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SMIITY Implemented in Madeira in Partnership With Turismo da Madeira
SMIITY, an accessible, free and mobile platform compatible with iOS and Android mobile devices, which allows regions, cities and/or monuments to communicate with tourists and citizens, arrives to Madeira. The platform was presented last Friday in Funchal, by mobinteg’s founders Fernando Pinto and Pedro Geraldes, in an event that was attended by the Regional Secretary for Economy, Tourism and Culture, Eduardo Jesus.
SMIITY provides the user, in his language, with news, events, points of interest, trails and more. Through interaction with beacons, small signal transmitters that send these contents to the user’s mobile device through Bluetooth Low Energy, these contents can be automatically presented to the user, without him having to look for them.
Madeira, in particular Funchal, will have the installation of several beacons in different parts of the city, namely in the Museum of Quinta das Cruzes and the Fort of São Tiago, providing a more dynamic and interactive experience for citizens and tourists.
In addition to being accessible, SMIITY is an inclusive solution, especially for the blind community, since it has a text-to-speech functionality, which converts text content to audio, in the language of the device.
The mobile device can also be used as an audioguide, making the user experience even more complete, rich and immersive, thus avoiding the use of additional equipment. SMIITY is available in Portugal, the United States and Italy.
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Mocana Introduces IoT Security Developer Kit for Raspberry Pi to Ease Integration With Secure Cryptoprocessors
Mocana Corporation, a leading provider of industrial-strength security technology for mission-critical IoT and industrial control systems, has announced limited availability of the Mocana IoT Security Developer Kit (DevKit). The kit includes Mocana’s IoT security software modules integrated with an Infineon Technologies OPTIGA TPM chip on a Raspberry Pi, a credit card-sized computer. The kit provides developers, who may not have deep cybersecurity or cryptography expertise, with a way to simplify the notoriously difficult integration ofhardware-based security features into IoT devices.
“Expecting developers to understand the more than 3,000 pages of documentation on the proper implementation of TPM is impractical,” said Srinivas Kumar, Vice President of Engineering at Mocana. “Our DevKit provides an easy to use developer interface that greatly simplifies and accelerates the development and testing of critical IoT security functions based on hardware security – in this case a TPM chip.”
One of the world’s leading technology analyst firms predicts that more than 20 billion devices will be connected to the IoT by 2020. Along with this massive growth, comes the need for strong security that can be easily integrated into these billions of devices. The ubiquity of hardware-based security chips and the low-cost of Raspberry Pi makes the Mocana solution a perfect answer to the demands of developers and device manufacturers that want to familiarize themselves with the concepts and functionality of calling cryptographic functions implemented by a TPM.
Customized for a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B board, the Mocana IoT Security DevKit includes the following Mocana software modules:
• An API layer and abstraction platform that simplifies integration with hardware-based security features.
• A secure cryptographic engine for asymmetric and symmetric ciphers.
• Secure transport for SSL, SSH and Wi-Fi (via an 802.11i supplicant).
• Secure key and certificate storage and management based on SCEP, OCSP and EST protocols.
Developers will be able to test the following functionality out of the box with sample applications included with the DevKit:
• Use the Mocana security API layer to generate TPM keypairs and leverage TPM functionalities.
• Establish SSL or SSH connections with TPM keys and certificate-based mutual authentication.
• Establish secure connectivity using an 802.11i (WPA2) supplicant to connect to a Wireless Access Point.
• Demonstrate remote attestation of the platform using a TPM-signed quote.
• Generate TPM keys and X.509 certificates based on SCEP and EST (RFC 7030) certificate management protocols.
“Industrial device manufacturers, IoT solution providers and contract manufacturers are demanding solutions to accelerate the integration of TPM technology,” said Steve Hanna, Senior Principal at Infineon. “Mocana’s IoT Security DevKit, which integrates our OPTIGA TPM hardware, is a comprehensive low-cost solution for anyone looking to harden IoT devices and underlying software with TPM cryptoprocessors.”
The Mocana IoT Security DevKit, which includes a 90-day evaluation license, is available for qualified device manufacturers and IoT solution providers with plans to implement strong security within nine months.
To request the Mocana IoT Security Developer Kit, visit www.mocana.com/devkit.
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Micron, Microsoft Announce Collaboration to Improve Internet of Things Security
Micron Technology (MU) and Microsoft has announced a collaboration that aims to address the major challenge of providing trusted computing models for IoT deployments in industrial, automotive and consumer environments. As digitization and adoption of Internet Protocol (IP) for sensors and devices becomes increasingly pervasive, cyber-security is one of the biggest challenges and barriers to the growth of IoT deployments and associated business models. The new solution utilizes a hardware ‘root of trust’ integrated into Micron’s flash memory in the IoT device along with the Microsoft Azure IoT cloud to establish a strong trusted link between that IoT device and the cloud.
