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E-paper displays can power IoT applications for years with a single coin cell battery

The goal of most designers of battery-powered IoT applications is finding the lowest power microcontrollers, sensors, and wireless connectivity. Of course, code optimisation is necessary to keep power consumption to an absolute minimum, too. (more…)

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February 8, 2017

Posted by: Avadhoot Patil

IIoT has promise but it’s not a slam dunk

Much has been written about Industrial IoT and its tremendous potential to help businesses improve operational efficiencies, drive down costs and enable new revenue streams. However, while opportunities to apply IoT within industrial settings abound, (more…)

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February 7, 2017

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Global energy and the IoT – Part 2

Distributed generation is forcing changes in the way power grids operate, along with environmental legislation by governments driving incentives to replace fossil fuel power plants with renewable energy. (more…)

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Laird’s new BL652 Bluetooth and NFC module for rapid enterprise IoT development from Alpha Micro has BT v4.2 support

Alpha Micro Components has begun distributing a new secure, certified Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) v4.2 and Near Field Communication (NFC) module, the Laird BL652. (more…)

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January 26, 2017

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IoT botnets present ‘Unmanageable’ cyber security risk, warns Juniper Research

New data from Juniper Research has found that the consumer IoT (Internet of Things) installed base will reach over 15 billion units by 2021, an increase of 120% over 2016. (more…)

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January 24, 2017

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There’s a fragmented choice of wireless technologies for low power, wide area IoT

The telecom industry is good at generating confusion, says freelance IoT and communications writer, Bob Emmerson. LTE Cat-1 services are being launched in the States but not NB-IoT (LTE Cat NB1 is the official term), which only arrives in 2018. (more…)

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January 20, 2017

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Advantech launches latest embedded platforms with 7th generation Intel Core processor family for IoT Era

Advantech, a provider of embedded computing solutions, has revealed its new comprehensive range of embedded computing platforms with the latest 7th generation Intel® Core™ processor family (formerly Kaby Lake). (more…)

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January 16, 2017

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Automation, IoT security, virtualisation and smarter cities: Juniper’s view of the year ahead

In 2016, 42 million adults (82%) in Great Britain accessed the internet every day, 26 million more than ten years earlier. The network underpinning this dramatic increase in demand needs to become smarter, and more automated to provide the secure access and connectivity demanded by those users. (more…)

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January 11, 2017

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IoT M2M Council elects Digi CTO Joel Young as new chairman

The Board of Governors of the IoT M2M Council (IMC) – with 20,000 members, the largest and fastest-growing trade group serving the IoT sector –has named Joel Young, CTO of Digi International, as its new chairman. (more…)

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January 5, 2017

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Thingsquare announces IoT starter kit combining wireless IPv6 meshing with Bluetooth beacons

Thingsquare has announce the availability of an IoT Sensortag starter kit, in collaboration with Texas Instruments and Weptech. This, says Jarle Boe, development kit manager at Texas Instruments and founder of the Sensortag platform, is the world’s first Internet of Things (IoT) system that combines remote connectivity through IPv6 meshing with proximity detection via Bluetooth beacons. (more…)

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