Swimming from one end of a pool to the other in a straight line is fairly easy. Doing the same in an open body of water or lake, not so much. With the absence of lanes, swimmers and triathletes tend to…
This week Google launched their new Chromecast audio and encouraged you to switch to WiFi for your streaming audio. The shift in audio listening habits is real, content is no longer local, and streaming…
As many of us know all too well, injuries to the hand and wrist are fairly common among children. Making matters worse, rehabilitation exercises tend to be just as demotivating as they are monotonous.…
A London-based startup raises the concept of wearables design to a new level. BLOCKS, the brainchild of Ali Tahmasebzadeh and Serge Vasylechko, launched its Kickstarter program for a design considered…
Hardware interoperability is a long-standing issue. Ideally different computer and microcontroller boards expose their internals the way it fits their capabilities best. On the other hand, ideally peripherals…
Last October we announced that ARM and our partners were creating a software ecosystem and new operating system for Internet-connected devices with standards support, low power and security as key goals…
“The ŌURA ring may well be the first sleep tracker that works. I met the founder, and backed their Kickstarter,” Tim O’Reilly recently tweeted in response to the revolutionary wellness…
If you are following IoT, you must have heard about CoAP, OMALWM2M and IPSO smart objects and have wondered how all these new protocols fits together in a stack. In this post we will look at how these…
The IoT team at ARM puts a lot of effort into creating and implemented standards for security and communications. A great example of this is the Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP), RFC7252, which…
When director Sam Esmail was casting for his latest cyberpunk–thriller TV series Mr. Robot, we’re surprised serial hacker Samy Kamkar wasn’t in the running for the star role. That’s because, in just the…
For Internet of Things (IoT) designs, the consumer segment is a sexy siren call, but enterprise applications are where the money is, according to a top analyst from IDC. Vernon Turner, senior vice president…
In electronics design the ecosystem is driving hard toward delivering devices, software and tools to enable IoT to take off. For retailers it could be huge...or not. They’re trying to figure it out as…
Aside from the pocket protector, the wristwatch has become a staple for any true geek. And we’re not just talking about any ordinary wrist-adorned device, it has to be unique — the dorkier, the better…
This is the third installment of the Sensors to Servers demo blog. We’ll talk about the server side of the story and the visualisation we provided to client devices.
Welcome to the second instalment of the Sensors to Servers demonstration blog. In this entry, we’ll talk in more detail about the sensor nodes developed for the demonstration.
This blog is the first in a series on the Sensors to Servers demonstration. This first episode will present the basic topology of the demonstration and discuss the connectivity standards used.
Recently launched on Kickstarter, the Wino is an Arduino-compatible board with built-in Wi-Fi that is designed to help bring IoT ideas to life in a cost-effective manner.
I had the privilege of visiting UNICEF’s global procurement hub last week, a quite extraordinary experience. Based at the port in Copenhagen, the state of the art facility was donated by the Danish government…
Embedded Computing Boards have been around since the 1970's and come in many form factors such as VPX, COM Express, xTCA etc. depending upon the industry they are being deployed into. ECBs, also known…