, our lead story below is all about the afternoon keynote and industry panel discussion from IoT Fuse: Conference 2016!

Besides the video, I cover a wide range of articles on wireless technology options, security, business and big data applications of the Internet of Things. I end the issue off with a few insightful articles both on hardware and how open source software is playing a crucial role in the advancement of the IoT.

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News

Afternoon Keynote Panel: IoT Ecosystems - IoT Fuse: Conference 2016

Here is the video of the keynote and afternoon panel from our IoT Fuse:Conference 2016. Enjoy!

How does the IoT Evolve? In Fits and Starts

This article is from a few weeks ago, but it highlights a number of the issues that we have been seeing recently with products that have run into significant issues (Nest for example) with their deployments and others who have just decided to shutdown (like Parse). There's always going to be casualties with any new technology.

France's SigFox Will Expand Its Dedicated IoT Network to 100 U.S. Cities

This was a big story this past week for those interested in wireless solutions in the IoT. SigFox and LoRa have been two competing technologies and are interesting from the standpoint of being able to give those building IoT solutions an avenue to deploy solutions that cover large distances.

Sponsor

Leading IoT Conference & Exhibition

The IoT Tech Expo is a leading Internet of Things event series which covers the entire IoT ecosystem. It hosts two day of top level content with 5 dedicated conferences including Connected Industry, Smart Cities and Connected Living. Upcoming events are taking place in Berlin (13-14 June), Santa Clara (20-21 October) and London (23-24 January).

Security

Rethinking Security for the Internet of Things

I enjoyed this article as it focuses not only on the aspects information security with: confidentiality, integrity and availability, but also the implication of data to be in motion vs being at rest.

Great Bay Software Launches Beacon 4.3 Strengthening Enterprise IoT Security

As the article states, "Gartner predicts that by 2020, 25% of all enterprise breaches will originate from IoT devices." Great Bay is looking looking to take the lead in this space.

NIST Pushing IoT Security

Article on the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) releasing a draft document imploring the engineers of internet-connected technology to build security into their systems.

Business

Honeywell Creates New Division Based on the Internet of Things

The Digital Transformation unit will help Honeywell Process Solutions’ customers more easily leverage the data, analytical, cloud and cybersecurity capabilities available.

We've Been Approaching The Internet Of Things All Wrong

I generally agree with with the sentiment of this article in that the consumer space is not where the IoT is at today and instead companies should be making products to impact on the commercial and industrial side first. While my company consults with companies on a whole range of connected devices, it's the business and industrial applications that are growing the fastest.

Big Data

Eight Data And Analytics Capabilities You'll Need For The IoT

Some of the points are obvious, but still a good article on things one should be thinking about when it comes to capturing and analyzing data from IoT devices.

Development

How Hardware Builds Two-Sided Markets in the Internet of Things

Starting with the quote that we all know that "hardware is hard", this article gives examples of where hardware, not software has spurred technology adoption in the past and how one company is finding success in using this hardware to build data solutions with open specifications and APIs.

DIY

Open Source near Ubiquitous in IoT, Report Finds

As I have seen with the latest IoTHackday : Makathon the teams would not have the time or effort required to build solutions in the 12 hours we have if we didn't leverage Open Source software. The team and myself were talking about how impressed we were with the amount of open source software for us to use in our development.