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1. IoT Digest
March 2018
By Dmytro Mysak,
Software Developer

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Hardware news
Software news
General news

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Hardware news
▪ Mozilla updates its Project
Things open source IoT
gateway
▪ Port of Rotterdam and digital
transformation with IBM IoT
▪ Staying Green Using IoT
▪ First Smart Safety Shoe
▪ Next Generation Location
Positioning Solution for IoT
▪ Fastest Mobile Data Product
▪ Wagz Dog Collar Now
Connected to the IoT
▪ MWC 2018: World’s first
street light powered smart
cell lights up
▪ MIT’s NanoMap helps drones
to navigate safely at high
speed
▪ Smart-home Innovator Nuki

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Software news
▪ Vodafone and
Samsung strategic
partnership to
launch Smart
Home services
▪ Qualcomm
Announces a New
LTE IoT SDK
▪ Chip-to-Cloud IoT
Connectivity With
New Enterprise
Cloud Toolbox
▪ Libelium Pushes
Its eHealth IoT
Platform with a
New Cloud and
Medical
Development Kits
▪ Rubicon Labs Joins
EdgeX Foundry to
Simplify the
Deployment of
Secure Industrial
and IoT Networks
• Cypress Unveils
Unified Software
Suite to Accelerate
IoT Product
Designs
• TetraScience
develops IoT
platform for R&D

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General news
▪ IoT Tech Expo
Europe 2018
▪ Only one in four
organisations can
protect
themselves against
IoT threats, says
survey
▪ GDPR And IoT –
The Problem Of
Consent
▪ Sysmex America
Expands Use of
ThingWorx
Platform to
Transform the
Patient Experience
▪ Pyeongchang
Winter Olympics
was defended by
drone-catching
drones
▪ Police need AI to
help with surge in
evidential data
• Microsoft Cortana
adds IFTTT
integration and
more device
support

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Hardware news

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Mozilla updates its Project Things open source IoT
gateway
The main part of Project Things is the Linux-based ‘Things Gateway’
software which enables a Raspberry Pi to be set up as a home
automation gateway. In the latest version (0.3) of the software — a
new rules engine, improved voice support, and a tutorial has been
added to help newbies get started.
Microphone support for issuing voice commands
Rules engine for setting ‘If this, then that’ logic for device interaction.
Floor-plan view to lay out devices on a map of the home
Additional device type support, such as smart plugs, dimmable and
colored lights, multi-level switches and sensors, and “virtual” devices.
New add-on system for supporting protocols and devices
New system for safely authorizing third-party applications (using
OAuth).
For more click here.

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Port of Rotterdam prepares for digital transformation
with IBM IoT
Previously, Europe’s largest port by cargo tonnage banked on
conventional communication techniques such as radar and
radio to establish communication between captains, pilots and
terminal operators to make vital decisions on port operations.
With the IBM alliance, IoT sensors in addition to augmented
intelligence (AI) and smart weather data will be used to collect
numerous data streams including weather, water levels,
currents, temperature and check berth availability.
These data will be analysed by IBM’s cloud-based IoT
technologies and turned into information. The port authorities
can use this information to make decisions that can reduce wait
times, manage traffic more efficiently, decide best time for ship
docking, load and unload among other advantages.
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Staying Green Using IIoT
IIoT is truly ubiquitous. It impacts everything from factories to construction equipment to
the plants in the office.
Seriously, the plants.
More info here.

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First Smart Safety Shoe to Protect Workers
Intellinium’s smart shoes allow workers to send and
receive messages handsfree, without the need for
a separate smartphone.
Alerts can be sent using Intellinium’s patented force
sensor membrane built into the toe of the boot and
connected to Sierra Wireless’ AirPrime® HL series
cellular module.
During an emergency, a worker can acknowledge
receiving a message to evacuate by touching a toe
to the sensor.
For more click here.

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Next Generation Location Positioning Solution for IoT
Proof of concept demonstrates the power of LTE-only
positioning capabilities.
This solution is based on off-loading small amounts of
modem data to PoLTE’s cloud servers where location
engines accurately calculate positioning of devices. If a
location engine was embedded on the device itself,
processing power and memory would be constrained
while adversely impacting battery life and device size.
For mass adoption, PoLTE believes that the wireless
device itself should be minimally impacted while
adding highly valued location capabilities.
For more click here.

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Telit Announces World’s Fastest Mobile Data Product,
First 1Gbps-class LTE Mini PCIe Card
Telit announced the LM960, world’s first global full-size PCI
Express Mini Card (mPCIe) for enterprise routers and
appliances.
Up to 1200 Mbps DL w/5x Carrier Aggregation, 4×4 MIMO and
256 QAM
LTE FDD Bands : B1, B25(B2), B3, B66(B4), B26(B5), B7, B8,
B12(17), B13, B14, B20, B28, B29(DL), B30, B32(DL), B71
LTE TDD Bands: B38, B39, B40, B41, B42, B46(DL), B48
3G Bands: B1, B2, B4, B5, B8
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Wagz Dog Collar Now Connected to the IoT
The Wagz Smart Collar helps dog owners understand and
monitor their dogs like never before.
It’s the first of its kind collar and app that tracks activity, barking,
exercise, food, and location – while enabling live HD video
streaming, two-way audio and invisible leashing and fencing.
The collar is part of a larger connected system with a smart
feeder and door that connect through one app experience.
For more click here.

