Internet of Things

The latest version of the ZigBee low power radio standard will include for the first time support for energy harvesting as defined by the EnOcean Alliance. ZigBee 3.0 will be an open specification that is intended to support energy harvesting wireless communications operating in the 2.4GHz for the first time. “We are very excited that the EnOcean Alliance is bringing its ...

Atmel has formed a partnership with French embedded systems design house and manufacturer Lacroix Electronics. The aim seems to be to design its microcontrollers and other ICs into embedded systems products for industrial applications and radio communications. As a result the semiconductor company will be able to offer complete system products and not only ICs. Many semiconductor suppliers are looking ...

The term “internet of things” dates back to 1999 when the British sensor researcher Kevin Ashton coined the catchphrase. Ashton’s bold predictions for the IoT were prescient, writes  Tyson Tuttle, CEO, Silicon Labs As the next evolution of computing, the IoT adds sensing, processing and connectivity to everyday “things” such as thermostats, locks, lights and sensor nodes. In recent years, ...

The IoT Design conference and exhibition took place in London last week, organised by Electronics Weekly. We hope everyone who attended found the event useful and informative Topics covered ranged from security, disruptive semiconductor technologies, and Bluetooth to over the air software upgrades, and the Visible Things evaluation and development platform. As a record of the event please see our ...

ARM will add deeply embedded in-the-chip security to its volume Cortex-M series microcontrollers next year. The next generation Cortex-M series microcontroller, likely to be the Cortex-M5, will incorporate a version of ARM’s TrustZone security technology, which creates highly secure processing elements within the chip. TrustZone creates two modes of operation, one for standard operating systems, the other for the trusted ...

The IoT will not be a single market but a 1,000 sub-markets all with their own individual technology and skills requirements. The IoT Design Conference and Exhibition in London this week was told that taking advantage of the enormous potential of the IoT market will not be straight‑forward. John Jones from Avnet Memec-Silica, said at the conference in London: “If ...

Internet-connected devices may never have absolute security when under attack by hackers. Software and hardware security specialist told the IoT Design Conference in London this week that retrofitting security to systems which may already have been hacked was not an option. Security must be designed from the very start of a new project and that means putting features such as ...

There could be more than a million new embedded IoT device developers in the next five years and they will be relying on new types of design tools which will be easier to use. This was the startling message from the IoT Design Conference and exhibition, which was organised by Electronics Weekly in London this week. With internet-connected devices creating ...

Kii, the Japanese cloud services provider used by internet of things (IoT) device developers, has come up with a way to facilitate the development of both business/industrial and consumer-focused IoT applications. A new Kii cloud software, dubbed the Thing Interaction Framework, focuses on common IoT use cases around sensor-cloud-app interactions (like sensor state registration/retrieval, trigger-driven command execution on devices). The result is ...

ARM-based single board computer firm Udoo has made a global sales push and signed distributor Mouser Electronics. Udoo has a range of computer modules which are compatible with the Arduino design environment. The distributor will stock six versions of the Udoo SBCs, including the newly launched Udoo NEO, which is an open-source computing module based on a Freescale i.MX 6 SoloX applications ...