IoT Is Good News For MCU Market |Revealed

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">According to market watcher IHS,the interest in connected cars, wearable electronics and building automation means these IoT applications are expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 11% over the next five years.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz4hNPuBCAODzWP-n8izq1Vnl1N3MYiqOr6xZqSLfQWuVI1_PumOj3GmDJqO4PMNALj0g_yecRQezDFKEaSLuEIA4un6zdyd-cQP-8C5RCwPlpO-V8WdYunjf_74mPNbSae_HRkGGNBbOE/s1600/Freescale-Kinetis.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="252" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz4hNPuBCAODzWP-n8izq1Vnl1N3MYiqOr6xZqSLfQWuVI1_PumOj3GmDJqO4PMNALj0g_yecRQezDFKEaSLuEIA4un6zdyd-cQP-8C5RCwPlpO-V8WdYunjf_74mPNbSae_HRkGGNBbOE/s400/Freescale-Kinetis.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This is significantly more than the MCU market in general which is expected to grow at a CAGR of just 4% through 2019.</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What some still consider to be only hype surrounding emerging IoT trends has already begun disrupting the MCU market.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The IoT trend has a strong relationship with the MCU market, as the small nodes used for connectivity, sensor hubs to collect and store data are primarily based on MCU platforms.</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The MCU market related to IoT was worth $1.7bn in 2014 and expected to reach $2.8bn in 2019.</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Also the industry’s challenge is to quantify this new opportunity, since IoT is a conceptual trend, not a device, application or even a new feature.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">According to IHS, those semiconductor suppliers adopting loT-focused strategies are: Atmel, Broadcom, Cisco Systems, Freescale Semiconductor, Infineon Technologies, Intel, Microchip Technologies, NXP, Qualcomm, Renesas Electronics and Texas Instruments.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> </div>

IoT Is Good News For MCU Market |Revealed

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IoT Platform Integrated with Google Cloud Services |Revealed

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">An US firm Sierra has introduced an IoT (internet of things) hardware platform which will connect with mobile services around the world.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg72RlQuFksYMU-4G-qmdhCxon_6Ml47d9qx_NcAwiPjZCifZ28jemJqm9YSf_lodidwza6Q4FH_LmXXr_rltXW20jJWSoxHaLHKSNCdJrLt5GTeiD3sVzrSvssASqPOfI35asohutqy1w0/s1600/Cloud_LS-WP-HL_293x262.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg72RlQuFksYMU-4G-qmdhCxon_6Ml47d9qx_NcAwiPjZCifZ28jemJqm9YSf_lodidwza6Q4FH_LmXXr_rltXW20jJWSoxHaLHKSNCdJrLt5GTeiD3sVzrSvssASqPOfI35asohutqy1w0/s400/Cloud_LS-WP-HL_293x262.png" width="400" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">With connection to Google cloud services for collecting data from connected devices, the hardware, dubbed the IoT Acceleration Platform, is unusual because it will provide mobile connections with Sierra Wireless and third-party network operator SIMs.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The aim of Sierra is to try to reduce the complexity in building and deploying Internet of Things connectivity solutions and to get their products and services to market quickly for their customers.</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The hardware platform comes pre-connected to the Google Cloud Platform which allows it to be used for data collection with data analytics or full IoT applications.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sierra Wireless will demonstrate the integration of Google analytics tools with the IoT Acceleration Platform at CTIA Super Mobility Week, September 9 to 11 in Las Vegas.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> </div>

IoT Platform Integrated with Google Cloud Services |Revealed

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An US firm Sierra has introduced an IoT (internet of things) hardware platform which will connect with mobile services around the world. With connection to Google cloud services for collecting data f…

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A Linux based board adds modules for prototyping |Revealed

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">An US company has created a modular embedded Linux board which it hopes will be used across the entire product development cycle from evaluation, development, prototyping to finish product.</span><br /> <span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrsKSqABiOgLerZrdKeapKXq9FBz_n-gCTTgwwC5qbs4vJNMRI8TVSiY9cA3dlJrWBbdsMv_5o82vwTEoC2IelECr41MDmOrfHB8LfnuxIgGVBkNHw77XHk53MHaw8KwvaFXNT67BUqxbg/s1600/hio-emb.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="340" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrsKSqABiOgLerZrdKeapKXq9FBz_n-gCTTgwwC5qbs4vJNMRI8TVSiY9cA3dlJrWBbdsMv_5o82vwTEoC2IelECr41MDmOrfHB8LfnuxIgGVBkNHw77XHk53MHaw8KwvaFXNT67BUqxbg/s640/hio-emb.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #666666; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; text-align: start;">Habey has designed the Linux board around a Freescale i.MX6 processor based on ARM Cortex-A9 architecture</span></td></tr> </tbody></table> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Habey has designed the Linux board around a Freescale i.MX6 processor based on ARM Cortex-A9 architecture. It runs an open source embedded Linux distribution with Yocto Project.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The industrial computer firm describes the HIO-EMB-1200 as a single-board computer with its own power input, on-board RAM, flash storage, HDMI, digital audio, USB ports and SD expansion.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The modular design gives eight 50-pin female headers on the top and bottom of the board for expansion modules.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Along with the base board, the company has developed a starter kit for power over Ethernet designs, and a development kit with LCD touch panel.</span></div> </div>

