Internet of Things

Eurotech is offering IoT designers a development kit that bundles all the hardware and software needed to prototype as sensor-based IoT device with data support in the cloud. The ECDK 4001 development kit is intended to allow designers to model specific IoT applications based on a template that includes the various elements typical of an industrial IoT chain – gateway, PLC, devices, protocols, cloud services. The ...

Analog Devices has moved into the market for real-time Ethernet with the acquisition of US-based firm Innovasic, which has developed interface chips for deterministic Ethernet. Seen as a high speed alternative to the serial fieldbus networking protocol in  factory automation, robotics and industrial IoT, real-time Ethernet is the focus of a new standards push for robust, synchronised networks. The IEEE has recognised that ...

Microchip says it is now selling an RF transceiver supporting the Sigfox wide area wireless protocol being used for IoT networks. This is the FCC-certified ATA8520E transceiver with an integrated AVR micro controller. A FCC-certified development board is also available. Microchip is offering a Sigfox-certified ATA8520-EK as a standalone kit, or it can be bought as a kit combined with an Xplained PRO ...

A security flaw has been discovered in Schneider Electric’s Unity Pro software for managing and programming industrial controllers across the globe – and has been subsequently fixed. The flaw was found by secrity firm Indegy Labs, and would allow industrial control boxes overseen by Unity Pro to be disrupted. “The vulnerability in Unity Pro allows any user to remotely execute code ...

Renesas Electronics, Express Logic and IAR Systems are to collaborate on the development of a secure IoT platform based around ARM’s v8-M architecture. It will involve Express Logic’s ThreadX RTOS and IAR’s Embedded Workbench software development environment, both of which support ARM’s TrustZone security hardware within ARMv8-M. “These technologies will be a foundation for the next-generation Renesas Synergy Platform,” said ...

ARM TechCon which takes place in California this week (26-27 October) will major on design platforms for IoT networks and gateways. Key to this is the ARM open environment called mbed OS 5 which incorporates a real-time operating system (RTOS) in the core of the operating system. For example, IoT gateways modules from u-blox now make the most of mbed OS ...

Last weeks huge internet attack on internet firm Dyn, said to have affected Twitter, Spotify and PayPal amongst other big names, was at least in part launched from IoT security cameras that continue to be a threat, according to security specialist Brian Krebs. Update: XiongMai (below) has is to recall the cameras. See also: Where is the kite mark for safe IoT. The ...

Linear Technology is to show two third-party IoT network product ranges at Electronica in Munich, based on its SmartMesh radios.

Wireless light switch firm EnOcean has introduced a Bluetooth LE version of its battery-free wireless light switch technology.

Silicon IP developer Ceva has come up with a slimline processor core that is optimised for running mobile baseband processing in  low data rate industrial and consumer loT devices. The CEVA-X1 IoT processor deploys a single-core processor plus DSP architecture which has been designed for implementing the latest LTE Cat-M1 (formerly eMTC) and Cat-NB1 (formerly NB-IoT) standards as well as future FeMTC and 5G mobile designs. The ...