Rich Nass, Embedded Computing Brand Director
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Who’s smarter: Hackers or defenders?
Hacking continues and breeches still occur, regardless of how much emphasis we put on security. Why is that? Is it simply that the hackers are smarter than the folks designing in the security? Does something really bad have to happen before we really make an effort? These are some of the questions I posed to [...]
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Embedded Insiders Podcast: In the summertime we’ve got dev kits on our minds
In the summertime when the weather is hot, the Embedded Insiders are indoors with development kits on their minds. Rich Nass and Brandon Lewis have been doing some hardware hacking of their own lately on a Raspberry Pi-based Z-Wave reference platform from Sigma Designs; a Bluetooth garage door monitoring application based on Nordic Semiconductor’s Thingy [...]
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Five Minutes With…Grant Erickson, Thread Group
Grant Erickson performs double duty, serving as the President of the Thread Group while also holding down a position as Principal Software Engineer at Nest Labs. As Grant pointed out to me, Thread is far more than a connectivity technology. In fact, if you’re designing a project headed for home automation, you need to give [...]
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LoRaWAN: coming to a city near you
Wouldn’t it be great to have an entire city connected by some central network that would allow for very simple tasks, like knowing whether a garbage bin is full, or a parking spot is taken, or if a water main is operating properly? Many cities are currently connected through WiFi, but that’s a pretty expensive [...]
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Five Minutes With…Lou Lutostanski, VP of IoT, Avnet
There’s no shortage of information when it comes to the Internet of Things. Conventional thinking says that the processor vendor would likely have the best information when you’re putting your design together, at least that’s what I would have thought. However, in this week’s Five Minutes with…discussion with Lou Lutostanski, VP of IoT, Avnet, I [...]
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Embedded Insiders Podcast – AWS Greengrass: Are OT Device Management Pastures Getting Greener?
As IT and OT players stake out their claims in the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) landscape, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and partner Ayla Networks are deploying a technology called AWS Greengrass that brings a subset of cloud security, management, and provisioning technology to the gateway level. The goal, of course, is to provide more [...]
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Analog Devices’ RadioVerse transceivers help migrate from 4G to 5G
The latest update to Analog Devices’ RadioVerse technology and design ecosystem simplifies and accelerates radio development for wireless carriers and telecommunications equipment makers as they transition their cellular base stations from 4G to 5G. The expanded RadioVerse portfolio features new radio transceiver hardware, software tools, and a design environment that enables smaller, lower power radios. [...]
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Maxim’s Himalaya Step-Down DC-DC Converters Push the Envelope for IIoT
It’s no secret that the industrial market is going increasingly digital, thanks to phenomena/standards like Industrial IoT (IIoT) and Industry 4.0. Thankfully, safety and reliability and improving simultaneously. One building block in that “new world order” comes form Maxim with the introduction of the MAX17572 and MAX17574 Himalaya family of synchronous step-down DC-DC converters. According [...]
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Five Minutes With…Bill Diotte, CEO, Mocana
Hacking continues and breeches still occur, regardless of how much emphasis we put on security. Why is that? Is it simply that the hackers are smarter than the folks designing in the security? That’s the question I asked Bill Diotte, the CEO of Mocana, one of the leaders in IoT security, in this week’s installment [...]
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Enea launches high performance CPE virtualization platform
Enea, a supplier of network software platforms and services, recently announced a product called NFV Access, which is a lightweight virtualization platform aimed at customer premise equipment (CPE) which is deployed at the edge of the network. Optimized for minimal footprint and high throughput for virtual network functions (VNFs) running in KVM and Docker containers, [...]
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Play in the IoT Sandbox
Lots of images come to mind when someone tells you to “go play in the sandbox.” Designing an IoT device is generally not on that list — until now. As shown in this demonstration, the Renesas IoT Sandbox lets developers easily create IoT applications using cloud services and real-time workflows – and you’re not locked [...]
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Is the EdgeX Foundry right for everyone?
Is there a need for IoT interoperability? I guess it depends on your perspective, but in most cases, the answer would be yes. If you’re a little guy, it’s obvious why it’s a good thing—your parts are compatible with lots of other systems. If you’re a big guy, it’s less obvious because you generally have [...]
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No excuses for not starting that IoT project
I’m amazed at just how easy it is to take an IoT-related product to market. Every time I turn around, there’s another announcement of a board or an operating system vendor or a combination of the two that provides most of the hardware and software that you need to make a full-blown product, or at [...]