At the Hannover Messe 2017, Micron has also announced a new IoT security technology called Micron Authenta that helps enable strong cryptographic device identity and device health management in flash memory. The concept of monitoring persistent memory storage is becoming more and more critical to understanding a device’s health. By using Microsoft’s support of Device Identity Composition Engine (DICE), an upcoming standard from the Trusted Computing Group (TCG), the combination of the Microsoft Azure IoT cloud and Micron Authenta Technology helps ensure that only trusted hardware gains access to the IoT cloud.
The key aspect of the combined solution is that the health and identity of an IoT device is verified in hardware on the device where critical code is typically stored. This enables more advanced functionality like hardware-based device attestation and provisioning, as well as allows an administrator to securely remediate the device if compromised in the field.
Micron’s Authenta Technology provides a unique level of protection for the lowest layers of IoT device software, starting with the boot process. The approach of utilizing existing standard flash memory sockets enables system developers to harden system level security without adding additional hardware components, leading to a more affordable and robust IoT solution. A wide range of IoT devices that use standard flash memory chips can now be enhanced to improve cyber-security using this combined approach.
In addition to the hardware, Microsoft and Micron has announced that they will offer software development kits (SDKs) that help make it easier to provide secure IoT cloud management and connectivity for new platforms and devices, as well as the ability to retrofit legacy systems.
“Microsoft and Micron are collaborating to provide customers with a unified approach to improve IoT security. This capability will speed up adoption of the latest IoT concepts by enabling customers to broaden their IoT connectivity while decreasing the investment of implementation,” said Sam George, director of Azure IoT cloud services. “Combining these technologies will enable critical security competencies to be underpinned at a low-level in both hardware and software so that users can quickly begin to add their value to these solutions without many of the resource burdens that have been repressing innovation in the industry.”
“A secure Internet of Things requires an always on trust between billions of end-points and cloud management services. Anchors of this trust must be rooted in hardware and be scalable to even the smallest embedded devices,” said Amit Gattani, senior director of Segment Marketing, Embedded Business at Micron. “We are pleased to see Microsoft extending their Azure IoT platform to include such trust services and creating an ecosystem with partners like Micron that provide hardware root of trust building blocks for end-devices. This will significantly ease developments and deployments for our customers across Industrial, Automotive and Consumer IoT markets.”
Visitors to the Hannover Messe Industrial show this week can come see Azure-connected Micron Authenta Technology Flash solutions in action at the Microsoft booth (C040XX) in Hall 7. And developers can learn how to improve the ROI on IoT implementations by utilizing these solutions at Microsoft Build in Seattle May 10–12.
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Parker Hannifin Unveils Industrial IoT Platform as Part of Its Digital Transformation Strategy
Parker Hannifin Corporation (: PH), the global leader in motion and control technologies, has unveiled the Voice of the Machine IoT platform, an open, interoperable and scalable ecosystem of connected products and services. The offering is on display at Hannover Messe through April 28. As part of a broader digital transformation underway, Parker is leveraging 100 years of product and application expertise to build better digital customer experiences.
From online platforms that enable users to engage with our broad portfolio of products, systems and engineering talent; to global monitoring and asset integrity management services that keep critical systems productive, we are creating better outcomes for our customers, said Bob Bond, Vice President – eBusiness, IoT and Services. Our Voice of the Machine offering operates at the sweet spot of our core competency at the component and system level. Parker is creating discrete insights across our broad range of motion and control products that we can then connect to enterprise IoT solutions.
With the Voice of the Machine platform, Parker is addressing challenges that have prevented operators from fully leveraging IoT to improve safety and prevent unplanned downtime and high maintenance costs across their industrial applications. Some of these challenges include legacy devices that are not IoT-enabled, an absence of component-level insights, and competing communication protocols used by various suppliers.
Through the Voice of the Machine IoT platform we enable our customers to hear what their assets are saying at a component level so they can improve application performance, said Miguel Morales, Director, Internet of Things. Parker has 100 years of component and system expertise for motion and control technologies, a prerequisite for unlocking that last mile of safety, reliability and productivity residing within the machines that our products support.
Parker is using a center-led approach and has adopted a common set of IoT standards and best practices for use across all its operating groups and technologies. Every connected product uses the same repository of digital services with an exchange-based platform architecture, designed by software experts at Exosite. The Exosite IoT architecture makes it easy to deploy a diverse set of connected solutions leveraging that same set of digital services and to integrate Parker solutions with other partner platforms.
