Project Connected Home over IP, a unifying standard for the smart home will begin formal device certification in late 2021, and the standard will prioritize connectivity using Wi-Fi, Thread, and Ethernet. Plus, in a surprise move, the standard will … [Read more...]
Why IoT (and more) need software bills of materials
You may have started to hear the term "software bills of materials (SBoM)" in the last few years. In 2019, the Food and Drug Administration set out guidance for medical devices makers to disclose the software used in each of their products. More … [Read more...]
Amsterdam’s ethical sensing plan is a model for smart cities
The COVID-19 pandemic may finally be waning as increasing numbers of people get vaccinated, but in the meantime it's pushing a lot of surveillance technologies to the forefront — whether for contact tracing or for counting the number of people in a … [Read more...]
Can open-source smart home systems save your deprecated devices?
On our most recent IoT Podcast, Danny called in to our voicemail hotline with a very interesting question. He wants to know if platforms such as Home Assistant or OpenHAB could help support older smart devices that lose support from their … [Read more...]
IoT news of the week for April 9, 2021
Happy IoT Day, or simply Friday if you don't go for hashtag holidays. Let's get to this week's news. Pelion scores Johnson Controls as a customer: Arm's Pelion business unit has signed a deal to become the device management service for Johnson … [Read more...]