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Five Minutes With…Matias Woloski, CTO/Co-Founder, Auth0
Authentication is paramount in an IoT platform. If the bad guys can get in, bad things are likely to happen. Auth0 has developed a platform to keep those bad guys out using a single sign-on. Matias Woloski, Co-Founder and CTO of Auth0, has been thinking about the best techniques to handle authentication before it was [...]
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Embedded Insiders Podcast: Is RISC-V risky business?
Researchers at Princeton recently found memory consistency errors in the RISC-V instruction set architecture (ISA), an extensible, open-source ISA spawned out of academia that is being adopted by industry in the development of everything from Internet of Things (IoT) microcontrollers (MCUs) to data center processors. While certain media outlets have sensationalized these findings, the Embedded [...]
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Five Minutes With…Peter Claydon, CEO, ContinuumBridge
Giving your “things” on the Internet an identity makes life much easier, especially if you’re not in the immediate vicinity of those things. For example, if a thermostat needs repair, and you have hundreds of thermostats on your network, it would be great to know where exactly that thermostat resides. This is a feature that’s [...]
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Embedded Insiders Podcast: Protecting Medical “Things”
This week the Embedded Insiders welcome David Kleidermacher, Chief Security Officer at BlackBerry and one of the leading security evangelists in the embedded and IoT technology markets. Of particular interest to Mr. Kleidermacher is medical device security, and in this episode the Insiders probe him with questions regarding the state of the medical device security [...]
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Five Minutes With…Josh Ferguson, Founder, Glow Labs
Glow Labs is an engineering services company that works with vendors in the IoT space, particularly in the connected home, retail, wearables, etc. Excuse me, but isn’t this space already crowded enough? They key for me, when I chatted with Josh Ferguson, the Founder of Glow Labs, in this week’s Five Minutes with…discussion was, how [...]
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Five Minutes With… Amnon Shenfeld, CEO, 3DSignals
Wouldn’t it be great if you could determine the health of one of your industrial devices simply by listening to it? Or better yet, have some sort of device that listens for you, and tells you when a machine needs service before it actually stops running or malfunctions? That’s exactly what’s been developed by 3DSignals. [...]
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Embedded Insiders Podcast: The Wide (Area) World of IIoT Networking
As connectivity becomes cheaper, data becomes more valuable. This is a paradox the Embedded Insiders Rich Nass and Brandon Lewis explore in the context of low-power, wide-area network (LPWAN) standards that have emerged to capture Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) connections in the face of sunsetting 2G infrastructure. Topics include: LPWAN Industrial IoT LTE 2G [...]
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Go device to cloud in just 25 kbytes
Of course good things come in small packages. We all know that. And that’s sort of the case with Express Logic’s X-Ware industrial-grade IoT device-to-cloud connectivity platform. It obviously doesn’t ship in a physical package, but it does boast very small size, potentially just 25 kbytes. It’s designed for fast, safe, secure, industrial-grade connectivity of [...]
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congatec develops low-profile motherboards for industrial connected devices
congatec’s conga-IC175 is a thin industrial-grade motherboard family that’s designed with Intel’s 7th Generation Core U (Kaby Lake) processor, aimed at connected applications, including those that are space-constrained, high-performance, and/or low-power. Besides all the enhancements of the new processor generation, they also offer comprehensive IoT support including a SIM card socket for 3G/4G or Narrow [...]
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Five Minutes With…Zachary Smith, CEO, Packet
Wouldn’t it be great to developing your embedded system without actually having any hardware in your hand (or on your desk)? That’s what you get when you work with Packet, a relatively new player in the embedded systems space. In this week’s Five Minutes with…segment, I spoke to Zachary Smith, CEO of Packet, and asked [...]
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Reference design lets you protect your IoT devices
To say that I had a lot of meetings at Embedded World last week would be an understatement of titanic proportions, so I’ll be doing reviews of some of the products and technologies that I came across. One interesting product hailed from Maxim. The company introduced its MaxRefDes155# DeepCover embedded security reference design, which lets [...]
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embedded world 2017: Embedded Insiders Show Recap
Wrapping up embedded world 2017 from their hotel bar, the Embedded Insiders, Rich Nass and Brandon Lewis of Embedded Computing Design, discuss some of the highlights they saw on Day 3 of the show. While safety and security remained a big theme, Nass also had the opportunity to discuss advances in GE’s Predix platform with [...]