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1oT Expands Cellular Connectivity Service to More Than 150 Countries Worldwide
1oT is becoming the leading global connectivity provider for Internet of Things (IoT) startups and is especially proud of its strong market presence in connected light vehicles segment. 1oT’s global SIM cards and self-service based connectivity platform called the 1oT Terminal are being used by hundreds of smart IoT startups all over the world. With this release, 1oT is not only strengthening its position among smaller and medium sized IoT device makers, but is unlocking its platform-as-a-service to large market players, including Mobile Network Operators (MNOs).
1oT is announcing three major upgrades to its service. Firstly, due to growing interest from developing countries, the company’s cellular connectivity service has expanded to extra 50 countries and is now covering more than 150 countries worldwide. 1oT is one of the few aggregators in the world providing such broad coverage and partnering with most of the top mobile carriers worldwide. All this enables 1oT to combine endless custom pricing plans to meet every specific need of a global IoT device maker.
Secondly, as of 1st of May 2017, 1oT starts licensing its connectivity management platform to MNOs. The first white-label pilot project has successfully been carried out by one leading European MNO. The 1oT Terminal enables MNOs to address B2B & B2B2C business models and is an unavoidable tool for mobile operators to start monetising M2M connections and IoT services.
According to Märt Kroodo, the co-founder and CEO of 1oT, the 1oT Terminal is an essential bridge between MNOs and enterprises, helping MNOs to overcome key bottlenecks faced today: “MNOs are poorly positioned in providing contemporary end-user oriented IT solutions, customer experience and subscription management options for IoT device makers. Booming IoT evolution and downward trending mobile data prices are forcing MNOs to come up with value-adding services to protect their margin levels.”
Broadly speaking, there are four major shortcomings in today’s MNO service that the 1oT Terminal-as-a-Service is addressing:
• Customer service and experience. No self-service based solutions for ordering, setting up and managing SIMs.
• Subscription billing and management. Lack of flexibility in billing mechanisms.
• Focus on colossal clients. IoT device makers’ segment is more fragmented and often led by innovative SMEs (leaving connected cars aside).
• End-user oriented IT solutions. Today’s IoT device maker is not just looking for cheap data prices, but is interested in receiving real-time information, controlling all its SIMs on self-service basis and integrating functions with its own applications and systems.
1oT undoubtedly covers basic functionalities that today’s IoT device makers are looking from connectivity service, such as receiving real-time information about SIM sessions, detecting the location of SIMs, setting data limits and being able to integrate all functionalities with their systems & applications via API. Moreover, end-clients can set up notifications and alerts for detecting behavioural abnormalities with their SIMs. Research shows that the 1oT Terminal has saved end-clients 32% in mobile data traffic by applying notifications. From the administrative side of functionality, MNOs can set up custom pricing plans and fully automate billing for their end-clients.
According to Märt Kroodo, the effective, automated and self-service based management platform takes a huge weight off from labour intense operations and sets a strong support level for dropping mobile data prices. In addition to MNOs and MVNOs, the 1oT Terminal is also a good fit for high-data-volume clients providing full service to their end-clients.
Thirdly, the 1oT Terminal now holds many value-adding services and apps. Most importantly, the 1oT Terminal can be applied as a supreme platform of many other existing connectivity platforms. Marko Peterson, the co-founder and CTO of 1oT, brings an example: “The 1oT Terminal now enables its clients to integrate other SIMs from Cisco Jasper platform to our Terminal and manage them all from the 1oT Terminal. Additionally, our platform enables the use of data analysis tools, SIM location positioning using Cell ID, sending SMS messages and so forth.”
Looking ahead, 1oT is dedicated to be one of the first in the world to offer eSIM solutions in addition to ordinary SIM cards. It is estimated that within 2 years, most smart devices will be connected to the network through eSIM cards. Additionally, the company is closely monitoring the development of NB-IoT and LTE-M network technologies.
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STMicroelectronics Intros Cloud-Connectable Kit for IoT Device Development
The new high-connectivity STM32L4 IoT Discovery kit (B-L475E-IOT01A) from STMicroelectronics gives unrivalled flexibility for developers building IoT (Internet of Things) nodes by supporting multiple low-power wireless standards and Wi-Fi, while integrating a complete collection of motion, gesture, and environmental sensors, unavailable on other kits in the market.
