Machina Research, which claims to be the world’s leading provider of strategic market intelligence on IoT, has joined the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC), the industry association formed to accelerate the growth of the Industrial Internet The IIC (www.iiconsortium.org) was founded by AT&T, Cisco, General Electric, IBM and Intel in March 2014 and how has a […]
ARM buys IoT security company Offspark
Chipmaker ARM says it has “signalled the importance of security in IoT” by acquiring IoT security software company, Offspark. The Dutch company specialises in IoT communications security and its PolarSSL technology is already deployed in a wide variety of devices including sensor modules, communication modules and smartphones. ARM says that, because security is a requirement […]
oneM2M releases first global standards
oneM2M, the global standards initiative for M2M and the IoT, has issued Release 1 of its global standards, saying: “The era of widespread deployment of M2M technology and the foundation for IoT [has] advanced significantly.” oneM2M’s Release 1 is a set of 10 specifications, all publicly available from oneM2M’s website (www.onem2m.org/release1), covering requirements, architecture, API […]
Cisco expands industrial IoT product set
Cisco has unveiled a number of new products, the Cisco Industrial Operations Kit and the Cisco Industrial Ethernet 4000 (IE 4000) Series Switches that it says will “expand industrial use cases for the Internet of Things (IoT) [buy giving] customers new networking options to support the growth of IoT applications and unlock the business value […]
Here comes the Chief IoT Officer
An article on the VentureBeat web site argues that companies need a senior-level champion to help accelerate the adoption of “game-changing” IoT technologies. “The prerequisites to IoT success are centralised ownership, cross-departmental collaboration, and agility. This is why the chief IoT officer is so crucial,” the author – Syed Hoda, CMO of IoT analytics company, […]
Verizon portal to help secure devices in IoT deployments
US telco Verizon has launched an enterprise portal giving access to its Managed Certificate Services platform that offers digital certificate creation and management capabilities for large-scale IoT deployments in the tens of millions. It is available in the US, Europe and Asia-Pacific. Verizon sys that its Managed Certificate Services (MCS) platform is specifically designed to […]
IoT heading into a regulatory minefield
An opinion piece on the Rethink Internet of Things web site argues that the emergence of the IoT will create a diverse and fragmented ecosystem that will be unwelcome to companies hoping to benefit from a swift progress towards the world of 50 billion connected devices, or those which could build a business around the […]
Ericsson envisages Internet of really big things: ships
Ericsson argues that the maritime industry lags behind other transport industries in its use of information and communications technology, despite the fact that ships carried an estimated total of 9.6 billion tons of cargo in 2013 – around 80 percent of global trade by volume and over 70 percent of global trade by value, and […]
