Illustration by The Project Twins Out of town for the US 4 July holiday, Kyle Turner got news that no lab manager wants to hear: his freezer was dying. “I was in western Massachusetts and getting these alerts on my phone,” says Turner, who manages an evolutionary-biology laboratory at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Freezers […]
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IoT is a web of physical devices connected to the Internet, enabled by sensors and software to collect and transmit data. Using IoT users can collect massive amount of data and convert into meaningful information by with the help of advance analytics techniques.The concept of IoT has evolved with the introduction of automated machines, such
MADISON, Wis. – Lack of security and fragmentation are often cited as basic reasons why the Internet of Things market has been slow to catch fire. By offering updates to its own IoT platform called IMPACT, unveiled last June, Nokia hopes to provide service providers, enterprises and governments with pre-integrated applications that help alleviate customers’
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The effort to bring better security to the Internet of Things continues, as another alliance has developed its own set of security principles. The Smart Card Alliance recently introduced its set of IoT security principles, which are modeled after government security standards The alliance’s principles focus on maintaining security throughout the entire lifecycle of IoT
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Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) has delivered a rapid transformation under CEO Satya Nadella. After his first few weeks as CEO, Nadella described a Mobile First, Cloud First vision on which strategic and organizational decisions would be evaluated. He has stuck to that vision ever since and the results are dramatic. No longer is “mobile” defined by a
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Silicon Labs acquires Zentri Silicon Labs has acquired Zentri, an innovator in cloud-connected Wi-Fi technologies for the Internet of Things (IoT). Zentri helps customers worldwide securely connect and manage products across a range of industrial, commercial and consumer applications. Zentri provides combinations of modules, embedded and cloud software, APIs and other tools for rapid development
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Even in this technological age (or maybe because of it), The Flintstones remains a powerful piece of pop culture. Far from the animated Honeymooners rip-off, it began as the chronicles of the modern stone-age family is the swinging sixties grandfather of all adult cartoons like The Simpsons and Family Guy. It’s a part of the
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The potential of IoT is clear, but it needs to be proven over the next year (Photo by: Shutterstock) For the last few years, technology vendors have been creating a buzz around the Internet of Things (IoT), and while IT decision makers may have taken notice, it has been tough to distinguish whether IoT is worthy of all
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Toward the end of 2016, ESET senior security researcher Stephen Cobb expressed concern about the possible mingling of three different types of system abuse: holding computer systems and data files hostage (ransomware); denying access to data and systems (DDoS); and infecting the Internet of Things (IoT) with malicious code. He hypothesized that in 2017 we
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“It can be overwhelming to think of the Industrial Internet of Things as an all-encompassing solution,” says Greg Giles, executive director of Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) and Argonaut for RedViking. “So what a lot of our customers do is find a system that’s going to provide them with new functionality to solve one particular problem—perhaps
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