The UK based Global Cyber Alliance (GCA) has launched the Automated IoT Defence Ecosystem (AIDE), billed as a first-of-its-kind cyber security development platform for IoT products that will enable small businesses, manufacturers, service providers and individuals to identify vulnerabilities, mitigate risks and secure IoT devices. GCA says AIDE will automatically collect IoT attack data through honeypot […]
ETSI moves to standardise IoT for emergency comms
ETSI has taken its first steps towards developing standards for IoT applications in emergency communications, issuing a report that looks at how IoT can be used in all types of emergency situations, such as emergency calling, mission critical communications. It also envisages a new use case: automated emergency response, where IoT devices can act after […]
A blueprint for smart city networking
A US group comprising representatives from vendors and municipal organisation has produced a blueprint for smart city networking. The stated aim of the Municipal IoT Blueprint is “to provide state and local government leaders, technology practitioners and researchers, and industry partners with a practical overview of the Internet of Things and how it will affect government […]
5G Americas’ white paper puts the case for 5G’s IoT role
A new white paper from US cellular industry body 5G Americas stakes a claim for 5G to play a dominant role in providing connectivity for IoT devices and applications. It is the latest move by the 5G ecosystem to promote the technology’s role in IoT. Back in 2015 mobile operator executives surveyed by Heavy Reading […]
Gartner finds industrial IoT platform market leaderless
Gartner has issued its Magic Quadrant for industrial IoT (IIoT) platforms. It puts PTC with its Thingworx platform and Software AG’s Cumulocity ahead of the pack in the ‘visionaries’ quadrant, followed by Hitachi’s Lumada platform, but none of offerings assessed made it into the leaders or the challengers quadrants. Gartner defines an in IIoT platform […]
NIST report offers advice on IoT security
The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released a report outlining the risks posed by IoT devices and how to mitigate them. The document, Considerations for Managing Internet of Things (IoT) Cybersecurity and Privacy Risks (NISTIR 8228), is the first in a planned series NIST is developing to help IoT users protect […]
Smart home device maker’s massive security fail revealed
VPN review site, vpnMentor has discovered that China-based smart home IoT device manufacturer Orvibo had an openly accessible database containing detailed information on over one million customers. In a blog post vpnMentor said the database includes over two billion logs that “record everything from usernames, email addresses, and passwords, to precise locations” from users around […]
Research project aims to use installed LED lights for IoT comms I
Imdea Networks Institute, a data networks research organisation based in Madrid has launched a research project ENLIGHT’EM aimed at using the light from LED lights to support data communications for IoT. ENLIGHT’EM’s principal investigator Dr Domenico Giustiniano, says the project aims to turn very LED bulb into a transceiver “to create truly sustainable and ubiquitous networks where […]
WEF to head G20’s smart city initiative
The World Economic Forum has been appointed by the G20 to lead its Global Smart Cities Alliance on Technology and Governance, a global effort to establish universal norms and guidelines for implementation of smart city technology. WEF said the alliance would unite municipal, regional and national governments, private-sector partners and cities’ residents around a shared […]
IIC offers tool to assess industrial IoT maturity
The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) has released a web-based tool to enable users to better understand their enterprise IIoT maturity. It says its IIoT Maturity Assessment helps organisations become best-practice adopters of IIoT by guiding business managers through a range of questions about the adoption, usage and governance of IIoT within their organisations. The co-chair of […]
