Tag: Internet of Things
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6G Will Drive a Revolution on Smart Cities and IoT
We’ll have to wait at least 10 years before seeing the first specifications of 6G approved. When that time comes, things such as autonomous cars and drone delivery will likely be an everyday reality in our cities. Also, while in 2030, the world’s population is projected to reach 8.5 billion people, the number of IoT […]
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IoT Times: Intelligent Assets for Circular Economy
Pairing circular economy principles with information generated by billions of connected, intelligent devices, allows for innovation and sustainable use, extending product lifespan and helping create a secondary use for them. The Internet of Things is the core of today’s digitization, and its components provide the infrastructure to connect everything. The flow of information, materials, energy, and […]
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IoT Times: Top wireless standards for IoT devices
Most of the current machine-to-machine (M2M) connectivity is working over the 2G GPRS standard, requiring 2G EDGE coverage and SIM cards. As operators phase out some 2G networks, in part to reduce cost, new standards have emerged in the past five years: Zigbee, LoRa, LTE-M, Wi-Fi 802.11ah (HaLow) and 802.11af (White-Fi). Depending on the application, […]
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Your Baby Monitor Just Collapsed the Internet
Millions of unsecured connected devices, part of the Internet of Things (IoT), were responsible last Friday for collapsing the DNS servers that connect significant part of the Internet in the US, making sites such as Twitter, Amazon, Tumblr, Reddit, Spotify and Netflix unusable for several hours. Probably one of the most discussed topics over the […]