Designed to help promptly connect IoT devices to Cloud services power-efficiently and cost-effectively, ST’s new IoT development kit adds modules for Bluetooth low energy (BLE), sub-GHz RF, and Wi-Fi, with a dynamic NFC-tag IC with printed antenna to a high-performance, ultra-low power STM32L4 microcontroller all on the same board.
The comprehensive selection of sensors, leveraging ST’s large portfolio of MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems) and laser-ranging devices, support both user interaction and environmental awareness. A MEMS accelerometer and gyroscope IC and MEMS magnetometer for 9-axis motion sensing, a barometric pressure sensor, temperature/humidity sensor, two omnidirectional digital microphones, as well as a FlightSense proximityand gesture sensor, are all ready to use with no extra integration effort needed.
The Discovery kit lets users take advantage of ST’s X-CUBE-AWS expansion software to quickly connect to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) IoT platform, and access tools and services in the Cloud, such as device monitoring and control, data analysis, and machine learning. Support for other Cloud providers will be added in future, as well as software function packs that provide all the components needed to prototype end-to-end IoT solutions, including pre-integrated full application examples.
The heart of ST’s new high-connectivity Discovery kit is an 80MHz STM32L475 32-bit microcontroller that combines the ARM Cortex-M4 core featuring DSP extensions, 1MB on-chip Flash, and the Company’s ultra-low-power technologies to help build smart IoT devices on a tight power budget. The combination of MCU performance with rich sensor and wireless integration on the board maximizes the Discovery kit’s utility, while additional custom functionality may be added using the industry-standard Arduino and Pmod expansion connectors. These two established ecosystems give access to a large selection of expansion boards, which can be quickly connected and easily integrated.
Equipped with the ST-Link debugger/programmer on-board, the STM32L4 Discovery kit IoT node does not need any external probe, and can be used with ARM Keil MDK-ARM, IAR EWARM, or GCC/LLVM-based Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) including free AC6 SW4STM32, or with mbed online tools.
The STM32L4 IoT Discovery kit is ready to order now from st.com or distributors, at a recommended price of $53.00 (part number B-L475E-IOT01A1 for 915MHz operating frequency, or B-L475E-IOT01A2 for 868MHz operating frequency).
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H&D Wireless, Zuite Business Consulting Partner on RTLS Indoor Positioning of Returnable Transport Packages
H&D Wireless, a leading Internet of Things (IoT), cloud and platform system provider, now current for listing at the Stockholm stock exchange, has teamed up with the Nordic’s leading SAP integrator Zuite Business Consulting for the launch of GEPS for Industry, H&D Wireless’s new IoT enterprise indoor real time localization system (RTLS), of Returnable Transport Packages (RTP), specifically developed for the manufacturing industry to support its path to digitalization.
GEPS for Industry is specifically developed to address asset management and visualization challenges of the global manufacturing industry, including asset utilization, production bottlenecks, uneven production flow or stops and unexpected machinery breakdowns.
It is pre-integrated with SAP, the world’s leading ERP application with 345,000 customers worldwide and more than 125 million subscribers in its cloud user base. H&D Wireless has partnered with the Nordic region’s leading SAP integrator Zuite Business Consulting for the roll out of GEPS for Industry.
“With SAP being the leading ERP system, it is crucial for us to be able to offer clients swift, professional and seamless integration of GEPS for Industry with SAP,” said Pär Bergsten, founder and CEO of H&D Wireless. “For this purpose, we are happy to announce the new partnership with Zuite Business Consulting, the best SAP integrator in the Nordics.”
Based in Gothenburg, Zuite Business Consulting integrates industry, process and SAP expertise to create lasting value for its customers. Zuite has expertise in supply chain management, supplier relationship management, customer relationship management and financials.
“IoT is the next step for all logistical business processes,” said Carl Östholm, CEO, Zuite Business Consulting. “Now when Zuiteand H&D Wireless shows that it works with the biggest ERP system in the world, SAP, customers can feel safe to take the next step in IoT.”
GEPS for Industry, Griffin Enterprise Positioning Services, allows manufacturing companies to digitalize and visualize business processes and follow key assets and products in real time. The system, supporting several wireless technologies such as UWB, BLE, RFID and Wi-Fi together with Big data analytics and artificial intelligence that can locate forklifts, assets, people, end products and working progress. It enables workers and management to view business progress, and find issues before they turn into problems.
With GEPS for Industry, H&D Wireless strengthens its position in the fast-growing market of Real-Time Locating Services (RTLS), within enterprises for assets, supply chain and people. The Smart Factory and Industrial IoT market is expected to exceed $205bn by 2020 (Markets and Markets research).