MYTHINGS is the only wireless smart sensor for Industrial IoT leveraging MIOTY (TS-UNB), the ETSI standardized LPWAN protocol. BehrTech, a disruptive enabler of next-gen wireless connectivity for the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), announced today the launch of the MYTHINGS™ Smart Sensor. This wireless, multi-purpose sensor uses Telegram Splitting technology for long-range, robust, and power-efficient […]
Archives for September 2019
Sprint and CalAmp Form Strategic IoT Alliance
Sprint’s Curiosity™ IoT platform to deliver advanced telematics solutions that improve operational efficiency, secure high-value assets and drive profitability for enterprises and SMBs. CalAmp announced today a strategic relationship with Sprint, a leader in IoT and telecommunications innovations, to deliver intelligent telematics devices and software applications, along with unique CalAmp iOn™ Device as a Service […]
Eutelsat kicks off ELO, its constellation of nanosatellites dedicated to the Internet of Things
Named ELO, this constellation should number 25 nanosatellites in the next three years. Demo satellite to be launched early next year. The constellation’s first four operational satellites will be developed under the supervision of Loft Orbital and Clyde Space. Partnership with IoT network operator and service provider Sigfox will enable unparalleled integration between terrestrial and […]
Top Ten Security Challenges for Connected Cars
An article by Ben Cade, CEO at Trustonic. This article explores the security issues the automotive industry must address as it becomes more connected. The global market for connected cars is forecast to grow significantly over the next few years as innovations in connectivity transform the automotive industry. The benefits to consumers are numerous: connectivity […]
Introducing cost-effective increment snapshots of Azure managed disks in preview
The preview of incremental snapshots of Azure managed disks is now available. Incremental snapshots are a cost-effective point-in-time backup of managed disks. Unlike current snapshots, which are billed for the full size, incremental snapshots are billed for the delta changes to disks since the last snapshot. They are always stored on the most cost-effective storage […]
Racial slurs hurled by a machine learning algorithm
Awesome, not awesome. #Awesome“…We’ve never directly detected or measured dark matter, but we know it exists because we can see its influence on the universe. Many of the movements of different stars and galaxies cannot be explained by the gravity exerted by the matter we can see…A team of researchers from ETH Zurich in Switzerland trained […]
New Moxee Signal Personal Safety Solution Now Available
KonnectONE Delivers Peace of Mind with Moxee Signal—A First-of-Its-Kind Connected Mobile Personal Safety Solution. KonnectONE today announced the launch of its Moxee™ Signal mobile personal safety solution. Moxee Signal is a compact, easy-to-use device that pairs built-in 4G LTE with Moxee’s professional monitoring services to help people feel safe and connected with their loved ones. […]
Hot patching SQL Server Engine in Azure SQL Database
In the world of cloud database services, few things are more important to customers than having uninterrupted access to their data. In industries like online gaming and financial services that experience high transaction rates, even the smallest interruptions can potentially impact the end-user’s experience. Azure SQL Database is evergreen, meaning that it always has the […]
Navigating the intelligent edge: answers to top questions
Over the past ten years, Microsoft has seen embedded IoT devices get progressively smarter and more connected, running software intelligence near the point where the data is being generated within a network. And having memory and compute capabilities at the intelligent edge solves multiple conundrums related to connectivity, bandwidth, latencies, and privacy/security. Of course, each […]
How to develop your service health alerting strategy
Service issues are anything that could affect your availability, from outages and planned maintenance to service transitions and retirements. While rare—and getting rarer all the time, thanks to innovations in impactless maintenance and disciplines like site reliability engineering—service issues do occur, which is why service health alerting is such a critical part of successfully managing […]