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MWC 2018: World’s first street light powered smart cell
lights up
Lighting up the IoT: Connected technology firm
Ubicquia has shown off what it claims is the world’s
first streetlight-powered smart cell, ahead of MWC
2018 in Barcelona.
The device, called Ubimetro, allows streetlights to
become integrated components within a variety of
IoT networks, using them both as power sources and
transmission towers. It forms part of the company’s
strategy to bring smart-city technology to the
masses.
More info here.

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MIT’s NanoMap helps drones to navigate safely at high
speed
NanoMap allows drones to navigate through
dense or uncertain environments at 20 miles
per hour.
For more click here.

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Smart-home Innovator Nuki
Allegion plc has made a minority investment in
European smart-home innovator Nuki GmbH.
Founded in Austria in 2014, Nuki’s cornerstone
product is a retrofit residential smart lock.
The Nuki Smart Lock, which is easily installed on top
of an existing key and lock, offers Bluetooth-
enabled smartphone and Nuki Fob credentialing
and fits the majority of existing European locks.
More info here.

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Software news

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Vodafone and Samsung strategic partnership to launch
Smart Home services
Samsung SmartThings Wifi hub – can manage and interconnect a large
number of compatible IoT products to the SmartThings open platform.
SmartThings Security Camera – provides high-quality images and has motion
detection and built in infra-red for night time.
SmartThings Multipurpose Sensor – can be placed on a window or door to
generate an immediate alert if it is opened or closed unexpectedly, or if left
open. It can also monitor changes in room temperature and vibration,
sending an alert if the room is too warm or too cold, or if there is a knock on
the door.
SmartThings Siren – this small (9.5cm x 6.3cm x 3.95cm) but loud (85dB)
warning siren is fitted with a strobe light.
V-Home Alarm Assistant – this is a comprehensive alerting service to send a
series of app notifications, SMS messages and automated outgoing phone
calls, as necessary, to named contacts.
For more click here.

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Qualcomm Announces a New LTE IoT SDK in Support of the
Commercialization of IoT Solutions Using Cellular Connectivity
Qualcomm Technologies announced a new LTE IoT Software Development Kit
(SDK) for the Qualcomm® MDM9206 LTE IoT global multimode modem.
The MDM9206 LTE IoT modem has pre-integrated support for many cloud
platforms, including Alibaba Cloud Link One, China Mobile OneNET, DTSTON
DTCloud, Ericsson IoT Accelerator, Gizwits and Verizon ThingSpace.
The LTE IoT SDK is designed to allow developers to extend this further and
develop support for other major IoT cloud providers. Using hardware modules
featuring the MDM9206 LTE IoT modem, along with this new LTE IoT SDK, is
expected to help OEMs and developers address a vast array of the existing
and emerging cellular-connected use cases for commercial and industrial IoT
such as smart metering, smart gateways, asset tracking and more.
For more click here.

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Renesas Synergy Strengthens Chip-to-Cloud IoT
Connectivity With New Enterprise Cloud Toolbox
The new Renesas Synergy™ Enterprise Cloud
Toolbox v1.1 is a software Application Project
that, together with the Synergy AE-CLOUD1 kit,
provides a reference design and starting point for
users to connect in 10 minutes or less to
enterprise clouds such as Microsoft Azure™,
Amazon Web Services™, and Google Cloud
Platform™. The Enterprise Cloud Toolbox saves
embedded developers weeks or even months to
create a secure end-to-end Internet of Things (IoT)
application for monitoring and controlling the
surrounding environment in home, building, or
industrial automation systems.
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Libelium Pushes Its eHealth IoT Platform with a New
Cloud and Medical Development Kits
Libelium boosts MySignals, itis an eHealth IoT Development
platform for remote health monitoring, equipped with 17
different sensors that measure the most important vital signs
such as pulse, breath rate, oxygen in blood, temperature,
electrocardiogram signals, blood pressure, muscle
electromyographic signals, glucose levels, galvanic skin
response, lung capacity, snore waves, patient position, airflow
and body scale parameters.
The new MySignals kits are designed for users with different
chronic pathologies that require a daily monitoring of some
medical parameters. Respiratory diseases like asthma and
breathing depression, diabetes, etc.Now this remote
surveillance allows users to monitor the health status on a
daily basis.
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Rubicon Labs Joins EdgeX Foundry to Simplify the Deployment of
Secure Industrial and IoT Networks and Enable Rapid Time to Market
In its first iteration, IoT enabled devices to be connected to the cloud, but the emergence of the “edge”
ecosystem has ushered in a new IoT 2.0 era. Designed to run on any hardware or operating system, and
with any combination of application environments, the edge ecosystem accelerates time to market and
simplifies deployments of secure Industrial and IoT networks.
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Cypress Unveils Unified Software Suite to Accelerate
IoT Product Designs
Cypress Corp. announced a unified software
tool suite that streamlines product designs
for the Internet of Things (IoT). The new
ModusToolbox™ suite delivers the rich
design resources of Cypress’ WICED® IoT
connectivity libraries and the analog and
digital peripherals libraries of its PSoC®
microcontrollers (MCUs) within the
familiar, widely-deployed open-source
Eclipse Integrated Design Environments
(IDEs).
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TetraScience develops IoT platform for R&D
The company’s data integration platform can connect
disparate types of lab equipment, and their associated
software, and aggregate that information on the cloud.
Researchers can then monitor, manage and automate
their experiments remotely.
This streamlines processes that have historically taken
up valuable time and resources, and eases data
collection and collaboration.
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IoT Tech Expo Europe 2018
27 June 2018 08:00 - 28 June 2018 17:00
RAI Amsterdam, Europaplein 2-22, Amsterdam, 1078 GZ
3 co-located events. 18 conference tracks. 8,000 attendees. 300+ speakers. 300+
exhibitors.
For more click here.

