Webcams may guard our homes against burglars, and Fitbits may protect us against the flab we’d put on without exercising.
But the proliferation of such connected devices is also perforating the Web with millions of holes that hackers can drive through, network security experts reported as the annual RSA Conference on cybersecurity got under way at the Moscone Center in downtown San Francisco this week.
Movidius‘ vision is to build the visual sensors for the Internet of Things, making everyday things smart and connected. And that vision helped the company raise $40 million in funding today.
The investment is one of the biggest in a chip design company in the past couple of years, and it shows there’s still room for startups in a $300 billion industry dominated by giant companies. The Internet of Things requires innovation, and it’s creating that opening for startups.
San Mateo, California-based Movidius designs chips that can be used to sense the environment around you. They can be used for applications like self-driving cars or bicycle helmets that can detect road hazards.
Technology giant IBM announced today the formation of a new Internet of Things (IoT) business unit and said it would invest $3 billion in it over the next four years.
As part of the new push, IBM will begin to provide companies with several industry-specific cloud-based services, as well as new tools to help developers populate applications with data from Internet-connected devices.
Amazon.com has acquired 2lemetry, a startup with a system for sending, receiving, and analyzing data from Internet-connected devices.
“We can confirm that Amazon has acquired 2lemetry, and we look forward to continuing to support 2lemetry customers,” an Amazon Web Services spokeswoman told VentureBeat in an email. She would not tell VentureBeat how the team or technology would be integrated into Amazon. (TechCrunch originally reported on the deal.)
Informe publicado por OCDE sobre Internet of Things, o la comunicación máquina-máquina (M2M) centrándose en redes móvil vía Wi-Fi. Se estima que hay 5.000 millones de dispositivos conectados mediante redes móviles y se prevé que esta cifra sea de 50.000 millones para el final de la década. El paper facilita ejemplos sobre algunos de los usos que se le da al M2M y su potencial para mejorar la economía y el desarrollo social. El informe concluye que para lograr ese impacto es necesario que haya cambios en las políticas de telecomunicaciones y en los marcos regulatorios.
Interest in the Internet of Things has focused on the connected home, with attention to newly designed thermostats, lights, and security systems. Yet the connected home is just the first wave of a greater transition toward “smart, connected products” throughout the economy. The next wave, focusing on what is known as the Industrial Internet, may have an even more transformative effect on our lives.
Call it the Clapper for the Internet of Things era. Open the new app from startup IFTTT and you’ll find just one, big virtual button. Tapping it will instantly perform a complex action that you have preprogrammed, like setting your Internet-connected thermostat to 70 degrees or blocking off the next 15 minutes on your Google calendar.
NetVibes has come a long way. In a world where business leaders, entrepreneurs, and developers shout the word “pivot” at a moment’s notice, NetVibes has stuck to its original plan throughout its (relatively, in Internet terms) long history.
And today, NetVibes has announced that its web tool is going to push that original intention further by becoming your dashboard for the Internet of Things (IoT).
he current state-of-play with the so-called Internet of Things (IoT) offers a tantalizing glimpse into the future of ubiquitious computing, with Web-enabled thermostats, self-driving cars, and even connected kettles creeping into our daily lives. But for all the cool applications we’re starting to see in the real world, there needs to be a force that enables it all.
We live in the age of narcissism and social media’s only making it worse. That’s a fairly common sentiment among media pundits and one which, on the face of it, has plenty of evidence to back it up. After all, they’ll argue, there’s a reason “selfie” the Oxford Dictionaries Online word of the year in 2013. And think about how we tailor the content we put out on social media. It’s meant to portray the best possible version of ourselves rather than anything accurate. Thing is, that may all be about to change.
