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Author: Greg Winn

With demanding use cases from industries like many farmers, resource companies, environmental agencies, governments, defense agencies and enterprises with remote operations, they have the need for device communication that does not fit the "standard." This is because they often need small amounts of data from tens of thousands of sensors spread across the world. It's not cost useful to have a connection point at each...

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To help software developers build and develop new hardware and make them play nice with each other Google has launched a platform called "Android Things." Android Things lets you build smart, connected devices for a wide variety of consumer, retail, and industrial applications. This new platform allows you to build using the existing knowledge you have with Android development. Allowing this knowledge to extend into devices like...

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The Internet of Things is playing a considerable role everywhere nowadays. We use it in our homes and business. For large organizations worried about security or enterprises that hold sensitive data about its customers, IoT might be too “new” and “insecure.” With the latest findings on Facebook and others its no wonder large organizations are taking extra precautions to protect user data. We also see...

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Microsoft has designed a family of Arm-based system-on-chips also know as SoC for Internet of Things devices that runs its own flavor of Linux and securely connects to an Azure-hosted backend. Microsoft has named its new SoC's "Azure Sphere," and its how they plan to get into the edge computing space. What does this mean for you? For device manufacturers, they now gain the ability to buy...

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As the Internet of Thing solutions become more complex, require more physical devices and need more throughput, it becomes very costly to move all of that data from the physical world to the cloud without incurring massive data transfer and messaging costs. Your collected information is critically important, and you need to mine and process it to get that promised ROI on this new IoT...

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