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embedded world 2017: Imagination Technologies MIPS, PowerVR, Ensigma Drive Company into Automotive
At embedded world 2017, Rich Nass, Executive Vice President of Embedded Computing Design met up with Bryce Johnstone, Senior Manager of 3rd Party Relationships at Imagination Technologies. At the company’s booth in Hall 4, Booth 629, Bryce walks Rich through how Imagination’s MIPS, PowerVR, and Ensigma wireless technologies allow them to attack the networking, automotive, [...]
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embedded world 2017: Digi-Key Development Kits – Texas Instruments LaunchPad, BoosterPack
Rich Nass of Embedded Computing Design tours embedded development kits on display at embedded world 2017 at the Digi-Key booth (Hall 4A, Booth 631). In one meeting, Rich met with Mattias Lange, GM of Embedded Connectivity Solutions at Texas Instruments...
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embedded world 2017: Clarinox Uses Software Expertise as Foundation for Hardware Modules
At embedded world 2017 in Nuremberg, Germany, Rich Nass of Embedded Computing Design stopped by the Clarinox booth in Hall 4, Booth 121, where Gokhan Tanyeri, the company’s Founder, Director, and CTO, explains how their legacy in software stacks ...
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embedded world 2017: BeagleBone Blue Enables Entry-Level Engineers to Get Hooked on Robotics
Jason Kridner, Co-Founder and “god” of BeagleBoard.org, announces the BeagleBone Blue at embedded world 2017 (Hall 3A, Booth 219a), where he explains to Rich Nass, Brand Director of Embedded Computing Design, how the new development board i...
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Five Minutes With…Mark Lambert, VP, Parasoft
IoT design are flying out the door at a rate that could be termed as scary. The pressure on the engineering team to meet the current design windows is enormous. In this race to be first, something’s gotta give. Unfortunately, it’s the test phase that often gets the short shrift. What do we do about [...]
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The Embedded Insiders Podcast: IoT Evolution and next-gen engineers
IoT Evolution (East) concluded this week, with players from across the networking industry converging on Fort Lauderdale. A keynote by Mary Beth Hall, Director of IoT Platforms at Verizon included an anecdote about her son using the Internet of Things and not even realizing it, which piqued the curiosity of Rich Nass, Executive Vice President [...]
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The Embedded Insiders Podcast: Where have all the OS vendors gone?
On this week’s podcast with the Embedded Experts, Rich Nass and Brandon Lewis, we look at the semi-shakeup in the world of operating systems. There’s been some acquisition and there’s been some realignment. Security is in vogue and “real time” is, well, not necessarily real time. And then there’s open source. Let us know if [...]
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Five Minutes With…Gregor Bleimann, President, Connected Development
In this week’s Five Minutes with…segment, I put Gregor Bleimann, President of Connected Development on the hot seat. The reason being was that he’s brand new to the company, about three weeks in, so I wasn’t sure how he’d handles the questions. Connected Development, a spin-out from Multi-Tech Systems, is focusing on the Industrial IoT, [...]
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Embedded Insiders Podcast: CES 2017 Highlights
Embedded Computing Design editors Rich Nass and Brandon Lewis introduce the Embedded Tech Studio podcast, and review some of the highlights they experienced at CES 2017 in Las Vegas, NV. Topics covered in this episode: Amazon Echo/Voice Services Internet of Things Shortcomings Interoperability [soundcloud url="https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/302418009" params="auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true" width="100%" height="450" iframe="true" /] Return to slideshow.
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Intel reorganizes to fortify IoT and Autonomous Driving Groups
Two of the topics that come up in just about every meeting I hold, either with design engineers or suppliers, are IoT and automotive technologies. Apparently, it’s not just me. Intel is either sitting in on my meetings or they’re having the same thoughts (I assume it’s the latter). To that end, the company just [...]
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Five Minutes With…Alan Grau, President, Icon Labs
People and/or devices connected to the Internet are getting hacked. There’s no disputing that. Why does that happen? Sometimes the hackers are just too smart for us. But more often than not, it’s because we didn’t take advantage of the security measures that are available to us. Getting end users, businesses, machines, etc. to keep [...]
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ARM TechCon 2016: Modular gateway design from NXP
NXP is showing off its latest wares for the MCU group. It’s currently offering a modular gateway, designed in conjunction with a professional production company. And because it’s designed in a modular fashion, each of the components can be upgraded individually. It’s currently driven by an i.MX6 processor. But don’t take my word for it. [...]
