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Canonical Releases Ubuntu Core 20 for Iot Devices and Embedded Systems
Canonical released a minimal containerised version of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS specifically for IoT devices and embedded systems. Ubuntu Core is an operating system for industry and consumer devices. It is available for both x86 and ARM computers. Additional features compared to previous Core operating systems are secure boot, full drive encryption, and secure device recovery.
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New Raspberry Pico Micro-Controller Brings Versatility and Small Size Factor
The Raspberry Pi Foundation recently released the Pico, a small, inexpensive micro-controller board based on a custom-designed RP2040 chip. The RP2040 has two ARM cores clocking at 133MHz, 264KB internal SRAM, and 2MB QSPI Flash. The Pico enables a large range of applications with a wide range of flexible I/O options (I2C, SPI, PWM, 8 Programmable I/O state machines for custom peripheral support).
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Google Phases out Android Things
Google recently announced phasing out its Android Things IoT platform. New projects will not be accepted after January 5, 2021, and the Android Things console will be turned down for all projects in 2022.
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AWS Announces a New Version of AWS Iot Greengrass
Recently, AWS announced a new version of its IoT Greengrass edge runtime and cloud service during the annual re:Invent. The latest version 2.0 comes with pre-built software components, local software development tools, and new features for managing software on large fleet devices.
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The WebThings Iot Platform Continues on Its Own after Mozilla Disengages from Iot
David Bryant recently announced that Mozilla WebThings becomes WebThings and leaves the Mozilla umbrella to become an independent community-led open source project. The project’s website also moves from Mozilla IoT webpage to its own (webthings.io). The move ensures the continuity of operations for the WebThings user base while Mozilla continues to focus on its restructuration.
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WebAssembly Extended with Hot Reloading, Remote Debugging and Uniform Hardware Access
Researchers recently presented WARDuino, an extension to WebAssembly targeting microcontrollers. WARDuino addresses common development pain points by adding live code updates, remote debugging, and access to the microcontroller’s hardware modules. WARDuino’s virtual machine runs five times faster than Espruino (a popular JavaScript interpreter for microcontrollers) on some benchmarks.
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Azure Sphere, a Secure IoT Platform, Reaches General Availability
In a recent blog post, Microsoft announced the general availability (GA) of Azure Sphere, an end-to-end IoT Security Platform. The Azure Sphere platform focuses on three key areas including microcontroller units (MCUs), a secure operating system (OS), which is based upon Linux, and providing cloud security services including software updates and detecting emerging threats.
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AWS IoT Day Recap: Eight New Powerful Features
As part of AWS re:Invent pre-event announcements, Amazon shared eight new features available within their Internet of Things platform. These new features include: secure tunneling, configurable endpoints, custom domains for configurable endpoints, enhanced custom authorizers, fleet provisioning, Alexa Voice Services (AVS) integration and AWS IoT Greengrass enhancements.
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Data Science at the Intersection of Emerging Technologies
Kirk Borne, principal data scientist at Booz Allen Hamilton, gave a keynote presentation at this year’s Oracle Code One Conference on how the connection between emerging technologies, data, and machine learning are transforming data into value. Emerging technological innovations like AI, robotics, computer vision and more, are enabled by data and create value from data.
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Extending the Reach of SQL to IoT Microcontrollers, ITTIA and Cypress Release SDK
In a recent press release, ITTIA, a maker of embedded database software for Internet of Things (IoT) devices, and Cypress Semiconductor Corp, announced a collaborative IoT device and data management capability. The new capability integrates SQL into the WICED SDK and unlocks the power of flash media on Cypress wireless microcontrollers (MCU).
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Simplifying Device Connectivity, Microsoft Releases IoT Plug and Play in Preview
In a recent blog post, Microsoft announced the preview of IoT Plug and Play to simplify device integrations through a published capability model, which is based on the Digital Twin definition language. When device manufacturers incorporate this capability model, their products are eligible to appear in the Azure Certified for IoT device catalog.
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Making Robots More Intelligent, Microsoft Releases Autonomous Systems Platform
At the recent Build conference in Seattle, Microsoft announced, in limited preview, an end-to-end toolchain to help developers and organizations build autonomous systems for their industries. The platform includes machine teaching tools and simulation technologies that enable intelligent robotic systems to complete tasks like running autonomous forklifts and robotic inspection platforms.
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Open Source Testware for Systematic IoT Testing: Eclipse IoT-Testware
The project Eclipse IoT-Testware is delivering free open-source test tools and programs for the industry and companies developing Internet-of-Things (IoT) solutions. At TestCon Moscow 2019 Axel Rennoch, senior scientist at Fraunhofer FOKUS, spoke about quality assurance for IoT.
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Rancher Labs Release Lightweight Kubernetes Distribution "k3s" for Edge, IoT and Telco Platforms
Rancher Labs has announced a new open source project, k3s, which is a lightweight Kubernetes distribution that has been optimised towards running within resource-constrained environments, such as edge or IoT locations, or within telco and manufacturing systems.
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Microsoft Announces Azure IoT Edge Support for Virtual Machines
In a recent blog post, Microsoft announced support for Azure IoT Edge on virtual machines. This new capability expands Microsoft’s support for virtualization platforms, including VMware vSphere and Hyper-V. Using these virtualization platforms, customers can choose to run Azure IoT Edge on Windows, a variety of Linux distributions or containers.