Google’s AI shifts from the next platform to its next products
Last October, when Google Home was announced, Google CEO Sundar Pichai christened AI as the next platform. Yesterday, AI became a Google product that could become as transformative and as large and...
View ArticleTop 20 AI experts you should follow on Twitter
As artificial intelligence (AI) increases in importance in new technology and applications, several people have risen to the top of the field—achieving expert-level status and providing insight into...
View ArticleResearchers find gaps in IoT security
Researchers from the University of Michigan and Stony Brook University published a paper explaining a novel approach to IoT security challenges (pdf). The researchers pose the question: “What are the...
View ArticleConsumer IoT could outpace industrial IoT
Both Gartner and Tech Insider agree, the Internet of Things (IoT) will be a major tech category, predicting 20.4 billion units and 23.9 billion devices, respectively, by 2020.They disagree, however,...
View ArticleNetwork engineering is key to meeting IoT expectations
The devil is in the details – best describes IoT. Computing will vanish says Walt Mossberg. And the public and data scientists gush with optimism at the thought of 20 billion to 50 billion connected...
View ArticleFog computing may be IoT’s computational model
Fog computing and fog networking could fill the latency and range gap in the internet of things (IoT.) For the last couple of years, researchers have been reporting on developments in fog’s role in...
View ArticleThe inextricable link between IoT and machine learning
I met with a team of Microsoft AI researchers recently to discuss original adaptations of Resnet 50, a version of the convolutional network Microsoft used to win the Imagenet 2015 image recognition...
View ArticleCreating a wireless smart infrastructure: 4 expert recommendations
The mobile internet was a simpler infrastructure to design than the one that will be needed for the smart city, smart grid, smart health and smart transportation. Smartphones are homogeneous with...
View ArticleSearching for ground truth in IoT
I’ve been reading and writing daily about the Internet of Things (IoT) for about a month, and I have not found ground truth. I’m not new to the field, but now focused on IoT I am trying to find a...
View ArticleMIT IoT and wearable project foretells the future of industrial safety
The IoT in the commercial sector might better be called the Internet of Prototypes, the IoP.Few of the components for building the ubiquitous IoT that the future holds are available today. The best...
View ArticleWill IoT party like 1999?
After I read Brian Bailey’s IoT semiconductor design article, IoT Myth Busting, I thought of Prince’s song 1999, in particular, the line: “So tonight I'm gonna party like it's nineteen ninety-nine.”...
View ArticleBluetooth Mesh networks: Is a standards body right for IoT innovation?
Earlier this week, the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) announced the Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) standards have been extended to include mesh network features. It is clear that the Internet of...
View ArticleLoRaWAN key to building full-stack production IoT networks
Outside of the consumer market, real examples of the Internet of Things (IoT) often disappoint because in the end, they are limited by one or more of the IoT’s constraints: tens of billions of...
View ArticleThe IoT needs simulation to grow
Without simulation, complex systems would fail. Satellites would not reach an accurate orbit, semiconductor circuits would not function, and bridges would not carry the load. Businesses and...
View ArticleIoT hype cycle antidote: Sitting with the engineers
Google’s former HR chief, Jonathan Rosenberg recounts in his book How Google Works a story about CEO Larry Page’s response to an MBA employee’s PowerPoint product plan. Page told the MBA, “Go sit with...
View ArticleHow to improve IoT security
The tsunami-sized trend to add intelligence with sensors and actuators and to connect devices, equipment and appliances to the internet poses safety, security and privacy risks.Proof comes from a...
View ArticleThis Linux tool could improve the security of IoT devices
The first rule of building a secure and feature-rich ecosystem is software management — push and pull software updates and software discovery through an app store mechanism from a trusted source.In...
View ArticleThis Mirai malware vaccine could protect insecure IoT devices
The hazard of unsophisticated and poorly secured Internet of Things (IoT) devices came to the front last year with the Mirai DDoS attack that involved nearly a million bots. Many of these devices...
View ArticleUsing IoT to keep Mt. Washington hikers safe, predict weather
Weather on Mount Washington in New Hampshire can be biblical. On one occasion, I started an early-morning April ascent with fresh snow at the base. Mid-day we stripped to our base layer of clothing...
View ArticleIoT privacy: 30 ways to build a security culture
Much work still must be done before the industrial and municipal Internet of Things (IoT) becomes widely adopted outside of the circle of innovators. One field, privacy, well understood by the public...
View Article5 reasons why device makers cannot secure the IoT platform
If Akamai, Cisco and Google’s post-platform security and privacy machine learning security systems protecting the web and mobile platforms are indicative of the future, IoT device makers will only be...
View ArticleHow Microsoft’s self-soaring sailplane improves IoT, digital assistants
A machine learning project to build an autonomous sailplane that remains aloft on thermal currents is impressive enough. But the work conducted by Microsoft researchers Andrey Kolobov and Iain...
View ArticlePub/Sub model could connect IoT devices without carrier networks
Three characteristics of the Internet of Things (IoT) differentiate it from industrial automation. IoT devices are inexpensive. IoT devices can be ubiquitously connected everyplace and anyplace. IoT...
View ArticleWill machine learning save the enterprise server business?
Nvidia and server makers Dell EMC, HPE, IBM and Supermicro announced enterprise servers featuring Nvidia’s Tesla V100 GPU. The question is, can servers designed for machine learning stem the erosion...
View ArticleWhat the IoT industry can learn from Apple’s revival of the Mac
Update: In response to a post on Daring Fireball saying I had incorrectly stated things about the Mac, I have written a reply — Rebuttal to Daring Fireball: FreeBSD, Intel and Microsoft did save the...
View ArticleHow to build low-cost IoT sensor networks
Sensor Fusion for Public Space Utilization Monitoring in a Smart City (pdf) is simply the best read for IoT product designers, developers and implementers. It steps through designing a system to...
View ArticleHow the internet of sound eliminates billions of IoT sensors
The Internet of Thing’s dirty little secret is the cost of deployment. For example, adding a low-cost motion sensor and radio to a traffic light to count passing vehicles before it leaves the factory...
View ArticleRebuttal to Daring Fireball: FreeBSD, Intel and Microsoft did save the Mac
The point of my blog post, "What the IoT industry can learn from Apple’s revival of the Mac," was to use Apple’s pivot to the Intel platform and compliance with the Open Group’s Unix standards as an...
View ArticleHow Cisco drives its industrial IoT business forward
Industrial Internet of Things (IoT) does not have the explosive growth of the consumer internet. It’s a nitty-gritty, complicated, and sometimes downright boring business. It is too complex and...
View ArticleHow SAP is making the shift to industrial IoT
The view of the industrial Internet of Things (IoT) as billions of sensors connected into intelligent systems distracts from its true role: digital transformation. The gargantuan task and investment...
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