IoT

IoT is one of the hottest trends in tech right now. But as businesses rush to the Internet of Things, they need to take care. As Christian Buhrow explains, when companies push IoT to production too quickly, security features are all too often forgotten to potential catastrophic results.

The rapid evolution of IoT means things are always changing within the field. In this article, Yuliya Gudkova takes a look at some of the latest trends from developers to see how the IoT programming world has changed over the last year and what is likely in the year ahead.

The Internet of Things has revolutionized the way we interact with objects on a daily basis. Technology is meant to make human lives better, and this is the reason why IoT is the best gift technology has offered us of late.

OSGi Allance VP Susan Schwarze provides an overview of the latest developments driven by the OSGi Alliance and recommendations on how you can get involved.

Demand for software-defined networking is growing fast. Opengear’s Nadir Yilmaz suggests that even though the technology and standards may well fragment, it’s the traditional out-of-band management that provides a common denominator to help with the transition.

Three months after the Node.js Foundation started work on a new release candidate, Node.js 4.0.0 has been released – now featuring the io.js fork code base for the very first time.

“Home automation is a luxury,” says Daniel Young, CEO of tech consultancy DXY. What’s missing is for the Internet of Things to prove it can really improve people’s lives.

Gordon Haff is back to speak about the real value of IoT and how open source culture can have a positive impact in this growing field. Haff says that most of today’s big IT trends are fundamentally enabled by open source code.

The first Internet of Things Design Manifesto has gone live with contributions and backing from a plethora of professionals in the IoT community. Its guidelines aim to be a foundation for designers and engineers to create a myriad of products and services.

Matteo Collina has been dealing with new possibilities for savings and energy efficiency through ‘Smart Grids’. For communication between a washing machine and a power plant to work, some obstacles need to be cleared.

According to a recent study on IoT apps commissioned by Progress, 65% of them are able to generate real sales. The majority of IoT solutions included in this group can be found in the fields of smart home, wearables and sports and fitness.

In the past two to three years, OSGi has gone from being an outdated Java-based connected home specification to a mainstream IoT technology. Here we take a look at the myriad of IoT standards and the most successful examples of OSGi IoT implementations.

Thousands of Kickstarter backers are rallying in support for a microcomputer campaign that is promising a whole new level of microcomputing.

Using practical examples, Oracle’s David Delabassee explains what home automation is all about and how Java EE fits into the IoT space.