Advantech Enters Strategic Alliances with Intel and Wind River for IoT Applications, Part 1: Content of the IoT

Posted by Jeremy Miller | Date: March 24, 2014

Advantech product engineer Ken Chang recently gave an enlightening presentation entitled UTX-3115 for Internet of Things (IoT) Applications, available here. It details not only the design philosophy behind Advantech’s UTX-3115, but also how Advantech’s strategic alliance with Intel and Wind River made possible the delivery of a comprehensive IoT-gateway solution within the compact footprint of…

Making The Transition From Human-To-Human To Machine-To-Machine With The ADAM-2000

Posted by Jeremy Miller | Date: February 24, 2014

In its infancy, the Internet provided most users a new means of human-to-human communication. If I visited your company’s website, it was to see and read graphical and textual information about your company and its products, and to identify an email address or phone number by which to contact you. Next came e-commerce, or human-to-machine…

Securing the Internet of Things

Posted by Jeremy Miller | Date: February 17, 2014

I wrote recently about the consumer-IoT’s “basket of remotes” problem, the realization that the growing divergence of a “hodge-podge of ad hoc solutions managed through fragmented systems” risks needlessly complicating consumer’s already busy lives. Fortunately, industrial and commercial sources such as Advantech are already well ahead of their consumer counterparts in delivering comprehensive integrated IoT…

Solving the IoT “Basket of Remotes” Problem

Posted by Jeremy Miller | Date: February 3, 2014

My neighbor called from work recently to ask, first, if I was home and, if so, would I check to see if she’d left her curling iron plugged in. She’s a nurse who works a night shift, and the “would you check my …” call has become such a recurring theme that she long ago…

Zebra Technologies Zatar: IoT Made Simple

Posted by RAD DeRose | Date: January 22, 2014

In October 2013, Zebra Technologies announced Zatar, an open-platform, plug-and-play, cloud-based solution to connect and control your Internet of Things devices, wherever those devices might be. Zatar’s simple, intuitive interface also allows collaboration with all members of your extended team to, as Zebra puts it, “Share data. Take action.” Plus, the Zatar interface is optimized…

The Internet of Things, Cloud Computing, and Carwashes

Posted by Jeremy Miller | Date: December 16, 2013

Searching Google for “Internet of Things” produces 2,090,000,000 results. The Internet is a very big place, but 2.09-billion results is a lot, even from a pool as large as the Internet. By comparison, “Justin Bieber” yields only 793-million results and “Cloud Computing” just 567-million. Yet for many among us, IoT remains a frustratingly vague concept…

Good Advice from Zebra for Securing IoT-Connected Card Printers

Posted by RAD DeRose | Date: November 6, 2013

With more than 10 billion devices now connected to the Internet – up from a mere 200 million in the year 2000 – projected to exceed 50 billion “things” by 2020 as the Internet of Things transitions to the “Internet of Everything,” cyber-security challenges are increasing exponentially. For those who commit fully, the benefits of the…