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Inside Lyft’s Glow: How IoT Architecture Is Driving Smarter Ride Experiences
Lyft recently published how it built the Glow emblem, its newest Internet-of-Things (IoT) device. The Glow is actively rolling out in markets across the US, with over 30,000 live devices. Its architecture addresses many challenges in previous iterations, including a unified IoT middleware framework, robust provisioning and authentication mechanisms and advanced device control.
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Azure Event Grid Supports MQTT Last Will and Testament in Public Preview
Recently, Microsoft announced the public preview release of the Last Will and Testament (LWT) support in Azure Event Grid's MQTT broker capability, which complies with the MQTTv3.1.1 and MQTTv5 specifications.
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NVIDIA Introduces Metropolis Microservices for Jetson to Run AI Apps at the Edge
NVIDIA has expanded its Nvidia Metropolis Microservices Cloud-based AI solution to run on the NVIDIA Jetson IoT embedded platform, including support for video streaming and AI-based perception.
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Microsoft Azure Event Grid MQTT Protocol Support and Pull Message Delivery Are Now in Public Preview
Microsoft recently announced the public preview of bi-directional communication via MQTT version 5 and MQTT version 3.1.1 protocols for its Azure Event Grid service.
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Android Auto Now Supports IoT Apps Running in Cars
Android IoT apps enable running internet of things (IoT) apps in cars powered by Android Auto and Android Automotive. This will open up the possibility of controlling IoT devices like home security, lights, doors, and more, directly from within a car.
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Microsoft Brings Its Cloud Services and AI to the Edge
Microsoft recently announced the open-source release of Azure DeepStream Accelerator (ADA) in collaboration with Neal Analytics and NVIDIA, allowing developers to build Edge AI solutions with native Azure Services integration quickly.
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Google Open-Sources Secure ML Operating System KataOS
Google's AmbiML team recently open-sourced KataOS, a provably secure operating system for embedded ML hardware. KataOS is based on the seL4 microkernel and is implemented in Rust. Along with KataOS, Google is releasing Sparrow, a reference implementation of the operating system targeted for a secure hardware platform based on the RISC-V architecture.
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KubeCon NA 2022: Edge-Native Application Principles
Edge computing is an extension to cloud computing. Companies are interested in bringing their cloud-native infrastructure and applications to the edge. Kate Goldenring and Amar Kapadia spoke at KubeCon CloudNativeCon North America 2022 Conference about the progress made by the CNCF IoT Edge working group on principles to consider for edge-native applications.
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James Gosling Shares Wisdom Related to IoT at Devoxx: Code on the Edge and Its Hurdles
In his Devoxx talk, James Gosling, the father of Java, zooms in on the technicalities of writing code for devices on the network's edge. Based on his impressive career developing software for devices ranging from satellites to autonomous submarines, he provides practical advice for the moments when the hardware is on the bottom of the sea, or when minor errors could cause mayhem or even fatality.
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AWS IoT FleetWise Now Generally Available
AWS recently announced the general availability (GA) of its fully managed IoT FleetWise service, allowing customers to easily collect, transform, and transfer vehicle data to the cloud.
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New Stanford Compute-In-Memory Chip Promises to Bring Efficient AI to Low-Power Devices
In a paper recently published in Nature, Stanford researchers presented a new compute-in-memory (CIM) chip using resistive random-access memory (RRAM) that promises to bring energy efficient AI capabilities to edge devices.
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The Announcement of Discontinuing Google Cloud IoT Core Service Stirs the Community and Customers
Google Cloud IoT Core is a fully-managed service that allows customers to connect, manage, and ingest data from millions of globally dispersed devices quickly and securely. Recently, Google announced discontinuing the service - according to the documentation, the company will retire the service on the 16th of August, 2023.
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Amazon Introduces New APIs and SDKs for Alexa Skill Development
At Alexa Live 2022, Amazon announced new APIs and SDKs for Alexa skill developers, including the Alexa Ambient Home Dev Kit, the Alexa Connect Kit SDK for Matter, Universal Device Commands, and more.
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Node-RED 3 Improves Its Node Editor, Runtime Features, and Debugging
Node-RED, the flow-based visual programming environment originally developed by IBM and initially targeted at IoT applications, has reached version 3.0, bringing a number of improvements to the node editor, new features to control flows at runtime, and more.
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AWS Releases IoT ExpressLink: Cloud-Connectivity Software for Hardware Modules
Amazon recently announced the general availability of AWS IoT ExpressLink. The cloud-connectivity software supports wireless hardware modules to build IoT products that connect with cloud services.