The Internet of Things (IoT) is an inherently ambiguous buzzword. An IoT device can mean anything from an appliance in your smart home or your connected car to essentially any object into which some company has decided to put a chip and connect to the internet. In actuality, consumer-facing devices are only one bucket under …
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This is Part Three of PCMag’s trend overview, breaking down the enterprise IoT landscape through the lens of this year’s Mobile World Congress. Check out Part One on enterprise use cases here. The Internet of Things (IoT) was one of the top-billed themes at Mobile World Congress this year, but the enterprise side of the …
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This is Part Two of PCMag’s three-part trend overview breaking down the enterprise Internet of Things landscape through the lens of this year’s Mobile World Congress. Check out Part One on enterprise use cases endpoint security providers as well as manufacturers such as Philips are securing them. From an enterprise perspective, it’s about a bottom-up …
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IoT (Internet of Things) is about connecting physical objects (“things”) to the Internet. Technically, this is done by attaching a computer to a “thing.” A computer is attached in a way that it can read data from the thing and report to the Internet, and also it can receive commands and control the thing’s state. …
In light of the recent massive WikiLeaks posting about alleged CIA hacking techniques, one section deals with a secret way to convert voice-controlled smart TVs into spying tools. The technique, dubbed as “Weeping Angels” by WikiLeaks, is claimed to have been co-developed by the British MI5 and the CIA to install software on smart TVs, …
I run a lot of Raspberry Pi devices at home. My fully open sourced 3D printer, Prusa i3 Mk2, is managed via Raspberry Pi, a couple of security cameras powered by Raspberry Pi, an irrigation system, and more. However, it becomes tricky to access these devices when I’m not at home, or on the local network. …
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Image: iStockphoto/mangpor_2004 More about Innovation The Internet of Things (IoT) industry is booming—in 2017, the number of connected devices in use worldwide will reach 8.4 billion, outnumbering people, according to a recent Gartner report. By 2020, more than 20.8 billion IoT devices will be in use, Gartner predicts. As connected homes, cars, and offices become …
How do you get an IoT project off the ground? Internet of Things projects can be highly difficult to move out of the pilot stage. A project might look stellar as a concept proof, but when it comes to repeating that success throughout the enterprise, classic IoT challenges such as interoperability, security and data integration …
“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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“The most valuable commodity I know of is information.” That line, spoken by Gordon Gekko in the 1987 film classic, “Wall Street,” is even more relevant today when considering business opportunities created by the Internet of Things (“IoT”). While the legal and business considerations surrounding IoT have been largely focused on the data captured by …
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