Products, discussion and more from the world of IoT
You may wonder if any of us are really lazy enough to buy into this self making bed concept, but Smart Duvet’s inventor Tina Cayouette says the duvet has a real practical purpose for those with mobility problems.
The Smart Duvet was developed in Montreal, Canada and basically makes your bed for you by using air-filled tubes embedded in the lining.
Robotics made simple – Hungarian startup Vengit has developed a series of Wi-Fi and Bluetooth-enabled bricks called SBrick Plus, a brick that you can place into your LEGO® models so you can control them remotely using a smart device.
You can, for instance, design a robot that uses motors and proximity sensors to find its way through a maze, or a crane that loads or unloads a weight when a Lego wagon is close by.
Not just for investors this one – 12 interesting facts that you may not already know about the Internet of Things…
The Internet of Things is one of those buzzwords you hear everywhere, but nobody ever bothers to explain what it is. The concept is expected to fuel a staggering $3 trillion market by 2020, just four short years from now.
A picture paints a thousand words, and none more so than these enlightening IoT infographics giving us a pictorial view into the world of the Internet of Things.
Canary, makers of the all-in-one security solution with HD camera, siren and air monitor, have recently announced that it has passed rigorous testing to attain the first Internet of Things (IoT) security certification from ICSA Labs, a leading third-party testing and certification body and an independent division of Verizon.
“In an industry as fast growing and diverse as the Internet of Things, data security is too often an afterthought,” said Chris Rill, co-founder and CTO, Canary. “Until now, there hasn’t been a trusted resource to vet many of the connected home products currently flooding the market
Following the recent Mirai Dyn DDoS attack, anti-virus and security company AVG believes the way to stop IoT devices from getting infected in the first place, is to put the security on your router – i.e. “the door to your home”. They believe they can achieve this with their Chime operating system.
instead of putting anti-virus tech or other security protections on each individual device, it’s the router that aims to secure home networks instead. In a future release, Chime will also be able to scan networks for known vulnerabilities, and inform the user what devices they own are particularly at risk
James O Malley over at Gizmodo is keen on the new Amazon Echo Dot – in fact, it seems he can’t live without it…
If you’re thinking of having kids – don’t. Get an Echo instead. I now spend my days barking commands at Alexa, the virtual assistant – and generally speaking, she answers back without giving me any shit.
Forbes reviews research company Forrester‘s predictions for IoT in 2017.
In “Predictions 2017: Security And Skills Will Temper Growth Of IoT,” Forrester argues that IoT’s potential to fuel business growth is accompanied by multifaceted complexity.
Security expert Brian Krebs gives the lowdown on Friday’s massive Internet attack. Mirai, the same malware strain that was used against his own site only last month was launched against Dyn, a major DNS host. The attack, utilising millions of hacked Internet of Things devices, impacted some of the Internet’s top destinations, including Twitter, Amazon, Spotify and Netflix.
Mirai scours the Web for IoT devices protected by little more than factory-default usernames and passwords, and then enlists the devices in attacks that hurl junk traffic at an online target until it can no longer accommodate legitimate visitors or users.
Into-the-home drone delivery is now possible according to San Francisco-based technology company Chronicled. The company have developed an IoT and blockchain protocol which operates on the Ethereum public blockchain, allowing the drone to authenticate with access control devices on windows or doors.
As far as we know, this is the first use of blockchain technology in interaction with a dynamic physical object and access control in real-time.
Hackers run riot as hotels and US police hit
O2 offers internet of things-backed motor insurance
New Internet of Things technology could lower pet insurance premiums
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Bosch, Cisco and Foxconn join blockchain IoT consortium
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