Internet of Things

Embedded World 2017, starting in Nuremberg will Weightless-P network hardware in action. An alternative to LPWAN technologies in unlicensed spectrum, Ubiik is launching a Weightless-P Kit at the show, the Weightless Ignition Pack. The pack includes the hardware required to deploy, demonstrate, evaluate and develop Weightless-P IoT networks, says the company. Addressing the Internet of Things, the Weightless-P Specification, was ...

French chip technology research institute Leti develops a shield that can help protect electronic devices against physical attacks from the underside of an IC.

Despite a gathering impression that wearables are tanking, the wearables market grew 16.9% in 4Q16, says IDC, with a record 33.9 million units shipped in Q4.

Hardware ‘secure elements’ will defend against hacking in Sigfox low-power wireless wide-area networks, claimed STMicroelectronics as it introduced such a device. “It’s more important than ever to consider and plan the security architecture at the very beginning of the design and development of an IoT solution,” Sigfox chief marketing officer Laetitia Jay. STSAFE-A1SX is a secure element in 4x5mm and ...

Qualcomm, Telstra and Ericsson announce plans for interoperability testing and an over-the-air field trial based on the expected 5G NR (New Radio) specifications.

Connecting millions of electronic devices is creating significant security risks, and designing in security from day one is becoming ever-more crucial.

Cobham Wireless will demonstrate what it claims is industry’s first software-defined 5G user equipment (UE) simulator, based on Verizon’s open 5G standard and down-linking at up to 10Gbit/s, at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona – and it has an IoT simulator – see below. “Virtualising the solution provides operators with the flexibility to test technology and share hardware, software and licenses ...

Large-scale distributed denial of service (DDoS) internet attacks increased 140% year-over-year from Q4 2015, according to the Q4 2016 ‘state of the internet’ security report from Massachusetts content delivery network firm Akamai Technologies, which carries a significant proportion of global web traffic. It uses data gathered by its own software to analyse threats to cloud security and discover seasonal trends. ...

The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) in London is part of GCHQ and will be the UK’s authority on cyber security.

Imagination Technologies is back on track, and focusing on intellectual property licencing, according to CEO Andrew Heath.