Keeping our cities clean with smart waste bins: Intelligent waste management with smart containers could avoid overfilled waste bins and saving municipalities a lot of money. Harald Naumann, engineer in information electronics, explains how.
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You already know what you want to achieve? Then you are ready for technology decisions. There are loads of concepts and technologies out there. Here we point out the pros and cons for the relevant set of IoT technologies.
Keeping our cities clean with smart waste bins: Intelligent waste management with smart containers could avoid overfilled waste bins and saving municipalities a lot of money. Harald Naumann, engineer in information electronics, explains how.
IoT-Development: The multitude of different (radio) technologies confronts companies with the challenge of selecting the optimum networking technology for their IoT solution. The radio technology decision should follow the business decision.
The building automation industry supports a number of rival control networking technologies that can be used to connect and control many diverse types of devices and appliances made by many different manufacturers. Does the IoT threaten the future of building automation the way we know it?
Are inaudible Voice Commands, so called “Dolphin Attacks”, a serious threat for voice controlled smart devices? A team of Chinese researchers published a paper explaining how they used ultrasonic commands, inaudible for the human ear, to take over the control of popular devices such as Amazon Alexa, Google Now or Siri from Apple.
In the Internet of Things, large amounts of data need to be transferred and processed quickly. However, the cloud with its relatively narrow bandwidth is overwhelmed with it – edge computing as data processing on-site is getting increasingly important. Is the end of the cloud getting closer?
If you’re into developing products for the Internet of Things, the term OTA Update (OTAU) might have crossed your path. It’s a feature to remotely deliver updated software to your products without having physical access to it. It comes in handy to keep your customer devices up-to-date or to upsell new services later on. To support Tesla owners in Florida to flee from Hurricane Irma, the carmaker temporarily has unlocked the full capacity of its batteries.
Imagine an industrial environment: a large production hall, where complex machines work around the clock, interact with each other, depend on each other. Now, imagine an IIoT ecosystem whose task it is to monitor every single detail within the production process: positions, speed, temperature, pressure, energy consumption, filling levels – all the metrics that play a crucial role for an efficient process. To reduce idling, prevent failure or simply save resources, hundreds, if not thousands of sensors are needed. The more the better. But with only a centralized intelligence, Industrial IoT (IIoT) could quickly become a bumpy ride.
Microprocessors getting faster, cheaper and more energy efficient thus enabling more and more smaller devices to be equipped with smart technologies. As if that is not enough, experts now say, the classic battery has to vanish. Besides the question of how to power those devices, we’re facing another challenge: what software would work on such low-energy devices?
A serious security issue relating fully automated car washes made the headlines this week: Researches found a way to manipulate internet-connected drive-through car washes that could physically attack vehicles and their passengers. The problem: configuration of the machines could be changed online. A decentralized system could have avoided that.
With new ideas, new technologies and new smart products emerging every year, one big challenge for devices in the Internet of Things remains: How can we make them understand each other? A huge number of manufacturers and products using different protocols plus a wide range of platforms with non-interoperable networking technologies are making the IoT too complicated to handle.
