Internet of Things

To secure the IoT, smart homes, medical devices and drones, Infineon’s Optiga Trust X supports a high-speed I²C communication interface up to 1MHz. Typical current consumption is 20mA, which drops to 70µA in sleep mode.  The elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) NIST P256, AES128 and SHA-256 has built-in tamper-proof non volatile memory to enhance system security. The Optiga Trust X is ...

Bulgin’s 4000 series of environmentally sealed circular connectors are now available in a ‘smart’ variant from RS Components. They include a programmable memory for data monitoring and IoT applications. Programmability and over the air updates are via an integrated EEPROM. The connector is not designed to read data output from a sensor, only to identify issues such as an incorrect sensor ...

SolidRun has teamed up with wireless module firm U-blox to create gateways and single board computers for IoT. They include Wi-Fi and Bluetooth personal area networking, Wirepas Mesh, cellular connectivity, as well as USB and a 10/100/1000 wired Ethernet. Processing comes from an NXP i.MX6 Arm Cortex-A9 processor, with either single, dual or quad-cores, working with up to 2Gbyte of ...

Fraunhofer IZM develops a PCB-based IoT radar that can be bent into shape to customise its beam.

Microchip's development board combines a PIC microcontroller, a secure element IC and certified Wi-Fi network controller

Interested in the security of IoT networks? There's a whitepaper from Mouser, now available on the site, which addresses this topic.

At Embedded World 2019, we caught up with Milan Yudkovich, founder of IoT specialist SensiEDGE, as part of our promotional coverage for the event. He discusses how the company’s devices make it easier and faster for developers and startups to design their IoT applications. Thank you to Milan for his time. Read all our Embedded World 2019 coverage » Video: ...

In October 2017, Arm introduced Platform Security Architecture (PSA), a set of hardware, firmware specifications, analysis models an open source firmware reference implementation for a scalable, secure IoT framework. The three initial pillars of analysis (threat and security analysis), architecture specifications for firmware and hardware and an open source implementation, are now joined by a fourth element, PSA Certified for ...

Lights are the most prevalent electrical components in any commercial building, and that makes them the most logical devices for smart building sensors, according to Russ Sharer, vice president of global marketing and business development at Fulham. “In new construction you can plan to use standalone smart building control sensors, but only 8% of commercial space is new construction. However, ...

IoT products and services that have no effective security create business risks which need to be addressed now, warns Justin Lowe. The IoT is proliferating, with around 66% of organisations currently using IoT and an install base of around 17 billion devices. Analyst company Gartner believes spending is due to increase from an estimated $1.5bn in 2018 to over $3bn ...