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From Mars to Earth, Wind River to thwart vehicle hacking
Imagine you’re driving a two-ton SUV that’s travelling 70mph on the highway when suddenly, beyond your control, the air-conditioner fan starts blasting, the radio blares, windshield wipers whoosh back-and-forth and then the engine shuts down just as you approach a steep incline.
The role of system updates in the IoT
In the brave new world that the Internet of things (IoT) is shaping, Operational Technology (OT) and Information Technology (IT) are quickly converging. Up until now, IT was seen as defining a restricted range of technologies pertaining to information processing, mainly generating and communicating data. OT was the domain of machinery, mainly physical equipment that was doing the heavy lifting on the factory floor.
Google is helping emergency services respond faster
When emergency services receive a call they need accurate information, including a precise location, in order to arrive in time to be of assistance. Google has introduced an emergency feature in Android which sends the location from your phone to emergency services when you dial an emergency number.
Love is not in the air!
Steve Rogerson looks at some of the recent news that may have missed the front page. When I crossed the Atlantic to attend Cisco Live last month.
Flexible electronics ‘flex’ their muscles
What’s inside all electronic devices? The answer is rigid components like circuit boards, containing chips, resistors and capacitors - all held together with wires. Nicolette Emmino explains that things could be about to change.
Three software engineers and a bug
By Mike Skrtic, Sales and Marketing Director, Percepio. Recently, I was fortunate enough to have dinner with three embedded software engineers. It brought to mind a story that I thought would be both appropriate and amusing, so I shared it with them and, to my surprise, it was met with puzzled looks.
Narrowband‑IoT: Reaching the devices other technologies cannot
The Internet of Things (IoT) promises us a more connected, smarter world, but also presents a new set of technical challenges including which technology to pick for which use case. By Simon Glassman, Senior Principal, Strategic Partnerships, u-blox.
Disruptive evolution
A couple of weekends ago I took my mountain bike to a nearby park. Along the way, I noticed a larger than usual number of people young and old walking with their phones held out in front of them, smiling and focused on their screens. People playing Pokémon Go. By Mychal McCabe.
E-paper displays; a myriad of exciting applications to improve personal, industrial and consumer processes
To most of us, the mention of an e-paper display will remind us of devices like Amazon’s Kindle e-reader. But it’s not just e-readers that use this display technology. There are applications across many sectors such as in retail, marketing and travel. According to research company Technavio, the global e-paper display market is predicted to experience a huge compound annual growth rate of 41% over the period 2016 to 2020.
LTE – turning the tables on cable
In less than a decade LTE has transformed mobile communications from a voice‑centric dial‑up service into the high‑speed mobile broadband experience which we now take for granted. To migrate the internet from our homes to the streets and ultimately into our hands, vast infrastructure overhauls were necessary with unprecedented levels of investment to achieve the low‑latency, real‑time and high bandwidth service we now so heavily rely up...