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Open Source as a Driver of Internet of Things
We have advanced from mainframes to workstations, to client-server, to grid computing, to cloud computing and the next step is the Internet of Things. Smart devices, active devices, all around the world are connected, generating huge amounts of data and reacting to commands from central or distributed authorities. And it seems that the ideas of open source now can be applied to hardware ...
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Thread – An Open Standard Protocol for Home Automation
The Internet of Things is poised for huge growth. Along with SMAC (Social, Mobility, Analytics and Cloud), it’s one of the key building blocks of digital technologies and superior digital customer experience. As IoT gets more matured there is the need for a standardization of network protocols used in IoT. With Thread, Google invented a protocol to easily connect various devices in your home.
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How the Internet of Things will Impact our Productivity
The Internet of Things is a technological novelty about to impact our daily lives. In the near future, the IoT is expected to disrupt sectors, revolutionize consumer-brand relations and power a surge of innovation. The IoT will boost employee productivity by helping professionals make the most from their time, adjusting commute solutions and allowing remote mobile device management.
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A Glimpse of Latest Mobile App Development Trends
Even though mobile apps are nothing special anymore, there is still quite some movement in this area. In this article, Katie Stanfield highlights some of the trends we might encounter in the near future if we think about developing mobile applications: App developers and companies will have to keep in mind topics like Big Data and app analytics, Internet of Things or enterprise app stores.
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Garage Door Openers: An Internet of Things Case Study
In this article, author discusses how to design an Internet-connected garage door opener ("IoT opener") to be secure. He talks about cloud service authentication and security improvements offered by networked openers, like two-factor authentication (2FA). He also discusses security infrastructure for IoT devices, which includes user authentication, access policy creation & enforcement.
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Testing the Internet of Things: The Human Experience
Mobile and embedded devices, more than any other technology, are an integral part of our lives and have the potential to become a part of us. This article discusses what “human experience” testing is and is not, and uses concepts from human computer interaction design theory to establish a framework for developing “human experience” test scenarios.
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Interview with Andy Piper on the Eclipse Paho project and the Internet of Things
MQTT provides the communications link for low-power systems. InfoQ caught up with Andy Piper, lead of the Eclipse Paho project, to find out more about the history of MQTT and why it is being used by internet scale companies such as Facebook.