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Only one in four organisations can protect themselves
against IoT threats, says survey
“Organisations need to be aware of these risks, even
if they do not use any IoT devices – the growing
number of connected devices globally means there
is an increased risk of DDoS attacks through IoT
botnets – but our data suggests firms are ignoring
these threats,” added Groucutt.
“Research from our annual Data Health Check
survey revealed that only 13% of businesses saw
IoT threats as a major concern. Additionally, just
over a quarter of organisations (27%) had set
policies in place designed to protect against IoT
threats.”
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GDPR And IoT – The Problem Of Consent
IoT manufacturers and service providers don’t have a good track record
with providing explanations. According to data from 2016:
▪ 59% of IoT devices failed to explain to users how they process user
data
▪ 68% failed to explain how they store information
▪ 72% failed to explain how to delete data
▪ 38% failed to include contact information
One of solution IoT manufacturers and service providers can pursue is
data anonymization. If the data can be fully anonymized so that it
cannot be used to identify any person, it falls out of the jurisdiction of
GDPR. However, if making data more anonymous makes it less
valuable, a cost-benefit analysis should precede any effort to
anonymize data.
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Sysmex America Expands Use of ThingWorx Platform
to Transform the Patient Experience
PTC and Sysmex America today announced that Sysmex has expanded its use
of the ThingWorx® Industrial Innovation Platform to enable Sysmex to
revolutionize the delivery of blood test results with the Sysmex XW-100™
automated hematology CBC analyzer.
The XW-100 is the first automated hematology analyzer developed for CLIA-
waived use. Instead of sending blood samples to outside laboratories and
awaiting the results, the XW-100 makes it possible for one of the most
frequently requested blood tests, the CBC, to be performed in medical offices
where patients are first treated. On-site blood test results are available to
patients in as few as three minutes.
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Pyeongchang Winter Olympics was defended by drone-
catching drones
Authorities in South Korea have been preparing to defend the
Winter Olympics, that was held in Pyeongchang in February,
from drone-related terror attacks.
What goes up must come down, so it’s no surprise that a
counter-drone industry is emerging, dedicated to bringing
rogue pilots down to earth with a bump.
The rise of readily available flying robots was always going to
represent a safety risk. That risk is now more pronounced
than ever; many consumer-level drones are capable of
operating even while the pilot is sat miles away.
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UK’s National Police need AI to help with surge in
evidential data
Quoted in The Guardian, Thornton suggested that the use of AI has
already led to several rape prosecutions being dropped, after mistakes
were made during earlier stages of the investigations.
For example, police had failed to hand over evidence that undermined
their cases, despite having a duty to pursue all reasonable lines of
enquiry, both for and against a conviction.
Although there have been suggestions of a “cultural problem” within the
police with regards to disclosure, Thornton suggested that the key issue
was the overwhelming amounts of data that forces now have to plough
through.
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Fitbit and Apple Watch can help predict diabetes
Smart watches just got smarter, according to a new study of
the use of wearables to predict the risk of medical conditions,
including diabetes, high cholesterol, and high blood pressure.
An AI neural network, known as DeepHeart, is the brains
behind the breakthrough.
Research from digital heart-rate tracking company
Cardiogram has revealed the latent potential in consumer
heart rate trackers, such as those found in Fitbit and Apple
Watch devices, to detect signs of cardiovascular illnesses.
They presented their findings at this week’s AAAI Conference
on Artificial Intelligence in New Orleans.
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Microsoft Cortana adds IFTTT integration and more
device support
Microsoft has been steadily improving
Cortana’s skills in the face of intense
competition from the likes of Amazon
Alexa, Google Assistant, and Apple’s Siri.
IFTTT has been available to Google
Assistant and Alexa since 2016 and 2015,
respectively.
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