Cloud software company Salesforce today is announcing the release of IoT Cloud, a new service that will put the company into a new market. Think of IoT Cloud as a tool that non-technical workers can use to automatically kick off specific actions based on data from Internet-connected devices, social media messages, websites, and other sources.
“We’re really focused on how we can take all the data that’s being generated by all these devices and make it more meaningful to our customers,” Dylan Steele, senior director of product marketing for Salesforce App Cloud, told VentureBeat in an interview.
Since the 1990s, beekeepers around the world have witnessed the strange and inexplicable disappearance of honeybees from their hives. Not only does this natural tragedy affect the supply of succulent honey; honeybees are also the pollinators of flowers and plants that play a central role in the earth’s ecosystem, and are a source of a third of our food. Many melittologists (bee scientists), horticulturalists and beekeepers alike blame this decline on the increasing use of pesticides on plants and crops, as well as the effects of climate change.
The startup that was founded in 2008 and raised $77 million to advance its low-power, wireless networking technology for utility power grids and other industrial applications has a new identity, new CEO, and a bigger, more ambitious strategic focus on the Internet of Things (IoT).
With Samsung losing momentum in areas like smartphones and tablets, the company announced today an ambitious bet on the Internet of Things as it seeks to regain momentum.
At the IFA consumer electronics trade show in Berlin, Samsung officials unveiled a SmartThings Hub, which can be used to connect security cameras, smart thermostats, and other smart home gadgets. The hub was developed by SmartThings, the company Samsung acquired last year.
The hub, which costs $99, has a backup battery that lasts 10 hours, and can perform many functions between gadgets locally in the event that Internet connection is lost.
China Unicom, THTI, la plataforma de innovación de la Universidad de Tsinghua y Telefónica Open Future_, la red global de emprendimiento e inversión de Telefónica, han seleccionado ocho innovadores proyectos desarrollados en el ámbito del “internet de las cosas” (IoT), como ganadoras de la convocatoria global conjunta que se lanzó el pasado mes de Marzo en Barcelona durante el MWC2015.
Las startups españolas Ubikwa y Zolertia, la chilena WiseConn y las chinas Yaoyao, Mugeda, Vigo, Amesante y LoveLive han sido las premiadas de este concurso en el que han participado 1000 startups, de 16 países diferentes, orientadas a todo tipo de sectores económicos.
In the near future, IoT will drive tremendous innovation in the way our food is grown, processed, distributed, stored, and consumed. Plants and animals will literally have a “voice.” Not a human voice, per se, but a voice based on data that can tell people, computers, and machines when, for example, they are thirsty, need more sun, require medicine, or need individual attention.
Today, most networked appliances on the Internet of Things (IoT) are not too demanding from a bandwidth perspective. Often they just share simple data that only require a few bytes to transfer from one device to another. For example, a sensor may update a computer with a machine’s current fuel efficiency, or the temperature of a commercial refrigeration unit – and, in network terms, this doesn’t add up to much traffic.
UK-based chip and systems maker ARM announced Thursday that it was acquiring Israel’s Sansa Security, which specializes in protective cyber-security systems for embedded chips.
Embedded chips power the Internet of Things (IoT), the networked infrastructure that connects billions of standalone devices, appliances, and objects to servers, where data is sent back and forth in order to enhance user experience and value.
If the objective of the Internet of Things is to connect and control everything online, Israeli start-up WiseSec can perhaps be called the world’s biggest IoT company. That’s because its latest gadget — the Genii — allows users to control a whopping 800,000 devices from their smartphones.
Using a clever combination of web technology, infrared beams, and Bluetooth connections, WiseSec’s system lets users connect — to the Internet — all gadgets that can be controlled with a remote control. This allows users to turn on and off lights, televisions, air conditioners, ovens, or anything else, from a distance by using electronic signals.
Despite the promise of the Internet of Things to redefine how we interact with the things around us, the reality may be closer to many competing Intranets of Things — each with its own network of users and products.
Within the last few years, the emerging Internet of Things (IoT) has entered the mainstream vernacular. The IoT consists of “real” things increasingly connected to each other virtually in an Internet-like structure.
