Internet of Things

One of the more interesting things to come from my trip to Electronica, Europe’s largest electronics trade fair, in Munich last week was the premature death of IoT. This is not to say that semiconductor suppliers are not excited by the potential of connecting up sensors in wireless networks which can be interrogated over the internet using an iPad. The ...

STMicroelectronics announced at an award ceremony during Electronica the two winning designs from the ST IoT Design Challenge.

Broadcom has pulled out of the Open Interconnect Consortium (OIC) set up by Intel as a rival to Qualcomm’s AllSeen Alliance using Qualcomm’s AllJoyn technology.

Heriot Watt University is highlighting research by its Energy Academy into smart sensors that predict homeowners’ movements and living patterns. The idea is that this will help to reduce fuel bills. The research is being led by Dr Edward Owens and involves using multiple sensors to predict when a home or building is occupied. An algorithm is then used to ...

ARM has announced software and a free OS to enable IoT products.

TSMC has put together a package of processes aimed at the ultra-low power requirements of IoT and wearables.

Internet of things (IoT) technology will inevitably be hacked at some point in the future and suppliers of components, systems and software must develop technologies for regaining control of hacked systems.

Silicon Labs has produced development kits to accelerate the design of environmental and biometric sensing applications for a wide range of IoT products.

Telecoms operators need to wise up to the business opportunity the internet of things (IoT) offers for data services, says market analyst Ovum. The latest forecast from the telecoms analyst projects that the cellular M2M market will bring in a total of $252bn for the 2015–19 period, but operators need to invest in their existing capabilities to take advantage of ...

Wi-Fi looks as if it can become the most widely used wireless networking standard. Its adoption in markets outside of its original computer networking application is reminiscent of Ethernet, the now ubiquitous networking standard.