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ARM TechCon: u-blox wireless and mbed OS 5 – Compact code and connectivity with a flash
The mbed OS has seen its ups and downs, but with the release of mbed OS 5 earlier this year, all that seems to be behind it. At the u-blox booth at ARM TechCon, I had the opportunity to meet with Pelle Svenson, Product Marketing Manager for u-blox, who was demonstrating newly integrated support of [...]
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Five Minutes With…John Maddison, SVP, Fortinet
One topic that always comes up with we discuss the IoT is security. While there are many different ways to handle security, no one ever questions whether it’s necessary. Clearly there are different ways to implement it. For example, you could deploy a discrete solution, whereby you have security at the edge, security in the [...]
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IoT Roadshow, Rosemont – Laird technologies: Connect my garage door opener to the Internet
Engineers that are not entrenched in the IoT space are finding themselves thrust into this environment, sometimes kicking and screaming. For example, somebody who is a traditional mechanical engineer working on a washing machine or a garage door opener is now being told that his design has to connect to the Internet. That could be [...]
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Five Minutes With…Dan Glotter, CEO, Optimal+
One of the great things about the Internet of Things (IoT) is the amount of data that you can compile with your application. One of the difficulties associated with the IoT is the amount of data that you can compile with your application. I say that because just having the data doesn’t do you any [...]
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Five Minutes With…David Ewing, CTO, Synapse Wireless
We’re all waiting for IoT to take off. Many in our industry agree that when the IT service providers get involved, that’s when we’ll see the exponential growth. That opinion was confirmed by David Ewing, CTO of Synapse Wireless in this week’s Five Minutes With… discussion. David took the discussion a little further and described [...]
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Latest solution makes mainstream video surveillance a reality
Security is top of mind for just about any application these days. The latest advances in processing technology combined with some innovative video techniques now permit the use of video surveillance in a host of applications. Hence, there’s a trend ...
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Monetize your data storage
Storage is the boring, back-end part of your system. It’s a necessary evil. Or is it? Maybe you’re looking at it from the wrong perspective. In fact, you may be surprised to learn that you can actually monetize your storage subsystem. Yup, you heard that right. Dell OEM solutions can help you, and a good [...]
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Know what to ask (and answer) when moving your appliance to the cloud
Everything is connected to the cloud these days, or at least that’s how it seems. Is now the right time to connect your appliance to the cloud? I’m afraid you get that answer that everyone dreads—it depends. There are some things you need to know before you can accurately answer that question. It has to [...]
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IoT Roadshow, Melbourne, FL – DTx: Never assume when it comes to the Industrial IoT
You never want to make any assumptions when it comes to the IoT. That issue goes deeper when you’re referring to the Industrial IoT, a.k.a. the IIoT. While there seems to be boatloads of information out there regarding how to design for the IoT, specific applications have very specific needs. In some cases, the retrofits [...]
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Five Minutes With…Christian Legare, President, IPSO Alliance
IPSO is a standards organization that doesn’t do standards. Huh? Well, that’s sort of accurate. This week, I spoke to Christian Legare, who is the President and Chairman of the IPSO Alliance, and he was able to put it into a context for me that made sense. It’s all about protocols and technologies that work [...]
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Fog computing with minimal resources
Edge devices don’t always have the compute power to make compute-intensive decisions. Hence, data is collected at the edge and transferred to the cloud, where the heavy compute engines reside. The numbers are crunched and the information is sent back to the edge where some action takes place. The upside to such a solution is [...]
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IoT Roadshow, Austin, TX – Intersil: Don’t assume power has to be analog
Many people – okay, most people – assume that power technology comes packaged in an analog form. To the contrary, Intersil has most some significant inroads with digital power. On the latest stop of Embedded Computing Design’s IoT Roadshow, Chance Dunlap, Director of Infrastructure Power, demonstrates the advantages one can gain from digital power. [youtube=https://youtu.be/lLjkrh3tDlI]
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IoT Roadshow, Austin, TX – Dell: Choosing the right IoT consortium
Dell has a history of getting involved in specifications and consortia. To that end, when Embedded Computing Design’s IoT Roadshow hit Austin, Texas, Brent Hodges, a Liaison to Consortia at Dell, spent a few minutes with me explaining the company’s position and how it ends up as the proverbial “win-win” for OEMs and end users. [...]
Rich Nass, Embedded Computing Brand Director
Rich Nass, Embedded Computing Brand Director
Rich Nass, Embedded Computing Brand Director
Rich Nass, Embedded Computing Brand Director
Rich Nass, Embedded Computing Brand Director