Edge computing is all the rage now. The idea that the petabytes of data generated by industrial processes or even things like autonomous cars will travel to the cloud and back has always been in doubt. Issues associated with latency, bandwidth costs … [Read more...]
News of the Week for Sept. 29, 2017
Will you let Walmart in your home to stock the pantry? If you thought fleet management software was an exciting prospect, you will love this radical new delivery solution. In a new partnership with smart lock maker August, Walmart is testing a new … [Read more...]
News of the Week August 18, 2017
Here's a new worry for manufacturing: Have you thought about hacked 3-D printers? I hadn't either, but researchers at Rutgers and Georgia Tech did because they realized that inserting flaws into 3-D printed parts could be a good way to sabotage … [Read more...]
DefCon’s Greatest Hacks and the Internet of Twizzlers
This week on the Internet of Things Podcast, Stacey Higginbotham and Kevin Tofel talk about news from Defcon, efforts to hack the Amazon Echo and give their take on the Senate’s new IoT security bill. (Hint: they're not that impressed.) They also … [Read more...]
What exactly is the edge of the network?
Spend time with anyone offering enterprise or industrial internet of things products and you'll encounter the term edge: edge devices, the network edge or edge analytics. But the term by itself is almost useless because depending on who you are … [Read more...]