Cloudflare is building the next-gen architecture for the IoT (and edge computing in general): I last spoke with Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince in October 2018, when the company launched its edge computing platform, Workers. This week, the company … [Read more...]
IOTech wants to build an open edge
Middleware is never sexy, but it is always necessary. That's why startup IOTech has turned an open-source middleware project for the IoT edge into a commercial product and raised $7.5 million to sell it. The three-year-old company is based in … [Read more...]
Project Alvarium aims to bring trust to the IoT
This week, a group of companies including ARM, Dell, OSIsoft, and IBM along with the IOTA Foundation launched a project at The Linux Foundation to help build trust in the authenticity of data from connected devices called Project Alvarium. While … [Read more...]
IoT news of the week for August 30, 2019
Some real talk about tech patents: This week, my husband sent me a Cisco patent application for IoT security; it describes a server that contains access permissions and rights to connect to specific IoT devices, which isn't a far-fetched idea but is … [Read more...]
IoT news of the week for April 19, 2019
Alexa gets 2M ad-supported songs: The most commonly used smart speaker feature is listening to music, so it only makes sense that Amazon bring its Music service to Echo devices for free. And by free, I mean you won’t pay any fees but you will be … [Read more...]