THE INTERNET OF Things means different things to different people. To vendors, it’s the latest in a slew of large-scale trends to affect their enterprise customers, and the latest marketing bandwagon they have to consider. To enterprise organizations, it’s still a jumble of technical standards, conflicting opinions and big potential. For developers, it’s a big opportunity to put together the right mix of tools and technologies, and probably something they are already doing under another name. Understanding how these technologies work together on a technical level is becoming important, and will provide more opportunities to use software design as part of the overall business. See more at: wired.com
UX design is a unique mix of art, craft, and science. Designing the interaction between a human and software requires intuition, attention to detail, and an analytic approach that facilitates both gathering and interpreting data. Until recently, app designers and developers only had to consider what’s happening on the screen of a device. With the advent of beacon technology, contextual computing, and the Internet of Things, it’s becoming much more complex. This post only scratches the surface of how location-based services will impact interaction design. Beacons are still a fresh technology and Internet of Things is in early stages of mainstream adoption. New best practices and principles of UX design for the physical spaces and contextual computing will emerge and become more visible as projects and apps go live. We’re eager to see ideas and rules we wouldn’t have thought about otherwise. So if you have any in the works or simply on your mind, share them with us! We’re waiting for your comments and will be happy to answer them. See more at: uxmag.com
The saying “Everything old is new again” applies in spades to the Internet of Things (IoT), as the IoT is really just the evolution of automation systems we’ve been using for decades. But there is a key difference in today’s IoT applications, one that presents a significant challenge to service providers seeking to profit from IoT-related applications and services: the scale of their systems. IoT technology dates back at least to SCADA systems used in industrial automation applications for decades to control machines on the factory floor. It then expanded to point-of-sale technology used in retail stores as well as fleet tracking systems used in transportation. All of these systems involve relatively small computers that communicate among one another with no human intervention, while producing valuable information that humans ultimately consume. That’s exactly what today’s IoT technology involves, but on a much broader scale. Now the “compute” technology can be as simple as a sensor that does nothing more than track some variable – temperature, humidity, motion or what have you – and communicate it to some central computer. See more at: sevone.com
Internet of Things (IoT) is a paradigm that considers pervasive presence in the environment of a variety of things/objects that through wireless and wired connections and unique addressing schemes are able to interact with each other and cooperate with other things/objects to create new applications/services and reach common goals. The Internet of Things applications drive the intelligence to the edge of the system by sensing/actuating the environment using intelligent sensors/actuators (analog and digital) that are communicating using IP to improve performance and efficiency by collecting and processing the information and coupling massive sensing and control with big data and analytics to accomplish advanced levels of optimization and efficiency. The IoT makes use of synergies that are generated by the convergence of consumer, business and industrial internet consumer, business and industrial internet. The convergence creates the open, global network connecting people, information, and things. This convergence leverages the cloud/fog to connect intelligent things that sense and transmit a broad array of data, helping creating services that would not be obvious without this level of connectivity and analytical intelligence. .ien.eu
Experiencing The Real Internet of Things: Company to Provide Live Demonstrations of Award-winning ZANO Autonomous Drone, Tools and Solutions to Accelerate IoT Deployments. Lantronix, Inc. (NASDAQ: LTRX), a leading global provider of smart IoT (Internet of Things) connectivity solutions, today announced it will be providing live demonstrations of its xPico® Wi-Fi® and PremierWave® product families, its support for Python scripting language, and more at the Embedded World 2015 show to be held from February 24-26, 2015 in Nürnberg, Germany. Lantronix' booth will be located in Hall 5, Booth 451 at the M2M Pavilion in Nürnberg Exhibition Centre. The company will also showcase several Lantronix IoT-enabled product applications, including the award-winning xPico Wi-Fi-powered Torquing ZANO autonomous drone and a PremierWave EN-powered humanoid robot. Additionally, Lantronix will demonstrate factory provisioning of the xPico Wi-Fi module in a manufacturing floor setting, as well as the integration into a cloud-based device management platform. See more at: lantronix.com
The Internet of Things (IoT) is an all-encompassing trend that affects all areas of our lives. Especially for a strong economy like Germany, the IoT offers major business opportunities and a historic opportunity to improve its competitiveness as an industrial location. Around the world, engineers are developing solutions for the IoT. At present developments are very much driven by technology. But in an area like this, technological know-how and excellent work alone are not enough. We have found that the right systemic understanding is decisive for the IoT. When developing connected solutions, therefore, Bosch takes three levels into consideration: the first is connected things, which use sensors to collect data and in this way help create a virtual image of the real world. The second is secure software platforms that connect these things with the internet and with each other, that analyze data, and that make new services possible. The third is the applications and services that are developed on the software platforms and create value-added for customers See more at.blog.bosch-si.com
The Internet of Things (IoT) is beginning to grow significantly, as consumers, businesses, and governments recognize the benefit of connecting inert devices to the internet. In an all-new report from BI Intelligence, we examine what is currently driving growth in the Internet of Things and how various sectors of the economy will embrace IoT innovations. The IoT will result in $1.7 trillion in value added to the global economy in 2019. The main benefit of growth in the IoT will be increased efficiency and lower costs. The IoT lacks a common set of standards and technologies that would allow for compatibility and ease-of-use. See more at : businessinsider.com
