IoT

At embedded world 2015, Infineon presented a device identity management solution for smart home applications. iBadge is a plug and play solution for secure connection of devices in the IoT. Thanks to iBadge, users can comfortably and securely access home networks via smartphone apps and cloud-based services to remotely switch on heating on the way home or access video surveillance while travelling.

  Wind River has enhanced and expanded its Helix product portfolio to address the system-level opportunities and challenges of the IoT. The company has also created an IoT professional services offering to assist customers with the creation and deployment of IoT applications.

Microsemi has announced a reference design with Escrypt GmbH that utilises the security features of SmartFusion2 SoC FPGAs and IGLOO2 FPGAs along with Escrypt's CycurKEYS cloud-based Certificate Authority (CA). The collaboration with Escrypt reinforces Microsemi’s position as a secure SoC FPGA leader and enhances its strategy for providing crucial solutions that secure the IoT.

Connect One has introduced an IoT end-to-end platform to help customers bring IoT products to market faster. The iChipNet includes all the building blocks required for IoT product design, hardware, software and connectivity. Since industry IoT standards are not yet in place, end-to-end solutions from a single vendor can ensure interoperability so that components seamlessly ‘talk’ to each other.

There is a great deal of overlap and confusion when it comes to IoT standards. Device developers and design engineers understandably have lots of questions. Cees Links, CEO, GreenPeak Technologies, has written a whitepaper covering who is doing what and why it matters, guiding readers through the various layers to try and make sense of it all.

A series of node and gateway devices, which allows System Integrators to build their own IoT environment, has been released by Advantech. The WISE-3000 devices, which feature WISE-cloud IoT software, provide remote device management, reliable data acquisition and security protection for many IoT applications.

Cloud Service capabilities have been added to ILS Technology’s deviceWISE Application Enablement Platform for the industrial IoT. These capabilities help redefine the information-driven enterprise, transforming manufacturing, energy and natural resources, transportation and retail transaction management with improved connectivity, real-time data that increase performance, reliability and competitiveness within factories, remote locations an...

CSR has released connectivity solutions for the ARM mbed OS that will enable developers to produce complete IoT solutions with increasing speed and ease. Two mbed expansion boards, also known as shields,  will be offered to the IoT developer community: one combining WiFi and Bluetooth based on the CSR6030 and CSR8311; and the other offering Bluetooth Smart connectivity based on the CSR1010.

Texas Instruments' SimpleLink family was introduced earlier this year as a low-power platform to simplify the ability to connect IoT solutions. Developers can gain additional design flexibility with a certified Internet-on-a-chip module option, as TI has added to the family, announcing the availability of its SimpleLink WiFi CC3100 and CC3200 modules for IoT applications.

Analog Devices has announced that Elster has selected ADI’s ADF7241 smart metering solution for use in gas and electricity meters as part of a nationwide energy efficiency initiative sponsored by the British government. Under the Smart Metering Implementation Programme, more than 50m smart gas and electric meters will be installed in all homes and small businesses across the U.K. by 2020.