A Linux based board adds modules for prototyping |Revealed

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An US company has created a modular embedded Linux board which it hopes will be used across the entire product development cycle from evaluation, development, prototyping to finish product. Habey has…

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How will consumers setup IoT security? |Revealed

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Reserachers from University of Southampton have studied ways to ease the set-up of IoT devices in the home. But the issue is that to join a wireless network, security parameters have to be accurately entered into the IoT device, which may have almost no user interface.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYRunlFLo4cPmwdYHNtobjo7FuMszH_Tngij98E7fcUVD3UJgi4YcMkpVH_QiiJcjVbWxcd8NTAe0vrDZM-Id54l59i8kWsAm37-rTN9Qxl6DGB7Cc2q8mlQHVcdisLbxuqLewls5Hbhv4/s1600/16sep15-Soton-IoT-security-596.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="328" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYRunlFLo4cPmwdYHNtobjo7FuMszH_Tngij98E7fcUVD3UJgi4YcMkpVH_QiiJcjVbWxcd8NTAe0vrDZM-Id54l59i8kWsAm37-rTN9Qxl6DGB7Cc2q8mlQHVcdisLbxuqLewls5Hbhv4/s400/16sep15-Soton-IoT-security-596.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #666666; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; text-align: start;">Research IoT node that can receive security parameters from a phone is multiple ways </span></td></tr> </tbody></table> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">IoT objects can be attacked and possibly hijacked, putting our privacy, data and safety in threat. It is believed that not enough attention has been placed on how to make the IoT easy to use and to configure its security.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Four versions of basic techniques were tried, all using a touch screen phone as an interface to enter a password, which the phone will send to the IoT device:</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <ul> <li><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Holding the phone’s screen against the IoT device and transferring the parameters to a photo cell by flashing the phone screen.</span></li> <li><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Use of a USB cable for parameters transfer between the phone and IoT device</span></li> <li><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Using a 3.5mm audio jack cable between the phone's headphone socket and the IoT device</span></li> <li><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Using the phone to create a temporary ad-hoc Wi-Fi network which the IoT joins automatically.</span></li> </ul> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">According to the University of Southampton, the two methods were found to be noticeably more useful than others- the audio cable and the Wi-Fi-only interactions.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> </div>

How will consumers setup IoT security? |Revealed

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The Reserachers from University of Southampton have studied ways to ease the set-up of IoT devices in the home. But the issue is that to join a wireless network, security parameters have to be accura…

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IBM, ARM expand IoT collaboration| Revealed

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">IBM has announced an expansion of its IoT platform called IBM IoT Foundation through a collaboration with ARM mbed-enabled devices connecting to cloud and analytics services.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This fusion of IBM with ARM will allow data from devices such as industrial appliances, weather sensors and wearable monitoring devices to be gathered, analyzed and acted upon accordingly.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDYc80zCx3a3Bz8w4l6xQ0FJ6CNCcO5u7XuqT2JzS5orQ4zWl9Ihlb2zEi47QGwRl94unCHEHts8h-ckngaso2e8IWzNoMGPP5gTT0O4PJHTL4YKbRhbv6OpGOpbPEoVeF3Xfw3gVAzsU8/s1600/Internetofthings_web.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDYc80zCx3a3Bz8w4l6xQ0FJ6CNCcO5u7XuqT2JzS5orQ4zWl9Ihlb2zEi47QGwRl94unCHEHts8h-ckngaso2e8IWzNoMGPP5gTT0O4PJHTL4YKbRhbv6OpGOpbPEoVeF3Xfw3gVAzsU8/s320/Internetofthings_web.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">IBM also announced the first in a series of IBM Cloud-based, industry-specific IoT services with IoT for Electronics. The service will enable electronics manufacturers to gather data from the deployed sensors that can be combined with other data for real-time analysis.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">IoT Foundation helps to makes it simple to derive value from Internet of Things (IoT) devices.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It includes:</span></div> <br /> <ul style="text-align: left;"> <li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Analytics tools capable of dealing with large quantities of fast-moving data.</span></li> <li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Access to IBM Bluemix, IBM’s Platform-as-a-Service, that is capable of handling the immense flow of data and provide anytime access for decision makers.</span></li> <li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Security systems capable of helping organizations protect IoT data as rigorously as they do their own confidential financial, IP and strategy information.</span></li> </ul> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The integration between IBM and ARM will allow devices powered by ARM mbed-enabled chips to automatically register with the IBM IoT Foundation platform and connect with services of IBM Analytics. This unifies the ARM mbed IoT Device Platform and the IBM IoT Foundation at the point where information gathered from the sensors in any connected device is transferred to the cloud for analysis.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The IoT technology enables the delivery of actionable events to control equipment or provide users with alerts or other information. For example, the triggering of an alarm message on a washing machine to ask the owner to confirm a breakdown engineer appointment if a fault is detected.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> </div>

IBM, ARM expand IoT collaboration| Revealed

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IBM has announced an expansion of its IoT platform called IBM IoT Foundation through a collaboration with ARM mbed-enabled devices connecting to cloud and analytics services. This fusion of IBM with …

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